Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-07-25
MIRACLE IN MISSOURI
The Achievements of Medical Science Fan
More Wonderful than the Magic
of the East
The Remarkable Experience of Postnas.
ter Woodson, of Panama, MOTOR
Ten Years Cripple-To-day
Well and Hearty Man.

Ter Woodson, OF Panama, MOTOR
Ten Years Cripple-To-day
Well and Hearty Man.
From the Kansas City Times)
The people of Rich Hill, Mo-, and vi.
entity have recently been startled by
seeming miracle of healing. For wears
one of the best-known men in Bates
and Vernon Counties has been Mark
M. Woodson, now postmaster at Pana-
ma, and brother OF ex-State Inspector
of Mines c. G. Woodson, of this city
The people of Rich Hill, where he for
merly resided, and of his present
home remember we'll the bent form,
misshapen almost from the semblance
of man, which has painfully bowed its
head half to earth and labored snail
like across the walks season after sea-
son, and when one day last month it
stl aightened to it's full height, threw
away the heavy butt of cane which for
years had been its only support from
total he plessness, and walked erect,
firmly. unhesitatingIy about the two
cities, people looked and wondered.
The story Of the remarkable case has
become the marvel of the two counties.
Exactly as Mr.. Woodson told it to a
Times reporter, it is here published:
Z OF ten years L nave SuUOf6u Un0
torments Of the damned and have been
auseless invalid: to-day | am well and
hearty man, free from almost every
touch Of pain. [ don't think man ever
suffered more acute and constant agony
than | have since 1884. The rheuma-
tism started then in my right knee,
and after weeks of suffering in bed [
was at last relieved suftic emily to
arise, but it was only to get about on
crutche5 for five years, the ailment
having settled in the joint. Despite
constant fl eatment of the most emf
nent physicians the rheumati,m grew
worse, and for the last four years |
have been compelled to go about bent
half toward the ground. In the winter
of 1S90-9l. after the rheumati. IN had
settled into its most chronic form,
went to Kansas City upon advice of my
b other, and for six weeks | was treat
ed in one of the largest and best-known
dispensaries of that city, but without
the slightest improvement. Before
came home [ secured strong galvanic
battery: this | used for months with
the same result. In August, 1897, |
went to ST. Louis, and there conferred
with the widely known DR.. Mudd, of
hospital practice fame, and DR.. Kale,
of the city hospital. None of them
would take my case with any hope of
affording me more than temporary re-
lief. and SO l came home, weak, doubled
with pain, helpless and Respondent.
About this time my attention was
called TO the account of a remarkabl
cure of locomotor ataxia, rheuma-
tism and paralysis by Dr. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People l ordered
some of the pills as an experiment.
When ] began to take them, the
rheumatism had developed into a
phase of paralysis: my leg, from the
thigh down. was cold all the time and
coulG not be Kept warm. In short
time the pills were gone, and so was
the cane. [ was able to attend to the
duties OF my office, to get about as a
well and strong man. | was free from
pain and I could enjoy sound and
restful nights sleep, something | had
not known for ten years. To-day am
practically and, [ firmly believe, per-
manently cured of my terrible and
agOnizing ailment. No magician of
the Far East ever wrought the mira
Gle with his wand that DR.. Williams
Pink Pills did for me-
TO verify the story beyond all ques-
ton of doubt, Mr. Woodson made the
following affidavit:
STATE OF MISSOURI, ! o.,
COUNTY OF BATES, %
7, M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn,
on my oath state that the following
statements are true and correct, as I
verify believe. M. M. WOOD5ON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Sd day of March, 1894
JOHN D. MOORE, Notary Public
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