Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-24
HOW STOUT GOT STOUT.
THE REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE
OF A RHEUMATIC SUFFERER.

All But Paralyzed-LOst His Flesh and
| Expected to Die-How He Got Well
and Strong.
! From the Mt. Sterling, ILL.,. Republican
+ Few men ere held in higher esteem
/ by their fellow townspeopie than Jas
w Stout of Ripley. Ill, and it is due
no doubt partly TO this popularity that
the record of the case has created such
| wide spread interest. While his ex-
| perience Is not without an equal. vet.
! 1T has been sufficiently remarkable
! 10 demand the attention of thousands
| OF people in Illinois, among whom
are numbered some of the most emf
nent physicians.
In january, 1893, Mr.. Stout was
/ stricken with what was then believed
/ to be sciatic rheumatism. and in a short
| time was barely able to hobbIe around
on clutches, and it seemed to his
! friends that his days were numbered.
Today he is a strong, hearty looking
man of 160 pounds.
! How this wonderful change was
/ brought about is most interesting as
told to representative of the Repub-
lican by Mr.. Stout himself:
i was afflicted with sciatic rheuma-
/ SioLA anu 4uLhOdRO OdnudrV. 1898.
The sciatic nerve on the right side be-
came affected in the hip, running down
to the ankle and across the small of
tie back to the left side, and soon nv
whole system became afflicted causing
me the most excruciating pain. In IL
very short time l become totally I'M
able to attend to any business what
ever, and the disease rapidly growing
worse had to take to my bed, where
L lay suffering almost continuously for
months the most agonizing torture.
scarcely being able to move or be NOV
ed. At one time l lay for six weeks
nat on my back, the slightest move
ment causing me such pain as almost
to throw me into commissions. ! cannot
! begin to express to you the intense pain
! suffered. l was drawn, by the severe
ness OF the malady, over to the left
side; lost my appetite, had no desire
for food, and what little | did eat |
! could not digest, the digestive organs
falling to perform their duty, adding
! greatly to my already precarious con-
dltlon. For weeks at time was I'M
able to eat or sleep, suffering all the
time most intensely and at times fear
ing l would lose my reason, and
would have welcomed death to relieve
me of my sufferings
consulted with local physicians and
some of the most eminent specialists of
The larger cities throught the country,
some treating me fer one thing and
some for another, hut without effect
and received no relief whatever One
physician told me l had double curva-
ture of the spine and would eventually
become paralyzed. spent hundreds
OF dollars in the short time | was af-
f1icted without receiving the least
benefit. My friends all thought there
was no hope for me whatever and said
that l must die, and |, myself. had al
most given up in despair, when in
september, 1898, about eight months
after was first afflicted, my attention
| was called to DR.. Williams Pink Pills
Tor Pale People. Without much hope,
l at once sent to c. +. Hickey d Co.
Druggists, Mt. Sterling, Ill, and pro-
cured some of the pills and Immediate
~ began taking them. Before long
became aware of great change Tor
the better in my almost hopeless con-
dltlon. My appetite came back and
my digestive organs performed their
usual functions properly. l took some
more and grew rapidly better-could
sit up in chair and my body began to
stralghten out; continued the treat
ment and in short time was able to
be about on crutches Nv recovery
from that time on was very rapid and
assured. My right leg, which before |
commenced this treatment, was numb
and dead, now experienced a pricking,
tIngllng sensation. / was email led to
throw away my crutches and walk up-
right once more among my fellows. a
better man physically than ever be-
fore. When first taken by the disease
| weighed 100 pounds, was reduced to
l15; l now weigh 166, more than | ever
weighed at any time in my life. Yes,
SIR, L lay my recovery entirely to Pink
! Pills
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