Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-24
MAN WITH A HISTORY
The Terrible Experience that B.fsll
John w. Thomas, Of Theta, Tenn.
AMirted with a Peculiar Disease. Ills BUdy
Covered with Lumps. Could Not Eat,
and Thought He Was Going to
Dry up-llis Recovery tho
Marvel oi Tennessee.

Marvel oi TenDessee.
fffcns Ms, NashrtNe f7tnt,l Bdanet.J
Mr.. Johh W, rh' mas, Jr., OF Thota,
| Tcna., is man with Il ttiost interest
| ing history. AT Ire ent he is inter.
estea in bloodcd horses, for which
! Maury 4 ,uniy is famTjsi
8, CIV peop'e, take it, said Mr..
| I'll, mas to o reporter who haa ked
him Tor the story of his life, "have
| ,,asScd through as remarkable chain
lteycnts as have AMI remained alive
70 tell the story.
~ was. along IN 1854, when | was
7 Tlrking II the silver mines of New
| Mexico. that my troubles began: at
1irst sl."ered with indigo ;tion, and SO
| acute did the pai S bee ome that went
| to Cslifoi mia for my health, but the
trip did me little good. and fully i'm
| pre- ,sed vita the icoa that my last day
had nearly dawned upon me, hur, led
back here to my Id home to die.
From simple indigestion my malad.
! developed into a chronic ability to
take any substantial food, | was barely
pro ;trat2d " spells of heart palpioa-
liol. This CO ndition continued int
ore year ago.
"On the nth of April. 1853, | sud.
denly collapsed and for days was un-
.oa cious, in fact | WIS not fully N.Y.
self until July. My condition on pt.
] was simply horrible: I weighed but
seventf pounds, whereas my normal
we ght is les rounds. All over my
b dy there we're Jumps from the size
Of a grape to the size of walnut, my
ngeIs wee crampod so that | could
not more than half strai2hten them. /
had ehtirely 10 t control Of my lover
limbs and my hand tremblcd so that |
could not drink without spillins the
Ii .uid. Nothing would remain on my
stomach, and it seemed that | must
dry up before many more days had
passed.
Il ma2e another * und of the physi.
clans, calling in obs after the ether,
and 10y the aid of m rphine and other
medicines they gaye me, managed to
1--we, though ba ely, through the fall"
Here MIR. Thomas di played his
arms, and just above the elbow of each
there was o laele irregular stain as
la"ge as the palm Of the hand and of a
purple color: the space covered by the
mark was sunkcn nearly to the bone.
That. said Mr.. Thomas, "i what the
doctors did by putt ng morphine into
me.
son the tn Of December. 1897. Just
eight months alter Ok permanently
to cd i shall never forget the date
my cousin, Jce Foster. of Carter's
Creek. called on me ana gave me box
OF DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People, saying they had cured him of
lartial paralysis. with which ! knew
he had all but died. | followed his
directions and began taking the M di-
cine. As result | stand be ore you
today the most sarpr sed man on
earth. Look at my hand-it is as
steady as yours: my face has a healthy
look about it; | have been attending to
my duties for q month. Since | began
taking the pills | have gained thirty
pt unds, and / am still gaining All
the knots have disappeared from my
body except this little kernel here ir
my palm. | have good appetite d
am almost Us strt ng as ever was
Yesterday rode thirty-seven miles
on horse back; | feel tired to-day, but
not sick. used to have from two to
four spells OF heart Ialpitation every
night. Since ! began the us, OF the
pills have had but fur spells alto.
lesher.
Il know positively that | was cured
by DIR. Williams Pink Pills, and | be.
lievc firmly that it i /, the most wonder
fui remedy in existence to-day, and
e; cry fact have presented to yon is
known to my ne'ghbors a, we'll as to
myself. ard they will certify to the
truth of my remarkable cure'
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People are q patent medicine in
the sense that name implies They
were first compounded as Il prescrip.
tion and used as such in general pr.c-
tice bv an minent physician So great
was their efficacy that it was deemed
wise to place them within the reach OF
al. They are now manufactured by
the DR.. Williams Medicine Co pany,
Schenectady, N. Y, ana are sold In
boxes never in loose fol m by the do en-
or hundred, and the public are eau
ticned against numel Gus limitations sold
in this shapel a. 20 cents a box. or six
boxes for S2.5 {. ard may he had OF all
druggists or direct by mail from DR..
Willams' Medicine Company.