Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-25
THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE.
Great Advances Made in the Last
Few Years.
The Story Of a Man Who Has Lately Been
Cured Of that Terrible Disease. locomo-
tor Ataxia.
From the Phila lelphia Record. }


Very little is heard by the general public
of the great discoveries in medicine, and the
countless scores of lives that are saved by
the advancing knowledge of medical science.
Diseases, which q few years ago batfied the
most eminent physicians and were believed
10 be absolutely incurable .succumb today as
readily as the most trifiing ailment. No
one, perhaps, has better cause to appreciate
this than Richard A. Willisn of Bustleton,
Pa. Mr.. William is a retired calico print
manufacturer, and before his health began
10 trouble him he carried on an extensive
business. both in Hustleton and Holmes
burg. He is fifty-three years of age, has
travelled widely, and is a man of more than
ordinary education and intelligence. A re-
porter who visited him found him strolling
leisurely through the grounds surrounding
his pleasant hume. Mr.. William was at
first deci iedly averse to the unwelcome
publicity which he felt would follow the
story of his case in the newspapers. Realiz-
ing, however, that it might be the means of
bringing relief TO others who were suffering
as he had suffered he tiually consented.
IF it had not been for one of the recent
discoveries of medical science, believe |
would be lying helpless in bed instead of
enjoying this stroll" he began. my trou-
bles really date back to several severe falls
Irectived when young man, but | suffered
no great inconvenience until 1888. My first
sensation was great difficulty in walking.
As this feeling grew more intense l finally
called in well known physician of Holmes
burg, who Immediately told me that l had
locomotor ataxia, and placed me under
active treatment. Instead of getting better
| seemed to grow worse. and was scarcely
able to get around. year after became
his patient he told me that he would have
to give me up. He gave me to understand
| that | must resign myself to a condition of
utter helplessness until death came to my
relief. AT last | got so that l could not
walk at all my limbs went back on me en-
tirely and was Just able to sit up. | then
called in DR.. Bull then in Philadelphia,
and now a resident of Chicago. He recon-
mended sun-baths, and had sun-parlor
erected for the purpose, but my trouble did
not Weld to such treatment, and finally
abandoned it. In April last, received a
latter from Mr. Grantier, a friend of
mine in Elmira, n. Y, telling me how n new
medicine called DR.. Williams Pink Pills
was performing astonishing cures in the
severest nerve diseases, and advising me to
give them a trial Not knowing the scien-
,ific nature of DR.. Williams remedy, and
believing that it was an ordinary medicine,
| was as first inclined not to bother with it,
But reflected that in my miserable condi-
| ton it could do me no harm at least and |
sent to the drug store and purchased one
box. After the third box l began to feel
some benefit. My whole system seemed
better. l kept taking the pills. and one
day to my great joy l discovered that
could walk little. From that time on my
recovery has been rapid. Now, after using
Pink Pills for five months, from condition
of utter helplessness am able to walk one
mile every day without inconvenience.
take my one mile spin around the house
every day now. haven't walked that dis
lance before for three years. l find that
can ascend the billy road which leads tC
our house with ease. / noticed a genera
improvement in my health from week tc
week, and my feet no longer feel as though
they were weighted down with lead. l as
clbe this wonderful change solely to Pink
Pills. My mother is very enthusiastic ovel
the pills, and thinks DR.. Williams ought tc
have his great discovery proclaimed from
the housetops.
al VI III w lllalls lin lllt
shows that they contain, in condensed
form, all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood and re
store shattered nerves. They are an un
failing specific for such diseases as locomo
tor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, ner
vous headache, the after effect of la grippe
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
compilations, all forms of weakness eithel
in male or female, and all diseases resulting
from vitisted humors in the blood. PINK
Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sen,
post paid on receipt of price, go cents 8
box, or six boxes for So 50-they are never
sold in bulk or by the 1907 by addressing
DR.. Williims' Medicine Co., Schenectady
N. Y, or Brockyille, Ont.