The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-28
A Case Cited in Three Oaks, Michigan, that will
Interest Delicate Women.
The Effects of the Fever Were Felt in the Weakest
Spots.
A WARMING TO MOTHERS.
From the Press, Three Oaks, Mich.

What can bG more distressing than to see
girl dropping and fading in the spring time
of youth Instead of bright eyes, glowing,
rosy cheeks, and an elastic step, there
are dull eyes, pale, sallow, or greenish COM
plexion, and a languidness of step that be-
speak disease and an early death if proper
treatment is not promptly resorted to and
persisted in until the impoverished blood is
enriched, and the functions of life become
regular. Upon parents rests a great re-
spOnsibility at the time their daughters are
budding into womanhood. Ifyour daughter
is pale, complains of weakness, is tired
out" upon the slightest .exertion, if she is
troubled with headache, backache, or
pain in the side, if her temper is fitful
and her appetite poor, she is in con-
dition of extreme peril, a fit subject
for the development of that most dreaded
of all diseases ses+Consumption. If you
notice any of these symptoms lose no
time in procuring something that will as
sist the patient to develop properly and re-
gularly; that will enrich the blood, and re-
store health's roses. to- the cheeks bright
eyes and Iightness of step so that danger
of consumption and premature death will
be averted. Wise and prudent mothers will
insist on this, upon the approach of the
period of puberty, and thus avoid all
chances of disease or early decay.
At Three Oaks, Michigan, there lives a
woman with most remarkable history
The following story is given in her own
words.
DIR. WILLIAMS MEDICINE Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Ge1ttLemen:-" There is so much to say
about my case hardly know which would
be thought the most important. Seven years
ago had an attack of malarial fever, which
turned to the typhoid. After that L never
felt as well-my nervous system was COM
pletely unstrung. Five years ago last March
felt the first symptoms of rheumatism.
The next March had la grippe, which left
me with what the doctor pronounced muscu-
lar rheumatism. I became better, but in
November had another severe attack. 1t
settled in my back and right hip, and was
then called sciatica. l was blistered several
times without any relief. spent all of that
winter in bed. The next spring was able
to be out a little, but in August had an
other attack and was blistered again. This
time they kept the blisters sore for over two
weeks, but received no benefit.
After this had sixteen boils, or some
thing similar, on the right side. I COM
menced to get crooked and had to use cane
when walked. again got little better,
back gave out completely so that l could not
straighten. The doctor said it was the
breaking down of the bone structure of the
vertebra. l was nearly double. When
became able to walk was so bent over that
had to walk by pushing chair, as 1 could
not straighten. l could not sit and lean
back in rocker. There was a large bunch
about halfway down on my back which, at
times. painef ne terribly.
'::That far I took two boxes of Pink
Pills, but because they did not help me at
once 1 stopped taking them. The next win
ter I was IN bed, completely helpless.
to have my bed made. had chills every
night and my hands and feet were like ice
all the time. At last lost all control of my
nerves and if I commenced to laugh or cry
could not stop.
." was also subject to severe pains, in my
head and back which made me nearly wild,
and would have spells when it seemed as if
were falling and would become Iuncon-