Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-12
Unprecedented
Gain In Weight
A Trained Nurse Gained Fifty-three
Pounds by Using a Nerve Food.
one OF THE MOST REMARKABLE
RESULTS on RECORD.
From TIE cas.tss. yonksrs. n: 2:

aI don't look much like q living skeleton
now, do n And yet years ago I weighed
Just seventyt two pounds" said Mrs. J. w.
Coffey, of So Warbufton Avenue, Yonkers,
N. Y, to a reporter. And we agreed with
her, for she certainly looked anything but q
living skeleton, but rather bore the appear
ance Of a plump and attractive lady in ex-
cellent health and spirits. Continuing she
said:
II had lost my appetite and was wasting
away in flesh, losing some fifty pounds in o
few months. Doctors said / was threatened
with consumption. ! was under what was
regarded as first-class medical treatment,
but it had apparently little or no effect, for
1 kept getting worse until I was SO weak
that I could not attend to my household
duties and could hardly walk. My husband
and everybody who saw me thought surely
that / would die, and there seemed no help
for me.
"Tonics and stimulsnts and medicines all
seemed useless, and I grew worse and worse
until at last I resolved to seek some new
remedy one entirely out Of the usual line
of nauseous drugs and doses of stuff which
seemed to take way what little relish ]
might perhaps otherwise have had for food.
A friend told me Of some wonderful cures
effected by DIR. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People and l bought a box. The effect
from their use was noticeable from the first
and soon appeared almost miraculous, for 1t
seemed pretty nearly like the raising Of one
from, tho daad
al soon commenced to eat, something ]
had scarcely done before for weeks, and soon
began TO gain In flesh and strength. | went
one day to the doctors Office and he was sur.
prised at the change In me for the better. /
had to confess that | had been taking. the
pills, and he was broad minded 0 70
advise me to continue what was evidently
doing me so much good. ! took, In all, six
boxes, and increased in weight from 70 to
125 pounds, which is my regular and normal
weight"
"Are you sure the cure Is permanent"
"Well, yes. Ny work is that Of a trained
nurse, which means, as you probably know,
irregular hours and Of times great exhaaI-
ton. During the two years since my re.
covery I have had many engagements, and
through them all have continued In good
health. / take pleasure in bearing testi-
mony to the remarkable power of this great
medical discovery. / know of other cnres
effected by 1t. A friend Of mine suffered
greatly at her monthly periods: One box
relieved and three boxes cured her. But |
know Of no case equal to mine, for my stu
alton was critical, desperate and almost
hopeless"
Mrs. Cofey has lived in Yonkers for six.
teen years, and for twelve years has followed
the business Of attending the sick, excepting
only the period Of her illness. She has
hundreds Of acquaintsnces and friends who
know her to be capable and trustworthy.
Many of them know how very i'll she waa
and how remarkable was her recovery, The
pills have q large sale In Yonkers and West
chester County, which viii be greatly in
creased as their merits become better known,
for they seem to be one Of the medical nar-
vels Of the age.