Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-15
Morphine Habit Conquered.
A YOUNG FARMERS BATTLE
WITH DISEASE LED TO
USE OF THE DRUG.
He Fought HeroIcally~ arIu ina'ly Found
q . Cure for Both the Disease and the
Habit-What He Has to Say About 1t

From the Register, lola. Kansas.
Two years ago last May, Eugene
Ihrig, young farmer living near lola,
Kan, suffered a severe attack of sci
at1ca, resulting from a sprain followed
by exposure in wet weather. Four OF
the best physicians Of the town at
tended him at different times, but in
spite of all they could do he grew
steadily worse. For nine months he
suffered as only the vict ms of this
malady can suffer. During three
months of that time he was confined
to his bed, and for five months could
not walk except on crlitches, on &C
count of the excruciating pain in his
hips. Finally his condition became so
bad that he could not walk at all, and
the physicia ms could hold out but little
hope of recovery.
After lying thus for two weeks, he
was induced bysa friend to begin TAX
Ing DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People. HeNhad no faith in them, but
everything else had failed, and so in
desperation he tried these. In week
ne began to- suffer less and to regain
ms appetite Within two weeks he
could get around on crutches, and be-
ne couia walk with only the aid Of g.
cane. Within a month he could walk
Without any assistance, and six weeks
aIter ne TOOK the first pill he was do
ing a mans Work on the farm. 1t is
nearly year now since he began TAX
ing the medicine, and he regards him
SER as completely cured, as he has no
recurrence OF Z his old malady, except
nallY>slight twinges during wet
weather, and these readily yield to a
Few doses gf the pills.
But the tpills have done even more
I LOT MN th1an to cure him of sciatica.
They have Toured him of the morphine
habit. In order to relieve the fierce
pains Of r1euma tism. upon the ADVICE
OF physician. he began taking NOR
phine. The habit soon became fixed,
and at thei time he began taking Pink
Pills his system had become SO per-
meated with the poison that he could
take half a teaspoOnful at single
dose. His, last doctor had told him
that he could never be cured Of sciatica
so long as he continued to take the
morphine, and he tried heroically to
break the habit, but without avail.
When he began taking Pink Pills he
still continued the use Of the morphine,
taking 1T iboth internally and by in
lection. Nut in a little while he found
that he no longer wanted it, and from
that day Ito this he has not had the
slightest drawing for the drug. He re-
CARDS his ideliverance from the NOR
phine habit as no less boon than the
cure of his stiatica, and he gives all
the credit for both to Pink Pills. To
Mr.. Ihrig made the following state
ment: (SignedD EUGENE IHRIG.
Sworn and subscribed to before me.
a notary public, in and for the county
Of Allen, state of Kansas, this 18th day
of January, 1895.
]. H. VANNUYS, Notary Public.
hereby certify that I have personal
knowledge of tsle case above cited, and
that the stateG1ents made in the fore
going article ire true
(Signed) W. ]. EVANS, Druggist.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain all
the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves. They are sold in
boxes (never in loose form, by the dozen
or hundred) at so cents a box, or six
boxes for $3.50, and may be had of all
druggists or directly by mail from DIR.
Williams Med: Co., Schenectady, N. Y.