Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-11
AN UNPRECE DENTED
GAIN IN WEIGHT,
a Trained Nurse Gained Fitty-three
Pounds BY Using a Nerve Food.
0as d The Nest Rsmsskabls Rssslts On
Record.
From the Gazette. Yonkers. N. 2.

From the Gazette. Yonkers. N. Y.
II don't look much like living
skeleton now, do 1? And yet two years
ago weighed just q pounds said
Mrs J. w. Coffey, of IS Warburton
Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y, to q reporter.
And we agreed with her, for she GER
tainly looked anything but living
skeleton, but rather bore the appear
ance OF q plump and attractive lady In
excellent health and spirits. Continu-
ing she said:
Il had lost my appetite and was
wasting away in flesh, losing some
| fifty pounds In few months. Doctors
| said was threatened with consump-
ton. I was under what was regarded
| as. first-class medical treatment. but 1t
had apparently little or no effect, for
kept getting worse until was SO weak
that I could not attend to my house.
hold duties and could hardly walk. My
husband and everybody who saw me
/ thought surely that l would die, and
there seemed no help for me.
"Tonics and stimulants and medi-
cines all seemed useless, and l grew
worse and worse until at last resolved
to seek some new remedy-one entirely
out of the usual line of nauseOus drugs
and doses of stuff which seemed tC
take away what little relish I might
| perhaps otherwise have had for food
| A friend told me of some wonderful
cures effected by DIR. Williams Pini
Pills for Pale People and 1 bought q
box. The effect from their use was
| noticeable from the first and soon ap.
Feared almost miraculous, for it seemed
pretty nearly like the raising of one
from the dead.
Il soon commenced to eat, some
thing / had scarcely done before fol
weeks, and soon began to gain in flesF
and strength. / went one day to tn,
doctors Office and he was surprised a.
the change in me for the better. hat
to confess that l had been taking thu
pills, and he was broadminded enough
to advise me to continue what wa:
evidently doing me so much good.
took. in all. six boxes, and increased il
my regular and normal weight
| Are you sure the cure is permanent.
We'll, yes. My work is that of /;
trained nurse, which means, as yo,
probably know, irregular hours and a
l tlIllco SIcdL cAHsluStlOU. buIIIlS
the two years since my recovery have
had many engagements, and through
them all have continued in good health
l take pleasure in bearing testimony
to the remarkable power of this grea
medical discovery. know of othe
cures effected by it. A friend of min,
suffered greatly at her monthly
periods. One box relieved and three
boxes cured her But l know of NJ
case equal to mine, for my situation
was critical, desperate and almos
hopeless"
Mrs. Coffey has lived in Yonkers fol
16 years. and for IL years has followed
the business of attending the sick. ex
cepting only the period of her illness
She has hundreds of acquaintance.
and friends who know her to bt
capable and trustworthy. Many o.
them know how very ill she was ani
how remarkable was her recovery. The
pills have a large sale in Yonkers ant
Westminster county, which will bt
greatly increased as their merits be
come better known, for they seem to be
one of the medical marvels of the age
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain in q
condensed form, all the elements nee.
essary to give new life and richness t.
the blood and restore shattered nerves
They are an unfailing specific for such
diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, ST. Vitus' dance. sciatica
! neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous head
ache, the after effect of la grippe. pal
! pitation of the heart. pale and sallow
compilations, all forms of weakness
either in male or female. Pink Pills
are sold by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, SO cents
a box, or six boxes for $2.5O-(they are
never sold in bulk or by the 1907 by
addressing Dr. Williams Medicine
Company, Schenectady N. Y.