Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-08-14
An Unprecedented
Gain in weiigIlt
A Trained Nurse Gained Fifty-three
Pounds by Using a Nerve Food.
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE
RESULTS ON RECORD.
From the Gaaette. Yonker,. N z.

ri don't look much like living skeleton
now, 90 l ? And yet two years ago weighed
just seventy-two pounds" said Mrs. ]. w
Coffey, of 55 Warburton Avenue Yonkers,
N, Y, to a reporter. And we agreed with
her, for she certainly looked anything but O
living skeleton, but rather bore the appear.
ance of plump and attractive lady in ex
cellent health and spirits Continuing she
said:
"I had lost my appetite and was wasting
away in flesh, losing some fifty pounds in @
few months. Doctors said / was threatened
with consumption. was under what was
regarded as frst-class medic, treatment,
hut it had apparently little or 10 effect, for
/ KEPT getting worse until i WAS so weak
that / 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 stimulants and medicines ali
seemed useless, and grew worse and worse
until at last l resolved to seek some new
remedy - one entirely out of the usual line
of pauseous drugs and doses of stuff Which
seemed to take away 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 1 bought box. The effect
from heir use was noticeable from the first
and soon appeared almost miraculous, for II
seemed pretty nearly like the raising of one
from the dead.
al soon commenced to eat something ]
had scarcely done before for weeks, and soon
began to gain in flesh and strength. / went
one d ITO the doctors Office and he was sur
prised at the change in me for the better.
had to confess that l had been taking the
pills, and ne was broad-minded enough to
advise me to continue what was evidently
doing me so much good. took, in all, six
boxes, and increased in weight from 70 tn
125 pounds, which is my regular and normal
weight"
"Are you sure the cure is permanent ?"
"Well, yes. My work is that of trained
nurse, which means. as you probably know,
irregular hours and at times great exhaus-
tion. During the two years since my re-
covery l have had m1uy 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 cures
effected by it. A friend of mine suffered
greatly at her monthly periods. One box
relieved and three boxes cared her. But
know of no case equal to niue, for my situ'
alton was critical, desperate and rlmosi
hopeless"
Mrs. Corey has lived III Yonl;ors for six
teen years, and for twelve years has followed
the business of attending the sick, cA cepting
only the period of her illness. she has
hundreds of acquaintances and friends who
know her to be capable and trns worthy.
Many of them know how very i'll she was
and how remarkable was her recov, ry. The
pills have large sale in Yonkers ard West
chester County, which will be greatly in.
creased as their merits become better known,
for they seem to be one Of the medical mar
vels Of the age.