Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-01-30
4 KOKoMO S%CHOOLMAsTER.
r,om me T,-ibunf, Kokomo, Ind.

From the IftDuftfi hOhOhtO, "u'
Mr., John Leahy, q well known school,
teacher of Kokomo, Indiana, makes the iol-
lowing well written statement regarding
his illness from rheumatism and o compli-
cation Of diseases, and subsequent cure.
''Three years ago, when l was 50 years
old. I was attacked with rheumatism, accom-
panied with marked and increasing disturb
suces of the nervous system, pains In the
head, and most serious Of all, symptoms OF
organic heart trouble.
1.-THE cardiac Inflammation increased as
the rheumatism progressed, and 1t was nota
great while before the heart trouble assumed
the chronic form. My brain was much dis
turbed and my physician was alarmed, fear
ing meningitis, as the articular infiamma-
ton diminished while the cerebral distur-
bance increased. But was spared this ad-
dltional iniiction, l nm thankful to say, for
again the Joints began to swell, and the pain
in the head to subside, Though it settled into
a dull rheumatic headache, which no skill OF
the physician could relieve.
"Of course, during the early stages OF the
disease, l was confined to bed. Then l got
up and tried TO move around a little, and
really l think l became used TO the pain.
ut was In the spring of 1893 when ! wal
first afflicted. For three years the disease
continued, during which time was attended
by the best physicians in the state, some OF
whom are considered at the head Of their
profession in the west. These gentlemen,
though jealous, and splendid diagnosticians,
could not help me. They could all describe
my disease, and tell me better now ielt
than l could myself, but their remedies had
ma afart IN ma NyhntnVpr EnQ n faAr1nI
sufferer from insomnia, and the nostr,ms
which l took to supcrinduce sleep were le-
gion. In addition to other troubles, my
stomach gave out altogether, / think prob
ably from the preparation Of salicylic acid,
with which | had been abundantly dosed. l
could not assimilate food, and lost flesh un-
til l became almost a skeleton. My con-
dition of nerves at this time cannot be de-
scribed. Terrors by night and terrors by
" utterly unreal, they were just as tor
menting as though they had the most ma
terial existence.
$50 matters continued until the spring Of
this year March, 1886 l was still failing and
becoming more of q wreck every day, when
a friend Of mine, q druggist in Logansport,
Indiana, recommended me to try DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, saying
that they had recently cured u customer OF
HIS VIII ldu bSSu 4 AAANNSNf ~AN AA
as bad plight as I was.
~ did not at once act on my friends
recommendation, but after two or three
days did so and bought a supply.
"Now there Is no ~exaggeration in what l
am about to write, for it is the honest truth,
! had not taken DR.. Williams Pink Pills
two days when began to get relief. First
of all my nervousness and that dull, wicked
headache showed signs of abatlng, then my
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| stomach and kidneys began to do their
work once more, my tongue became clean,
all foulness disappearing, and better than
| all my heart became normal in its action.
Before l had taken four boxes l was a
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(Signed) JOHN LEAHY.'
Witness: JAMES LEAHY.
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