The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-04-02
Am Unprecedented
Gain in W ghi
A Trained Nurse, Gained Fifty=three
Pounds by Using a Nerve Food.
One OF TINE MOST REMARKABLE .
RESULTS ON RECORD,
From the Gazette, Yonksrs, ". Y.

II don't look much like living Skeleton
now, do ? And yet two years ago weighed
Just seventy-two pounds" said Mrs. j. w
Coffey, of 90 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers
N. y, to 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 a
few months. Doctors said l vas threatened
with consumption. I was uuder what was
regarded as frst-class medical treatment,
but it had apparently little or no effect, for
I kept getting worse until J. was so weak
that [ could not attend to my household
duties and could hardly walk. My husband
and everybody who saw me shought surely
that would die, and there seemed no help
for me.
"Tonics and stimulants and medicines all
seemed useless, and I grew worse and worse
until at last l resolved to seek some new
remedy - one entirely out Of the usual line
of nauseous drugs and doses of stuff which
seemed to take away what little relish I
might perhaps otherwise have had for food.
A friend told me of some wonderful cures
effected by DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People and bought box. The effect
from their use was noticeable from the first
and soon appeared almost miraculous, for it
seemed pretty nearly like the raising of one
from the dead.
az soon commenced to eat, something I
had scarcely done before for weeks, and soon
began to gain in flesh and strength. I went
one day to the doctors Office and he was sur
prised at the change in me for the better. I
had to confess that l had been taking the
pills, and he was broad-minded enough to
advise me to continue what was evidently
doing me go much good. I took, in all, six
125 pounds, which is my regular and normal
weight"
care 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-
ton. During the two years since my re-
covery 1 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 cures
effected by it. 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. Coffey 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 acquaintance and friends who
know her to be capable and trustworthy
Many of them know how verv i'll she was
and how remarkable was her recovery. The
pills have large sale in Yonkers and 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
wells of the age