The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-03-11
An Unprecedented
Gain in Weight
A Trained Nurse Gained Fifty=three
Pounds by Using a Nerve Food.
ONE OF The MOST REMARKABLE
RESULTS ON RECORD.
Nom fAe Gazette. Yonkers, NJ =.

al don't look much like living skeleton
now do And yet two years ago weighed
just seyenty-tvo pounds" said Mrs. J. W
Cof1ey, Of So Warburton Avenue, Yonlsers,
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 plump and attractive lady in ex-
celent health and spirits. Continuing she
said:
II had lost my appetite and was wasting
away in flesh, losing some fifty pounds in q
few months. Doctors said ! was threatened
with consumption. / was under what was
regarded as frst-class medical treatment,
but it had apparently little or no effect, for
/ kept getting worse until ! 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.
TONES and stimulants and medicines all
seemed useless, and 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 10 take away what little relish ]
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 q 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
soon commenced to eat, something 7
had scarcely done before for weeks, and soon
began to gain in flesh and strength ] went
one day to the doctors Office and he was sur.
Prised at the change in me for the better.
had TO confess that ! had been taking the
pills and he 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 ~ to
l25 pounds. which is my regular and normal
weight"
Are you sure the cure is permanent"
Well, yes. My work is that of a trained
nurse, which means as You probably know
irregular hours and at times great exhaus-
ton During. the two years since my re-
covery. | have had many engagements, and
through them all have continued in good
health l take pleasure in bearing testi.
mony to the remarkable power of this great
medical discovery. I know of other cures
effected by it. A friend Of mine suffered
greatly NJ ner monthly PERIODS. One box
relieved and three boxes cured her. But
know of no case equal to NINE 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 very i'll she was
md how remarkable was her recovery The
pills have large sale in Yonkers and West
chester County, which viii be greatly in
creased as their merits become better known
tor they seem TO be ono Of the medical mar
Sels Of the age.