The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-20
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.
90 % C7assste, Yonhsrs, " 2.

"I don't look much like living skeleton
now, do I? And yet two years ago weighed
just seventy-two pounds" said Mrs. j. W.
Cohey, Of IS Warburton Avenue, Yonkers,
N. Y, to a reporter. And we agreed with
her, for she certainly looked anything but
living skeleton, but rather bore the appear
ance Of plump and attractive lady in ex-
Cellent health and spirits. Continuing she
said;
ST had lest my appetite and was wasting
away in flesh, losing some fifty pounds in a
fow months. Doctors said was threatened
with consumption. / was under what was
regarded as hrst-class medical treatment
but IL 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.
aTonics 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 TO take away what little relish /
might perhaps otherwise have had for food.
A friend told me Of some wonderful cures
eneCted by DIR. 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.
al soon commenced to eat, something I
had scarcely done before for weeks, and soon
begnn 10 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 70 confess that / had been taking the
pilla and he was broad-minded enough to
advise me 10 continue what Was evidently
doing me 90 much good. / took, In all six
boxes and increased In weight from ~ TO
10 pounds, which is my regular and normal
~ re YOU sure the cure Is permanent"
"Well, yes. My work Is that Of o trained
nurse, which means, as you probably know,
irregular hours and Of times great exhaus-
ten. During the two years since my re-
coveEy have had many engagementS and
through them all have continued In good
health. take pleasure In bearing tesd-
m0ny 70 the remarkable power Of this great
medical discovery. ] know Of , other cures cures
greatly at her monthly periods. One box
relieved and three boxes cured her. But
know Of no case equal to mine, for my situ-
alton was critical, desperate and almost
hopeless"
Hrs. Coney has lived In Yonkers for six.
teen years and for twelve years has followed
Ire business Of attending the dok, excepting
only the period Of her illness. She has
hundreds Of aoquaintances and friends who
know her 70 be capable and Trustworthy.
Many Of them know how very i'll she was
and how remarkable was her recovery. The
pf1ls have q large sale In YOnkers and West
ehagter County, which viii be greatly In
800 q their merits become better known,
loF they aaem 70 be one Of the medical mar.
sels 81 th9aga.