The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-20
LIKE A MIRACLE
THE WONDERFUL RECOVERY OF
MINNESOTA MAN.
His Lower Limbs Had Become Useless
and He Dragged Himself Around
Like Snake.

While the story of the wonderful re-
covery of John Hunter in the little town
of Chico. CAL, from paralysis and loco
motor ataxia is still fresh in the mind
of everyone an account of another
equally remarkable and somewhat sim
liar case comes from Minnesota
Near Mortified, Mimi, lives P. A.
O'Brien. known to everybody round
about the town. In the fall of 1900 he
was obliged to give up work because OF
a disease which one of the physicians
who attended him called locomotor
ataxia and another paralysis. He suf-
fered Cor more than three years and.
for part of the time, lay in a harness
by the doctors direction. He grew
worse and the physicians pronounced
him incurable. But at last, like a
miracle, came his cure Let him tell
the story:
1T had been coming on slowly for
eight years." he says. "A cold numb
ness commenced in my feet and worked
upwards. 1t grew worse, and, in Mo-
vember, 1900 had to quit work. The
disease bent me over, and. when 1 at
tempted to straighten up, it felt as if
someone was cutting me in the pit of
the stomach with knife. 1 always felt
tired and could not rest at night my
feet felt as if there were needles stick
ing in them and my legs got so numb
that 1 could stick pins in them and
never feel it. They would shake so
sometimes that I could not hold them
still with both hands.
Then 1 got so that I could not walk
and I had to pull myself around like a
snake. When 1 got excited my heart
would palpitate and l would choke up.
My kidneys also became affected ana
caused me much pain
Didn't the doctors help you?" was
asked.
No. One of them had me on my
bed in a harness for several months, but
that did me no good They tried va
rious things. and. at last, said l could
not be cured "a. ,si.s
Yes, 1 fooled them. Ny sister saw
in the paper how Mr.. Peak, of Mil
waukee. Wis. had been cured of loco
motor ataxia and upon her advice be-
Pale People. The first box stopped
my pain so 1 could sleep good. 1t was
q week before I could move my feet the
least bit. but from that on 1 gained
pretty fast. 7 will never stop praising
DR.. Williams Pink Pills, for they have
made a new man of me-
The cure of Mr. O'Brien is only ad-
ditional proof that DR.. Williams Pink
Pills are not an ordinary medicine.
They are wonderful in their potency in
nervous troubles, small or great, and as
they are on sale in every drug store
throughout the country, they are within
reach of all. Because they cured such a
severe nervous disorder as that of Mr.
O'Brien proves the power of the rem
edy in lesser troubles. such as sciatica
neuralgia, nervous headache, st. Vitus
dance and nervous debility.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills have a
double action-on the blood and on the
nerves. 1t is not claimed that these
pills are a cure-all, but the very nature
of the remedy makes it efficacious in a
wider range of diseases than any other
1t is scientific preparation designed
to cure disease through a direct action
on the blood and nerves. Impoverished
blood and badly fed nerves are the
cause of nearly every ailment thai
effects mankind. If the blood is KEPT
pure. rich and red. and the nerves
strong and active, disease cannot obtain
fOothold.