The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 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
remarkabl and somewhat similar case
comes from Minnesota.
Near Northfield. Mimi, lives P A.,
. Brien, known to everybody round about
the town. In the fall of 1900 he was OBJ
liged to give up work, because of a dis
ease which one of the physicians who at
tended him called locomotor ataxia and
another paralysis. He suffered for more
than three years, and for part of the
time, lay In harness by the doctors di-
rect1on. He grew worse and the physi-
clans pronounced him incurable. But at
last like miracle, came his cure Let
him tell the story:
ut had been coming on slowly for eight
years." he says. "A cold numbness com
menCed in my feet and worked upwards
1t grew worse, and, in November, 1900,
had to quit work. The disease bent me
over, and when I attempted to straight
en- up it felt as if some one was cutting
me in the pit Of the stomach with knife.
I always felt tired and could not rest
at night, my feet felt as if there were
needles sticking in them and my legs
got so numb that I 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 l got so that I could not walk
and ! had to pull myself around like a
snake. When l got excited my heart
would palpitate and I would choke up.
My kidneys also became affected and
caused me much PAIN
Didn't the doctors help you?" was
asked.
mo. One of them had me on my bed
in harness for several months, but that
did me no good. They tried various
things and at last said 1 could not be
cured.
Yes, I fooled them. My sister saw in
the paper how Mr. Peak of Milwaukee.
Wis, had been cured of locomotor ataxia
and upon her advice I began taking DR.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, The
first box stopped my pain SO I could sleer
good. 1t was week before I could move
my feet the least Bit but from that on
I gained pretty fast. I will never stor
praising DR.. Williams Pink Pills, for they
have made Il new man Of me-"
The cure Of Mr.. OBrien is only adj
ditional proof that DR.. Williams Pini
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are wonderful in their potency in nervou:
troubles, small 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 ner
vous disorder that of Mr.. O'Brien
proves the power of the remedy in lessee
tiOupleS, Sucu as eSCldllCa, neuralgia
nervous %headache,, st. Vitus' dance +ane
nervous debility. = -. a.
- DR.. Williams Pink Pills have asdoubl
action--on the blood and on the nerves
It is not claimed that these pills are
cure-all but the very nature Of the rem
edy makes it efficacious in a wider rang,
of diseases than any other. It is a scien
tific preparation designed to cure dis
ease through direct action on the BLOOD
and nerves Impoverished blood and bad
ly fed nerves are the cause of nearly ever,
ailment that effects mankind. If TIL,
blood is kept pure rich and red, and tn,
nerves strong and active, disease eanno
obtain a foothold.