The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-18
STOMACH PUMP HAD ID BE USED ON
 BIRMINGHAM MAN
L. A. Barnes Says He Avoid ed Severe Operation-Fell
 Off 35 Pounds

T owe my life to Tanlac and if it
 hadn't been for it believe I would be
 in my grave today said L. A. Barnes.
 the well known barber, living at 40S1
 South Twentieth street, a few days
 ago in expressing his sincere grati-
 tCde to the wonderful new medicine,
 Tanlac, that is accomplishing such re-
 markable results in Birmingham.
 My troubles started IS years ago.
 he continued, when I began to suf-
 fer from nervous indigestion and with
 a bad stomach. I had always been a
 strong, healthy man up until then,
 but when my health did begin to go
 back on me I seemed to go all to
 pieces. Every day or so I would have
 to take some kind of medicine to get
 a little temporary relief Day in and
 day out I suffered and rocked along
 in the same old fix until my stomach
 just seemed to give out entirely. l ate
 but little. and what little 1 got down
 made my stomach feel full, just like 1t
 was filled up with lead. I was very
 nervous and was so weak I could just hardly creep to and from the shop. At
 night I would lay for hours unable
 to get to sleep and often wondered if
 I would ever be well again. In the morning I would get out of bed feel ing all fagged out with kind of blind and dizzy feeling about me and with a headache that made by head feel like it was just about ready to pop wide open.
 "One day the doctor told me my ap- pendix would have to come out. I was willing to go the limit if there was a chance to get well, so I had the oper- ation. But it didn't help my stomach one bit. Then the doctor began us- ing a stomach pump and about once a week for nearly three years I had to ,1x knows how I stood it. Finally one day my doctor told me there was one thing left to do and that was to have part of my stomach taken out. I decided ii could stand all the suffering I had gone through with I wouldn't mind the end, and I didn't care much when ii came.
 About a month ago I heard about Tanlac. and when I got my first bot tie it was like drowning man grab ping straw It saved me, tell you, there is no doubt about it. In only q few days I began to feel better and stronger. It soothed and seemed tc heal my stomach and increased my appetite. After I got so I could eat a little something I seemed to feel bet ter every day. Every dose seemed to help. Two bottles of it have helped me so I can't hardly realize I suffered like I did. sleep well now and am eating so much that sometimes fear might overdoj the thing, but I am not having a particle of trouble in digesting everything eat. Everything l tastes different to me, and oh, how I enjoy eating now! At the time be- gan taking Tanlac I was 35 pounds off my weight but I am gaining it all back and it won't be long. believe before my weight will be normal. 1T believe in giving credit where credit is du- Tanlac has certainly done more for me than I ever thought any medicine could do, and I want everybody to know about it."
 TanIac is sold in Birmingham ex- clusively by Jacobs Drug Store, and Patton-Pope Drug Co. It is also sold / in Ensley by the D. w. Morris Drug Co.,; in Bcssemer by, the Pegram Pat
 ton Drug Co.,; North Birmingham. Wal
 ker Drug Co.,; Pratt City, Gale Drug Co.-Adv.