The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-01
Thought End Near and Told Wife to Put Children in
 Odd Fellows Home
so WEAK HE COULDN'T WALK FOR OVERAYEAR
Was Almost Walking Skeleton and Only Weighed 90-Now
 Weighs 115

What is probably the most remarkable indorsement ever given proprietary med icine was the statement made Thursday of last week by H. J. Williams, coal miner at the Tennessee Coal and Iron company mine, No. s, near Fairfield, Ala, in the Birmingham district.
 The story of his wonderful restoration to health was told in his own words, and Is profoundly interesting. His statement follows:
 q am 54 years of age, and am the fatherof 16 children, eight living andeight dead. I came to Birmingham from east Tennessee, and have followed mining for d good many years.
 About two years ago I took sick. The doctors at first thought I had tapeworm, then hookworul, and finally decided it was pelagra. l took treatment from a well-known Alabama pellagra cure but got no benefit. The doctors finally told me they couldn't do me any good, and quit going to sec them
 'l suffered from sort of a numb feel ing in my lack, and was dizzy-headed. l couldn't stoop CN e: or stand on my feet for any lcnetI Of time. and couldn't t.aI d. ly eat anything ar6 nothing tasted good. In fact, I was slowly starving to death.
 q lost all of my strength and fell off 45 pounds in weight I used to weigh, when was well, 1S3 pounds, and got down to where l only weighed 90 pounds, and was almost walking skelton
 T finally decided that there was no hope for me in this life. and I gave my ring to my wife sn6 told her to put the chill dren in the Odd Fellows home when I died
 This is Just the shape was in, when Iou coli why don't you try that new medicine everybody is talking about? It has helped so many people, it might help you.' Of course, I had no faith in anything, but to please the family I made one more trial and got this Tanlac May the good Lord bless the day I gotthis medicine for it was my salvation. v got relief from the first bottle, and ] began to eat and pick up right from the start. I am now on my fifth bottle and have actually gained back 25 pounds and now weigh 115 It justlooked like the more I took the better I got and l keep on picking up every day.
 T went over to the mines yesterday and made arrangement to go back to work. am now strong enough to walk around wherever 1 want to go, something haven't been able to do for over year, and that is a fact Tanlac mighty nigh raised me from the dead-thats what it done for me. If you don't believe what have told you, just ask any of the men around mine No 8, and they will all tell you the fix I was in, and how much better off I am now.
 Thank God, I will soon be able to earn living for my family, and 1 owe it all to this medicine. Tanlac. I have Just written to a daughter of mine in La Toilette, Tenn, who needs a medicine like this, and I want her to take it and get well.
 
 T don't believe now that I ever had pellagra, because I never did have any breaking out of any kind. I don't be- lieve l had hookworm, either, but what ever it was. this Tanlac has certainly fixed me. I don't reckon there ever was a medicine on earth like Tanlac I will always bless the day I bought this medi- cine"
 Commenting on the above statement which is probably the most remarka be that has ever before been given to a newspaper. MT. G. F. Willis, southern distributor of Tanlac. said:
 From the facts presented and from the best information obtainable regarding the history of this mans trouble, I firm ly believe this to be a plain case of auto- intoxication.
 Auto-intoxication according to higher medical authorities, is the foundation of most diseases. This condition says l.. T. Cooper. who has made an exhaustive eeuuy VI tHiS supJect, IS nothing more or less than the slow self-poisoning of the vital organs produced by the severe men, tai and physical strain that we are forced to endure, which renders the organs lame and inactive and permits toxins actual poisons to be generated within ones own body
 Brfght's disease, stomach and intes- tinal troubles, catarrahal inflammation or the mucous membrane, in fact may be called auto-intoxcation, or self-poisonine
 Tanlac, the powerful reconst1uctive tonic, was designed especially to over come these troubles, and 1t is Mir Cooper's theory that the Tanlac treatment is the direct remedy for.'
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham bv Pat ton-Pope company and Jacobs Drug store. In Ensley by D. w Morris Drug company, and at Bessemer by Pegram- Patton Drug company.-Ady.