The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-11
Thought End Near and Told Wife to Put Children in
 Odd Fellows Home
so WEAK HE COULDN'T WALK IN OVER A YEAR
Was Almost a Living Skele- ton and Only Weighed 90
 Lbs.-Now Weighs 115

Wha is probably the most remarka ble indorse ment ever given a proprietary medicin was the statement made Thurs day of ,last week by H. J. Williams, coal min CT at the Tennessee Coal and Iron com pany, mine No, S. near Fair field, in hle Birmingham distrlcr.
 The story of his wonderful restoration to health wi as told in his own words, and is profoundly interesting. His statement follows;
 T am 54 years of age, and am the ia tfser of 16 children, eight living and eight dead. I came to Birmingham from east Tennessee, and have followed min ing for good many years.
 About two years ago l took sick. The doctors at first thought l had tape worm, then hookworm, and finally decid- ed it was bella gra. 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 I quit going to see them.
 T suffered from d sort of a numb feel ing all the time in my back, and was dizzy headed. I couldn't stoop over, or stand on my feet for any length of time. and couldn't hardly eat anything and nothing tasted good. In fact I was slowly starving to death
 tT lost all of my strength and fell off 45 pounds in weight. l used to weigh,
 
 town to where I only weighed 90 pounds, and was almost a walking skeleton.
 "I finally decided that there no more hope for me in this life, and I gave my ring to my wife, and told her to put the children in the Odd Fellows Home when died
 This is just the shape l wasY in, when one day my little daughter said: Papa, why don't you try that new medicine everybody is talking about; it has helped so many people, it might help your of course, 1 had no faith in anything, but just to please the family, l made one more trial and got this Tanlac. May the good Lord bless the day 1 got this medicine, for it was my salvation.
 T got relief from the first bottle, and l 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 1f5. It just looked like the more l took the better I got, and keep on picking up every day.
 T went over to the mines yesterday and made arrangement to go back to work. I am now strong enough to walk around wherever I want to go, some- thing l have not been able to do for over a year. and that is a fact. Tanlac mighty nigh raised me from the dead; that's what 1t done for me. If you don't believe what I have told you, just ask any of the men around mine No. &. and they will all tell you the fix l was in, and how much better off I am now.
 Thank God will soon be able to earn a living for my family, and I will owe it all to this medicine Tanlac. nave just written to a daughter of mine in LaFollette, Tenn. who needs medicine like this, and I want her to take 1t and get well.
 T don't believe now l ever had pel- lagra because I never did have any break ing out of any kind. I don't believe l had hookworm either, but whatever it was, the Tanlac has certainly fixed me. l don't reckon there ever was a medicine on earth like Tanlac. I will always bless the day I bought this medicine"
 Commenting on the above statement, which is probably the most remarkable that has ever before been given to newspaper, MT G. F. Willis, southern distributor of Tanlac, said;
 From the facts presented and from the best information obtainable regard ing the history of this mans trouble. firmly believe this to be a plain case or auto intoxication.
 "Auto intoxicatiDn according to high CT medical authorities, is the foundation of most disease. This condition, says l.. T. Cooper who has made an exhaus- tive study of this subject, is nothing more nor less than the slow self-poison- ing of the vital organs produced by the severe mental and physical strain that we are forced to endure, which renders the organs laine and inactive and per nits toxins-actual poisons-to be gen. erated within one's own body.
 "Bright's disease, stomach and intes- : final troubles catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes in fact may be called auto intoXication, or self-poisoning
 "Tanlac, the powerful reconstructive tonic. was designed especially to over come these troubles and it is MT. Cooper s theory that the Tanlac treatment is the direct remedy therefor"
 Tanlac is sold In Birmingham by Jacobs drug store and Patton-Pope Drug com- nany In Ensley by D. w. Morris Drug company; Bessemer, Pegram-Patton Drug company; North Birmingham, Walker Drug company: Pratt City, Gale Drug company; Fairfield c. J. Donald; Fair view, Thomas Drug company, and Wy lam Wylam pharmacy. It may also be obtained in all leading towns throughout the south from regularly established Tan lac agencies.-Adv.