The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-11-16
Mrs. M. |. Medders
Aged II, Gains ID
Pounds on Tan|aC
" | Feel Better Than I Have
in 20 Years . She Says
Volunteered as Nurse in
Civil War and Has Lived
a Life Of Usefulness.


felt in twenty years. was the re-
markable statement made a few days
ago by Mrs. NJ. l. Medders, who lives
at 541 Blythe Avenue, Memphis,
Tenn
Mrs. MedderS, who is now seventy
two years Of age, reared nineteen
children, eight Of her own and eleven
orphans, and her whole life has been
one of great sacrifice and usefulness.
At the beginning of the Civil War
she volunteered as a nurse and
many old soldiers who are living to-
day will remember the kind services
rendered by her during those four
years Of struggle.
She married soon after the war
and made her home in Senatobia,
Miss, where she lived for fifty years
until the death of her husband, when
she came to Memphis. Mrs. Med
der's husband was in the drug and
jeWelry business in Senatobia for
great many years and she is we'll
known in three counties around
Senatobia, as we'll as in Memphis, for
her work of charity and motherly
kindness.
'For twenty years." continued
Mrs. Medders, Il suffered with
swimming in my head and often had
spells something like vertigo. Two
years ago | began suffering with
pleurisy in both sides, and was down
in bed from May of last year until
February Of this year, not able to do
anything at all until Tanlac got me
up. l couldn't even ride on a street
car for at least eighteen months I'M
til Tanlac relieved me of that weak
and dizzy feeling.
81 had no appetite at all and lived
mostly on buttermilk for months and
months, l couldn't get any sound
sleep and would just doze and wake
up often during the night, and, of
course, | got very weak. For six
months my sides were a solid blister
where l used 1inements and plasters
trying to get relief from the awful
pains caused by the pleurisy My
case was a very stubborn one and
seemed to yield very little to the
treatment | was using.
81 think it was in February that
TanlaC began to be advertised in the
papers, and although [ had about
given up hope of ever getting up
again to where | was able to do any
thing, | decided to try it. | was will
ing to try anything to get little re-
lief and be able to sit up, if nothing
more. But, | tell you I was both sur
priSed and glad after using Tanlac a
few days to find it was helping me-
After | got through with my first
bottle [ had a good appetite and was
eating just anything | wanted and
lots of it, and | was much stronger
When [ finished my. third bottle l
was able to go back in the kitchen
and do most Of the cooking and |
could do nearly all of my housework,
TOO. My head feels better of that
swimming and clearer than it has in
twenty years. For years | could not
raise my head and look up to turn
off the electric lights, nor could l
climb up the stairs, but | can now.
While | realize a woman seventy two
years old cant be made into a girl
again, Tanlac has certainly made a
great change in me, and | never ex-
pected to feel as we'll any more as l
do now. My weight used to be one
hundred and tWenty-seven pounds,
but | got down to a hundred and
twelve and I'm sure I've gained -
back | had lost and maybe more.
don't have the pleurisy and lumbago
oft bnv and fool 10 m,