Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-24
TEXAS WOMAN
GAINS q POUNDS
Mrs. Pierce's Recovery Is a
Great Surprise to Her
Many Friends.
ALMOST NERVOUS WRECK
Doesn't Believe She Would
Have Lived If 1t Hadn't
Been for Tanlac.

81 have actually gained twenty-one
and a half pounds and my recovery
has been great surprise to many
who knew about my dreadful condi-
ton" said Mrs. Ruby Pierce. 1918
Avenue G, Galveston, Texas, in one
of the most remarkable statements
yet published in connection with Tan
lac.
For about a year" continued Mrs.
Pierce. II suffered from catarrh of
the stomach and nervous Indigestion.
Nothing | ate gave me any nourish-
ment and | continually lost weight
and strength. | couldn't sleep much,
my stomach was weak. and | got up
I'm the mornings nauseated and would
vomit up great quantities of phlegm.
Before my trouble started | weighed
one hundred and ten younds, but |
kept falling off until | weighed only
eighty-twO, and was scarcely more
than a frame of skin and bones. got
so bad off the only nourishment |
could take was one raw egg and n
little orange juice and was almost a
complete nervous and physical wreck.
81 became so emaciated and weak
that | had to give up and take to my
bed. | couldn't wait on myself and
had to be dressed and have my hair
cOmbed like a baby. | was examined
several different times and was told
each time that nothing could be done
that would help me. My parents and
friends were alarmed about me and
cried and screamed for mother. be-
cause | thought was dying. No one
can imagine my awful feelings as |
lay there in bed helpless, knowing
my case had been pronounced hope
less and that my life seemed to be
just hanging by thread.
ut seemed like everybody had
given me up except mother-mothers
never lose hope as long as there's life
and she got to talking to me about
Tanlac and begged me to try It,
refused for n week but mother was
so insistent that finally told her to
send for a bottle and | would take It.
| didn't believe II would help me. but
nothing else had ever done me any
good, and / took 1t just to please
mother. | had been in bed nine weeks
when | began taking Tanlac and It
must have been a Godsend to me. 1t
acted almost like a miracle and in one
weeks time ! was out of bed. I got
so | could eat and relish my meals.
my strength came back rapidly and
soon got able TO dress myself. sweep
up my room and go downtown. / am
now on my fifth bottle of Tanlac and
II weigh one hundred and three
pounds and a half-nearly as much
as | did before | got sick-and I'm
gaining in health and weight every
day. | don't have any more of those
awful nervous attacks. | sleep good
every night and am as hungry as a
bear all the time. ! can eat most any
thing | want and can hardly eat
enough to satisfy my appetite.
doubt if / would have lived much
longer If mother hadn't persuaded me
to take Tanlac and my recovery is the
talk of the neighborhood. / don't
hesitate to tell anybody what il has
done for me and II my statement Is
likely to helm others find relief I'm
glad to give it,"
Tanlac is sold in Tulsa exclusively
by Roy Getman's Rexall Drug store.
Quaker Drug company and Puritan
Drug company, under the personal di-
rection of a special Tanlac representa-
| tive.