Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-05
THIS WOMAN ONLY
WEIGHED 80 POUNDS;
SHE NOW WEIGHS 125
Suffered Is Years and Doc
tor Told Her She Couldn't
Get WeIE-After Taking Tan
lac, She Feels Well as She
Ever Has in Her Life.

Il was down to ten pitiful weight OF
ninety pounds when l began talking
Tanlac. but after taking seven bottles
Of the medicine l weighed one hundred
and fifteen pOunds-an actual gain of
twenty-five pounds" said Mrs Ellen Z.
Flaniken. residing at 916 Breedlove
street. Memphis. Tenn. Mrs FlanilSen
has lived in Memphis for thirty years
and has a large circle OF friends.
Twenty-Five years ago. continued
Mrs. Flaniken. Il began suffering with
constipation Then my stomach got out
OF order and later on my heart got 70
fluttering and giving me trouble, but at
that time I didn't realize IL was caused
oy the gas on my stomach | was treat
ed for heart trouble but the medicine did
me no good at all and became alarmed.
My heart would jump so l could hardly
breathe. Ny stomach just kept full of
gas all the time. feeling sometimes like
il would almost burst and was SO ten
der I could hardly bear my clothes 20
touch me. I would just belch all the
time and I got SO nervous 1 couldn't
sleep to do me any good and sometimes
for two or three nights at time l would
scarcely sleep any at adjust dOze
few minutes and then wake up again. !
vas tired all the time and December.
a year ago. when had COTTON so bad. /
was so weak 1 couldn't sweep my floor
and was so thin / looked like a frame.
l didn't think I could live much longer
and the doctor told me could never get
we'll / lived on liquid food and raw
eggs week in and week out and that,
and even water, hurt me Just as bad as
other things. All my neighbors know
what a dreadful condition I was in and
none of them thought 1 could live but
a short while longer
Now. this is just the condition was
in when read a statement given by En-
gineer Weeks. of Jacksonville. Florida.
who described my case il seems TO me,
better than I can myself l wrote to
him and asked him if he had really
gotten the benefits from Tanlac as stat
ed in the paper. and he wrote me that
every word was the truth. Then l
phoned the drug store to send me bot
tie and before 1 finished that bottle, l
NOTICED the pains and soreness in my
stomach were getting better. / kept on
taking Tanlac and improving until L
took seven bottles and when / weighed
! found that my weight had increased
from ninety pounds TO one hundred and
fifteen and felt as well as 1 ever did
in my life. This was about May or June
last and I'm still feeling just splendid N
every way. I'm eating most anything
] want and don't have any gas at all on
my stomach and what 1 thought was
heart trouble has vanished since 1 took
Tanlac and got so I could digest my
food. After 1 commenced TO improve, L
went to my doctor and told him l was
taking Taulac and he said IL was a good
tonic. / think il is the best medicine
there is and I am indeed thankful for
what IL has done for me I'm giving
this statement because 1 feel I owe II
10 others who are suffering as / did and
who may be skeptical like 1 was at first.
am as happy as person could be
over my benefits and my neighbOrs are
praising TanIac like 1 am for what they
see il has done for me"
TanIac il sold by one regularly estab-
ushed agency in every town--tAdvt)