Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-22
MRS. SMART WAS
UNABLE TO WALkA
STEP IN TEN YEARS
Now Actually Does Own
Homework After Taking
TanIac-Suffered Eight
cen Years.

Sometimes I have just prayed t.
be taken out of my awful suffer-
ing," said Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Smart of $50 Minnesota Ave-, Kan
sas City, Kansas, while in G. Q.
Lakes drug store, recently, "and
I believe Tanlac was a God-send
to me-" Mrs. Smart has resided in
Kansas City for the past eight
years.
"For eighteen years." continued
Mrs. Smart in describing her case.
II have been practically an invalid
on account of rheumatism. For ten
years of this time l was just as
helpless as a baby-could not walk
a step-and had to be wheeled
about in an invalid chair. Every
bone, joint and muscle in my body
seemed to be affected and ached
constantly, and sometimes the pain
was so great that I would have nerv-
Gus chills from it. My limbs and
joints would swell to twice their
normal size and were so stiff and
painful that when / was lifted
around I couldn't help but scream.
My leaders and muscles felt like
they were tied in knots and my
hands were drawn until they were
closed tight; I could not open them
and my fingers were all swollen out
of shape. The leaders in my neck
were drawn until my head was
pulled away over to one side and l
could hardly move it. The rheuma-
tism seemed to be getting around
my heart, too, as / had severe pains
all through my left side. For ten
years was not even able to raise
my hands to comb my hair and, for
more than four years, l couldn't lay
on my left side on account of the
pain, and my feet were swollen at
times until it seemed like they
would burst. / was just as white as
a sheet and had fallen off in weight
until l was scarcely more than a
frame.
81 spent thousands of dollars for
all kinds of treatment and med
icines. We even sold our farm and
used the money to pay doctor and
drug bills, but nothing ever seemed
to do me much good. Words can
only partially describe what I suf-
fered during those eighteen years.
I had been told there was no hope
for me, and as there seemed to be
little chance for me to ever-g get any
better, / sometimes prayed to be
taken out of my misery. Seeing
Tanlac recommended so highly I
decided to make one more effort
and before l finished my first bottle
I noticed an improvement. / am
now on my fifth bottle and it has
acted more like miracle than med
icine with me. The swelling is all
gone out of my limbs, my leaders
and muscles have relaxed and l
have i'm proved in every way until
I can now do all my housework. /
have gained several pounds in
weight, and really feel stronger and
better than I have at any time since
I was taken down eighteen years
ago. My stomach was in such a bad
condition from taking so much
strong medicine that / couldn't eat
more than one meal a day, and l
suffered from Indigestion all the
time. But now l am eating three
good meals a day and never have
any trouble from it. Tanlac seems
to be driving the rheumatism en-
tirely out of my system, as, ! am
getting better all the time. I be-
lieve it will soon be gone and l will
praise Tanlac the longest day l
live."
Tanlac is sold in Omaha by all
Sherman & Mcconnell Drug Com
pany's stores, Harvard Pharmacy,
West End Pharmacy, in South
Omaha by Meany Drug Co., in Ben
son by Chas. H. Sprague, and the
leading druggist in every towa=s
Adv.