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Taunton Courier. Bristol and Exeter Journal, and Western Advertiser. Wednesday 18 Oct 1893
Page 3 Column 4
A SOMERSET MIRACLE.
WONDERFULOCCURRENCE AT TAUNTON.
(RESULT OF INQUIRY BY A REPORTER.)
Rowbarton, a suburb of Taunton, has, during the last few years, grown at a tremendous pace. This portion of the town is, to a great extent, populated by people employed on the Great Western Railway or at the Newton Electrical Works. Among the streets at Rowbarton is one named William-street, and in this street, at No. 33, lived a Mrs. LAWLEY, wife of a fitter employed at the Newton Electrical Works. Mrs. LAWLEY had been attacked with rheumatism in May, and the malady stuck to her for three months to such an extent that it was painful even to see her walking or crawling about. She tried several remedies, professed to be a sure and quick cure for rheumatism, but without avail. At length she was induced to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and was at once must miraculously cured. Having become aware of these facts, a reporter interviewed Mrs. LAWLEY, and she most willingly told the story of the wonderful cure which had been effected, in order, as she put it, to benefit other people who might be suffering from the same dreadful and most painful disease.
Mrs. LAWLEY, on the reporter knocking, was on the doorstep, awaiting admission, with a baby in her arms, but our representative, although taking a good look at her, never thought for a moment that the active woman whom he saw was she who a month ago was suffering from rheumatism so acutely as to render her walking about almost impossible. On explaining who he was, our reporter was at once asked to go inside, where in a cosy room a chair was placed for him, and Mrs. LAWLEY told her story so well that very few questions were necessary. She is a comparatively young woman, who looked as if it was a very long time since she had a day's illness, but her story will show that for three months she must have endured most acute agony. She said she had lived the greater part of her life at Wolverhampton, but came to Taunton about eighteen months ago. In May she became aware of a swelling in one of her feet, accompanied by rheumatic pains, and gradually this became a great deal worse, until she felt most agonising pains not only in her feet but in her legs and knees. She also felt some pain in her hands and arms, but this was not so acute. The pains continued for three months and gradually got worse. During the greater part of that time she was unable to do anything in the house. She could not find any rest in bed, and repeatedly got up during the night, lit the fire and sat before it. She could get no sleep, and her appetite was very bad. “The only thing that relieved me at all,” she said, “was to put my feet in boiling hot water, and this gave me some relief, but the pain soon came on again as bad as ever.” After sitting down she had some difficulty in walking when she got up. Asked if she had been to a doctor or had tried any remedies to alleviate the pain, Mrs. LAWLEY said she had tried a number of remedies which were greatly advertised. It was the last time she went out that she went to a chemist's, and to use her own words she “could scarcely crawl home again.” Her husband was reading in the paper one of the remarkable cures Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had effected, and he advised her to try them, but she said she had no faith in them. However, she received a letter from a friend in Staffordshire who had tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and who advised her to give them a trail, and her husband also again advised her to try a box. She did so, and tried them. She told the reporter: “I only took one box before I was able to walk, and have been all right ever since. If I felt anything of the kind come on again I should soon fly to them. I have recommended the Pills to two or three friends already.” This testimony shows what a wonderful remedy Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are. Mrs. LAWLEY also added that she did not want to have another attack. She only took one box of the Pills although her husband advised her to have another.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a positive and unfailing cure for all diseases arising from an impoverished state of the blood, such as anæmia, pale and sallow complexion, green sickness, general muscular weakness, depression of spirits, loss of appetite, palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath, pain in the back, nervous headache, dizziness, loss of memory, early decay, all forms of female weakness, hysteria, paralysis, locomotor ataxy, rheumatism and sciatica; also for all diseases arising from vitiated humours in the blood, which cause scrofula, rickets, hip-joint diseases, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the bowels and lungs, and that they invigorate the blood and system when broken down by overwork, worry, diseases, excesses, and indiscretion of living. These Pills are not a purgative medicine. They contain nothing that could injure the most delicate system. They act directly on the blood, supplying to the latter its life-giving qualities, by assisting it to absorb oxygen, that great supporter of all organic life. In this way the blood, becoming “built up,” and being supplied with its lacking constituents, becomes rich and red, nourishes the various organs, stimulating them to activity in the performance of their functions, and thus eliminating diseases from the system.
These Pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, of 46, Holborn Viaduct, London, England (and of Brockville, Ontario, Canada, and Schenectady, New York), and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrappers at 2s 9d a box, or six boxes for 13s 9d. A descriptive pamphlet free by post on application. Bear in mind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are never sold in bulk, or by the dozen or hundred, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud you, and should be avoided.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills may be had of all chemists, or direct by post from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company from the above address. The price at which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment comparatively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment.