Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — MIRACLE IN MISSOURI [ARTICLE]

MIRACLE IN MISSOURI

Tlm Achievements e< Medical Science Far Moca Wonderful than tha Magic •oi the East Tkv Remarkable Experience of Poetmaeter Woedeea, es Panama, Mo.—For Ten Fear* a Cripple—To-day a Well and Hearty Man. (From the Kansas City Times.) The people of Rich Hill, Mo., and vicinity have recently been startle! by a seeming miracle of healing. For years one of the best-known men in Bates and Vernon Counties has been Mark M. Woodson, now postmaster at Panama, and brother oi ex-State Inspector of Mines C. C. Woodson, of this city. The people of Rich Hill, where he formerly resided, and of his present home remember well the bent form, misshapen almost from the semblance of man, which has painfully bowed its head half to earth and labored snaillike across the walks- season after season, and when one day last month it . ®f/ilghtenod to its full height, threw away the heavy butt of cane which for years had been its only support from total helplessness, and walked erect, firmly, unhesitatingly afcouV'the two Cities, people locked and wondered. The story of the remarkable case has become the marvel of the two counties. Exactly as Mr. Woodson told it tp a Times reporter, it is here published: “For fen years I have suffered the torments of the damned and have been a useless invalid; to-day I am a well and hearty man, free from almost every touch of pain. I don't think man ever Buffered more acute and constant agony than I have since 1884. The rheumatism started then in m.v right knee, and after weeks of suffering in bed I was at last relieved sufficiently to arise, but it was only to get about on crutches for five years, the ailment having settled in the joint. Despite constant t' eatment of the most eminent physicians the rheumatism grew Worse, and for the last four years I have been compelled to go about bent half toward ttie ground. In the winter of 1890-91. after- the rheumatism had settled into its most chronic form, I went to Kansas City upon advice of my b other, and for six weeks I was treated in one of the largest and best-known dispensaries of that city, but without the slightest improvement. Before I came homo I secured a strong galvanic battery; this I used for months With the same result. In August, 189.’, I went to St. Louis, and there conferred with the widely known Dr. Mudd, of hospital practice fame, and Dr. Kale, of the city hospital. None of them would take my case with any hope of affording me more than temporary relief. and so I came home, weak, doubled with pain, helpless and despondent. “About this time my attention was called to the account of a remarkable cure of locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and paralysis by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I ordered some of the pills as an experiment. When I began to take them, the rheumatism had developed into a phase of paralysis: my leg, from the thigh down, was cold all the time and could not be kept warm. In a short time the pills were gone, and so was the cane. I was able to attend to the duties of my office, to get about as a well and strong man. I was free from pain and 1 could enjoy a sound and restful night's sleep, something I had not known for ten years. To-day am practically and, I firmly believe, permanently' cured pf my terrible and agonizing ailment. No magician of the Far East ever wrought the miracle with his wand that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilh did for me. “ To verify the story beyond all question of doubt, Mr. Woodsoh made the following affidavit: State of Missouri, ) County of Bates, \ I, M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn, on my oath state that the following statements are true and correct, as I verily believe. M. M. WOODSON. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3d day of March, 1894. John D. Moors. Notary Public. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold only ia boxes bearing the firm’s trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for 82.60. Bear in mind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills 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 druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company.