Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — A PECULIAR CASE. [ARTICLE]

A PECULIAR CASE.

PHYSICIANS PUZZLED BY THE EXPERIENCE OF MRS. BOWEN. The Episcopal Hospital Said She Had Consumption. (from the Record , Philadepkia, Pa.) Last Jnly the Episcopal Hospital admitted a woman whose pale and emaciated face and racking cough proclaimed her the victim of consumption. She gave her name as Mrs. Sallie G. Bowen, wife of Wm. G. Bowen, Residence, 1849;Meighan street, Philadelphia, The case' was diagnosed and she was*'told plainly that she was in an advanced stage of consumption. The examining physician even showed her the sunken place in her breast where the cavity in her lung was supposed to exist. She went home to her family a broken, disheartened woman with death staring her in the face. That was the beginning of the story; the end was told by Mrs. Bowen, who no longer expects to die, to a reporter who visited her home. “The first symptoms of consumption came in the form of terrible sweats, both night and day. From April until September I was constantly cold and kept wrapped up in blankets through the'hotrest weather. A telrible cough took possession of me, my breast was sore to tho slightest tonch, and my limbs were like cold clay. The hardest rubbing with tho coarsest towel would not create the slightest flush, and the least exertion would so exhaust me that I could barely gasp for water. “I went to the hospital in July and they diagnosed my case as above stated. • It was when the clouds were the darkest that the first glint of sunshine came. Mr. Shelmerdine, a friend, who lives around at 1844 Clementine street, said to me one day: ‘Mrs. Bowen, did you ever try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People?* I had never henrd of the mdicine, but in my condition could not turn a deaf ear to anything that offered relief. It was after considerable thought and investigation that I concluded to discontinue all the medicine I was taking, including cod liver oil, and depend entirely upon Pink Pills. I began to take the pills, at first with but little encouragement. The first sign of improvement was a warmth anil a tingling sensation in my limbs. Finally the cough disappeared, my chest lost its soreness and I began to gain flesh until I was fifteen pounds heavier. All this I owe to Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and I cannot praise them too highly.” Mrs. Bowen is a kindly-faced lady of mjddle age, a church member well-known and highly esteemed. She looks to-day well and strong, and it seems almost impossible that she was ever given up by eminent physicians as" an incurablu consumptive. Yet such is the case beyond all dispute. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain till the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.. for 50 cents per box, or six boxes for $2.50.