Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — ARMY HARDSHIPS. [ARTICLE]

ARMY HARDSHIPS.

No Om but a Veteran Can Realize the Sufferings from Army Life. It Often Makes Our Able-Bodied Men Helpless Invalids-The Story of One Who Suffered for Twenty Years. From tAe Farmere' Voice, Chicago. 11l Edson A. Wood, who now lives at 990 Washington boulevard, Chicago, 111., was born on a farm in Wyoming County, N. Y., fifty years ago. As a young man he suffered two sun strokes in the fields. When the war broke out, he joined the 57th Illinois Volunteers, with which he served two years, when sickness forced his discharge. The effects of the sun strokes and his army life undermined his health and he seen found his brain, heart and kidneys were affected. For eight years he was with the West Chicago Street Car Company; but was forced to seek lighter work, as the exposure increased his bronchial and asthmatic troubles. His constitution gradually but surely breaking down, strange dizzy spells becoming more frequent, he finally sought relief in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He said to a reporter: “It was korne time about a year ago when I wks' very poorly, that my head was giving me a great deal of trouble, dizzy spells, aches qud queer feelings, and then I also had a strange feeling of uncertainty in the use of my lower limbs when walking. “Physicians examined my condition c osely and were of the opinion that I had a j t . ? B yn>Ptoms of locomotor ataxia, and I believe they were right, alho last summer 1 had a very hard time with an attack of tonsilitis and neuralgia, from which I did not Recover for some time. It was then that 1 commenced to take these Pink Pills, and had only taken a few boxes when I discovered a remarkable change for the better in every way. The pills seemed to relieve me of aches and P a * ns t the .symptoms of locomotor ataxia have left me entirely, and thev have made me strong and feel like myself "I am going to continue with the use of the pills for the reason that having relieved me of the ailments I thought had come to stay, having been caused thirty years ago from hardships in the army, I am practically rid of them and will lose no efforts when I have the remedy at hand to keep them rid. lam only too glad to tdll all my friends what experience I have had with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and when they see the good physical condition I am in now, although near sixty years of nge, they will come to the same conclusion as myself. “The above is a correct statement of facts concerning myself. (Signed) A. WOOD.” Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22d day of January, 1896. ROBERT ANSLEY, Notary Public. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.