Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1916 — WOMAN AVOIDS OPERATION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMAN AVOIDS OPERATION

Medicine Which Made Surgeon’s Work Unnecessary. Astoria, N. Y. Was feeling ill and took all lands of

tonics. I was geting worse every day. I had chills, my head would ache. I was always tired. I could not walk straight because of the pain in my back and I had pains in my stomach. I went to a doctor and he said I must go under an operation, but I did not go. I read in the paper about

Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and told my husband about it I said * I know nothing will help me but I will try this.’ I found myself improving from the very first bottle, and in two weeks time I was able to sit down and eat a hearty breakfast with my husband, which 1 had not done for two years. I am now in the best of health and did not have the operation.” —Mrs. John A. Koenig, 602 Flushing Avenue, Astoria, N. Y. Every one dreads the surgeon’s knife and the operating table. Sometimes nothing else will do; but many times doctors say they are necessary when they are not Letter after letter comes to the Pinkham Laboratory, telling how operations were advised and were not performed: or,if performed,did no good, but Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compoundwas used and good health followed. If you want advice write* to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. '