People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — A MIRACLE IN MISSOURL [ARTICLE]

A MIRACLE IN MISSOURL

The Achievements of Medioal Science Far More Wonderful Than the Magic of the East. th« Remarkable Experience of Post tar Woodson, of Panama, Mo.—For Ten Tears a Cripple—To-Day ▲ Well and Hearty Man. [Prom the Kansas City Times.] The people of Rich HilL, Mo., and vicinity, have recently been startled 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 of ex-State Inspector of Mines C. C. Woodson, of thia city. The people of Rich Hill, where he formerly resided, and of his present home, remember well tho bent form, misshapen almost from the semblance of man, which has painfully bowed its head half to earth and labored snail-like across the walks season after season, and when one day last month it straightened 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 about the two cities, people looked and wondered. The story of the remarkable case has become the marvel of the two counties. Exactly as Mr. Woodson told it to a Times reporter, it Is here published: “For ten years I have suffered the torments of the damned and have been a useless Invalid; to-day lam a well and hearty man free from almost every touch of pain. 1 dou’t think man ever suffered more acute and constant agony than I have since 1881. The rheumatism started then in my 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 fire years, the ailment having settled in the joint. Despite constant treatment of tho most eminent physicians the rheumatism grew worse, and for the last four years I have been compelled to go about bent half toward the ground. In the winter of 189061, after the rheumatism had settled Into its most chronic form, I went to Kansas City upon advice of my brother, 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 home I secured a strong galvanic battery, this I used for months with the same result. In August, 1892, 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 by Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People of locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and paralysis .1 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 I 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 of my terrible aud agonizing ailment. No magician of the Par East ever wrought the miracle with his wand that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills did for me.” To verify the story beyond all question of doubt Mr. Woodson made the following affidavit: State of Missouri, i County of Bates, f 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 apd sworn to before me thisSd day of March, 1894. John D. Moore, Xntary Public. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are manufactured by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.,and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm’s trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for £2.50. 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 Co.