People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — HOW STOUT GOT STOUT. [ARTICLE]

HOW STOUT GOT STOUT.

The Remarkable Experience of a Rheumatic Sufferer. All But Paralyzed—Lost His Flesh and Ex* peered to Die How He Got Well and Strong. [From the Mt. Sterling (Ill.) Republican.) Few men are held in higher esteem by their fellow-townspeople than James W. Stout, of Riply, Hl., and it is due, no aoubt, partly to this popularity that the record of the case has created such widespread interest. While his experience is not without an equal, yet it has been sufficiently remarkable to demand the attention of thousands of people in Illinois, among whom are numbered some of the most eminent physicians. In January, 1893, Mr. Stout was stricken with what was then believed to be sciatic rheumatism, and in a short time was barely able to hobble around on crutches, and it seemed to his friends that his days were numbered. To-day he is a strong, heartylooking man for 160 puonds How this wonderfnl change was brought about is most interesting as told to a representative of the Republican by Mr. Stout himself: “I was afflicted with sciatic rheumatism and lumbago in January, 1893. The sciatic nferve'on tne right side became affected in the hip, running down to the ankle and across the small of the back to the left side, and soon my whole system became afflicted, causing mo the most excruciating pain. In a very short time I become totally unable to attend to any business whatever, and the disease rapidly growing worse I had to take to my bed, where I lay suffering almost continuously for months the most agonizing torture, scarcely being able to move or be moved. At one time I lay for six weeks flat on my back, the slightest movement causing me such pain as almost to throw me into convulsions. I cannot begin to express to you the intense pain I suffered. I was drawn, by the severeness of the malady, over to the left side; lost my appetite, had no desire for food, and what little I did eat 1 could not digest, the digestive organs failing to perform their duty, adding greatly to my already precarious condition. For weeks at a time I was unable to eat or sleep, suffering all the time most intensely and at times fearing I would lose my reason, and would have welcomed death to relieve me of my sufferings. “I consulted with local physicians and some of the most eminent specialists of the larger cities throughout the country, some treating me for one thing and some for another, but without effect, and I received no elief whatever. One physician told me I had double curvature of the spine and would eventually become paralyzed. I spent hundreds of dollars in the short time I was afflicted without receiving the least benefit. My friends all thought that there was no hope for me whatever and said that I must die, and I, myself, had almost given up in despair, when, in September, 1893, about eight months after I was first afflicted, my attention was called to Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. "Without much hope, I at once sent to C. F. Rickey & Co., Druggists, Mt. Sterling, 111., and procured some' of the pills and immediately began taking them. Before long I becameaware of a great 1 change for the better in my almost hopeless condition. My appetite came back and my digestive organs performed their usual functions properly. I took some more and grew rapidly better—could sit up in a chair and my body began to straighten out; continued the treatment and in a short time was able to be about on crutches. My recovery from that time on was very rapid and assured. My right leg, which before I commenced this treatment, was numb and dead, now experienced a pricking, tingling sensation. I was enabled to throw away my crutches and walk upright ouce more'among my fellows, a better man physically than ever before. When first taken by the disease I weighed 160 pounds, was reduced to 115; I now weigh 166, more that I ever weighed at any time in 'my life. Yes. sir, I lay my recovery entirely to Pink Pills.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions and all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 59 cents a box, or six boxes for s2.so—(they are never sold in bulk or by the 100,) by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady N. Y.