Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 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, Phild'lephia, Pa.) Last July 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. Botfhn, wife of Win. G. Bo'weu, residence, 1819 Meighan street, Philadelphia. The case was diagnosed and she was told plainly that she was in an-axlvahced 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 hotfest weather. A terrible cough took possession of me. ruy breast was sore to the slightest touch, and my limbs were like cold clay. The hardest rubbing with the coarsest towel would not create the slightest flush, and the least exertion would so exhaust me that 1 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 yon ever try Dr. Williams’ Pink Fills for Pale People? I had never heard of the mdiciue, 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 ~medieiu-e—l—was taking, including <x>d 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 and 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 middle 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 incurable consumptive. Yet such is the case beyond all dispute. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain nil 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.