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A Love Story

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
November
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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A LOVE STORY

Which Did Not End With Wedding Chimes.

This is a modern love story, only possible in these times of broad education and high ideals. A young woman was left alone in the world by the death of her parents, both of whom were victims of consumption. She was amiable, beautiful and had many suitors, one of whom was the man she would have chosen above all others as her husband. But she brooded over the thought that she probably inherited from her parents the fatal disease - consumption. If she married she would, she reasoned, be perpetuating this disease in the children who might be given her, and so she resolved never to marry, turned away from the man she loved and disappeared from society to give herself up to nursing among the poor until such time as the dread disease should claim her.

SPLENDID BUT NOT SCIENTIFIC.

The sacrifice was splendid, but the theory which prompted it was unscientific. Never, in the history of the disease has consumption been so carefully studied as today. Scientists in every country are directing their efforts to the eradication of the disease. In many minor things these scientists disagree, but they are unanimous on the one point - consumption is never inherited. That one ghost which has frightened so many people is laid forever. Before the disease consumption can grow in the body the germ seed must be planted there. These consumption germs are everywhere. It is doubtful if everyone does not receive them at some time or another. But in the great number of cases they are thrown off. Where they lodge and develop disease it is because they find tissues prepared for them by weakness. There is the danger to the children of consumptive parents; they have a tendency to weakness of the lungs and other organs of respiration, and need to be doubly careful to avoid colds and coughs or any other cause of irritation of the tissues of the throat or lungs. More than this it should be the constant effort of every person predisposed to lung trouble to bring the lungs up to the highest standard of health.

IT CAN BE DONE.

Weak lungs can be made strong. Obstinate deep-seated coughs can be cured, and the clouds of consumption which darken many a life can be scattered. I feel it my duty to give my testimonial in behalf of your great medicine writes Mr. John T. Reed, of Jefferson, Jefferson Co., Ark. "When I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery I was very low with a cough, and would at times spit up blood. I was not able to do any work at all, and my head was dizzy. The first bottle I took did so much good that I had faith in it and continued until I had taken twelve bottles. Now I do not look like nor feel like the same man as I was a year ago. People were astonished and said they did not think that I could live. I can thankfully say that I am entirely cured of a disease from which, had it not been for your wonderful 'Discovery,' I would have died".

What Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery did for Mr. Reed it has done for thousands of men and women who suffered as he did. There are strong men today who were once weak, emaciated, with scarce any hold on life. They were made strong by Golden Medical Discovery." There are glad wives and happy mothers today, radiant with health, who were once coughing their lives away and were incapable of any enjoyment in life. They were cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.

"I want to say a word in favor of your grand medicine," writes Mrs. Priscilla Small of Leechburg, Armstrong Co., PA. About three years ago I was taken with a bad cough. I had night-sweats; would take coughing spells and have to sit up in bed at night for an hour at a time. When I would walk up hill I could hardly breathe; would get all stopped up in my throat. I saw the advertisement of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and decided to try it. I took three bottles, which cured me. Whenever people tell me they are sick I say to them, 'Why don't you get Dr. Pierce's medicine? It cured me and will cure others."'

MAKE A TRIAL.

If your lungs are weak, if you are suffering from bronchitis, obstinate cough, bleeding lungs, night-sweats or emaciation, give Dr. Pierce'S Golden Medical Discovery a fair trial. It always helps It almost always cures. It took twelve bottles to cure Mr. Reed, but note how he got faith in the possibility of a cure by the use of Golden Medical Discovery.

"The first bottle I took did me so much good that I had faith in it, and continued until I had taken twelve bottles. That's generally the way". One or two bottles of Golden Medical Discovery give an appreciable gain in health so that the sick person is encouraged to persevere until a perfect and permanent cure is accomplished. Of course, some are slower than others in responding to the remedy. It must be expected that the smaller the spark of vitality to longer it will take to fan it into aflame. But the comfort of everyone suffering from weak lungs or other diseases of the organs of respiration, it may be stated that no matter how bad the disease the record shows that in ninety-eight cases out of every hundred Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has effected a perfect and permanent cure. Give it a fair and faithful trial and it will cure you too unless you are one of those two in every hundred who can only be helped and not completely cured.

Keep the bowels healthy by the timely use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Don't be fooled in trading a substance for a shadow. Any substitute offered as "just be as good" as Golden Medical Discovery is a shadow of that medicine. There are cures behind every claim made for the "Discovery", which no "just as good" medicine can show.

FREE DIAMONDS

might have a more attractive sound, but they would not have a greater value than Dr Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. This great work, containing more than a thousand large pages and over seven hundred illustrations, is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for the cloth-bound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.