Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
HOW A TENNESSEE MAN
NEARLY LOST HIS LIFE,
And was Afterwards Restored to
His Sorrowing Family.
An Interview with Mr.. Curtis.

Gently passed successfully through n try.
ing ordeal, our reporter paid a visit to that
gentleman, when the following converse
ton took place;
Reporter-"Mr. Curtis, 1 learned
through a friend of mine the other day,
that you had been suffering until quite
recently from a severe affection, and that
you finally received relief from a most uR'
expected source. If such is the case, have
you any objections against relating to me
the nature Of your ailment and the details
Of the cure affectod7"
Mr.. Ourtis-"None whatever; as l can
assure you l have been helped 10 a more
remarkable way than 1 can find words to
tell of. In the first place, TO go back q
few years, l have been troubled since q
child with a serious threat difficulty. AS
l grew older the malady seemed 10 In
crease in severity, and | was finally OBJ
liged in 1871 to leave my home, in Port
land, Maine, and seek a moro congenial
climate. For this purpose l moved ia
Alabama, where l resided some four
years, and was so greatly relieved by the
mild climate that | considered myself
cured, and again returned to Portland
The winter following my arrival was a
terrible one. The fierce, cutting winds
and severe cold proved too much for me,
and l vas again obliged to return to the
south. This time | located in Southeast
ern Tennessee, neal the Georgia line, and
after a short residence the throat diff
Guilty had entirely disappeared.
During my residence in the south,
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business las been for the most part office
work. For the past four years, and until
quite recently, l have been troubled terri.
bly, with Indigestion my suferings at times
being almost unbearable. Added to this
was a distressing liver complaint, which
finally eliminated, a year ago last August
in bilious fever. This left my kidneys
very weak, and every time l took the
least cold it would settle there, giving me
intense pain and wholly incapacitating me
for business. l was greatly annoyed by
dull, heavy pains across the small of my
back, which were accompanied by acute
shooting pains down through my groins.
From these excruciating pains I was
rarely free even for a day, and they would
frequently last for weeks at q time, tor
turing me constantly. So severe were
they hat often before getting up from nv
chair / would be compelled TO take hold
of my leg with my hand and lift it Gear
of the floor before standing my weight
upon it. They finally beeameso bad that
l could not stand up at my desk, and
even when seated the least motion of my
body was sureto aggravate them. All this
time my tongue was covered with q
thick white or yellowish coating,
which | could in no way remove
though l tried pills and other remedies
without number, besides consulting sew
eral ofthe best physicians in Chattanooga
and vicinity. They gave my ailments
several different names, one of them pro-
nouncing it catarrh of the bladder. l took
their medicines in exact accordance with
the directions given and with great regu-
larity. At first the pains left me in a
slight degree, and / was about to congrat-
ulate myself on my happy recovery,
when the malady returned in a more dis
tressing form than ever. As if to complete
my s%utferings, l began TO be troubled with
gravel, which became more and more har.
and about the first of December
last | became thoroughly discouraged and
up my uIliu bldb L WIS certainty
afflicted with some incurable disease
must before a great while cause my
death. l had no appetite, was weak and
melancholy, and had no ambition to do
anything but sit and nope over my
troubles. The disease preyed upon my
mind to such an extent that / could not
Danish the aches and pains and horrors,
and as a consequence, | was totally unfit
to transact in a proper manner the slight
est business.
"Sach was the condition OF my mind
and body when [ procured the first bot
tie of Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure, and | had scarcely finished one
half the bottle before the coating had left
my tongue, and it had assumed Its natural
red and healthy color. Ny appetite was
good, my eyes bright, and / felt remarka-
strong and healthy. Thinking nv
self well, / very foolishly left off taking
the medicine, when very sSon afterwards
severe cold which l caught settled in
my kidneys, and DOR put me back whero
! started from. But so well satisfied was
l with the happy result produced by the
bottle that | knew the medicine
would cure me, and / at once sent for
half a dozen bottles. Then | took it in
exact accordance with the instructions on
the label Of the bottle, following direc-
tions closely regarding diet, and abstain
ing from coffee and tobacco in all forms.
The distressing pains in my back and side
seemed to increase with the more me IL
cineI took. Gradually the pain appeared
to concentrate at the neck OF the bladder.
and | finally passed a lump Of gravel as
az a good sized pea. Since then l
have felt better than Tor years and an in
creasing in weight every day. Ny appe-
tite is simply amazing, and l am con-
stanslyin the best of spirits.
"The most conclusive evidence to my
own mind that the cure is a permanent
one is the very fact that the last cold I
had, and from the effects Of which | am
just recovering, did not settle in my kid
neys, but in my head and throat = organs
which n cold has not attacked before in
five years, TO my certain knowledgeI
Heretofore, the least cold | caught settled
at once in my kidneys, whereas from this
cold, which was the most severe | have
experienced in five years, l felt no pain
whatever in my kidneys.
my wife has also been greatly relieved
by the same medicine. Her liver was out
of order, tongue coated, appetite gone, and
her mind and body completely worn out,
mostly on account Of her worry over my
own precarioui condition. She took SOW
eral doses Of the medicine, giving partic-
ular attention TO diet, and in O few days
was as well as ever"
Then you consider yourself as having
been greatly benefited by this medicine,
Mr.. Curtis3"
ayes, sir / think ! can safely say that
/ owe my present good health, and perhaps
my existence 10 Warmers Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure. And, what's more, I
have no fear for the future so long as the
medicine is made and sold, for even If,
through my carelessness, the old trouble
should return, l know that q bottle or two
of the remedy win bring me out as straight
as o string in a few days"
l found DR.. Bulls cough syrup to
be a most effectual remedy, and feel
sure that the most Stubborn cough and
LII ill v,o1J N ;to baa1fu0 tndvanon