Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-03-25
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The readers of this paper were more ol ~
amazed at q most remarkable statement run
one of our leading citizens when appea.su
in yesterdays issue So unusual were une
circumstances connected with it, and so mnch
comment did il occasion on the street ana III
social circles, that q representative OF 'nis
n.ner ~.s commissioned 10 investigate It's De-
tails and verify its facts. The article reierreo
N vas a statement made by Mr.. B. r. Lar
r.hee. of the New York and Boston blspatch
Express COMPANY, that after having lam al
the point of death for more than three weeks
given up BY both physicians ana iriehds' nc
had completely and wonderfully regained ms
usual health Mr.. Larrabee was fouhu III
his private Office on Arch Street, and, upon
being questioned. said:
..Well, sir, logically. have been Dead pu'
really am as you see me. niue o,e,
wear ago was taken sick. but l allowed 'he
illness to run along until on the 2sth day OF
October. 1879, fell PROSTATE while walking
along fremont Street. l was carried home.
and did not 90 out of the house until the mid
die of December. ] then went down town:
and attempted to attend to my business until
the 18th of last January, when | was taken
with a verv severe relapse. My symptoms
were terrible. | vas fearfully bloated:'I
suffered severe pains in all parts of the body.
and il was almost impossible to get my
breath. For six DAYS never laid down, and
never slept. / was constantly attended by
nv regular physician, DIR. johnson. and Dr.
Bowditch also came to see ME nearly every
day. There was no doubt that l was suffer
ing from Bright's disease of the kidneys in its
worst form and last stages, accompanied by
other troubles in my liver and heart. In
spite, however, of the skill of the physicians.
I kept growing worse. and finally they tapped
nv side in the vicinity Of the heart. taking
away forty-six ounces of water. This re-
lieved me for the time. but soon became as
bad as before. Then the doctors gave me up
entirely. declared could not live more than
twenty-four hours. and my daughter, who
was residing in Paris, was telegraphed for.
Still fingered along for several weeks, far
more dead than alive. but never giving up
hope One night-it was on the Goth of
April, l very we'll remember-my attendant,
who was reading the paper to me, began an
article which described my disease and suffer
ings exactly. 1t told how some severe cases
of Bright's disease had been cured, and so
clearly and sensibly did 1t state the case, that
/ determined to try the means of cure which
it described. So sent my man to the drug
store. procured a bottle of the medicine, un-
known to my physicians and friends, and took
the first dose at ten o'clock. At that time l
was suffering intensely. could not sleep A;
had the short breaths, and could scarcely
get anv air into nv lungs. l was terribly
bloated from head to foot, and the motion of
NV heart was irregular and painful. The
next morning I was able to breath freely
the pain began to leave me. and the bloating
decreased. continued to take the medicine,
and to-day, sir, am as well as l ever was in
NV life, and wholly owing to the wonderful,
almost miraculous, power of Warmers Safe
kidney and Liver Cure. l do not know what
this medicine is made of. or ANYTHING else
about it, but know it saved my life when l
was given up by the doctors, and had been
really dead for weeks; that it has really kent
me in perfect health ever since. and has cured
many of nv friends to whom l have recon-
mended it. There are number of very re-
markable cases in LYNN and Salem, as we'll
as in this city, that it has cured. NV recov-
erv is so remarkable that it it has excited
much attention, and physicians. as well as
others, have investigated it thoroughly.
am glad they have. for l feel that the results
of such wonderful cure should be known to
the thousands in all parts of the land who are
suffering from trouble of the kidneys, silver
or heart, in some of their MANY dangerous
FORMS"
The representative of the press thanked
Mr.. Larrabee for his very frank and clear
statement and was about to leave the office,
when a gentleman stepped up to him and in.
auired if he we're seeking information about
MIR. Larrabee's sickness and recovery. The
scribe replied that he was. wbereupon the
gentleman said:
s.And so am I: and I have come all the
way from Chicago for that very purpose.
Kidney troubles seem to be alarmingiy in.
creasing all over the country. and have a
very near relative who is afflicted much AZ
Mr.. Larrabee was. I have been to see the
physicians of whom Mr.. Larrabee sneak.
and tell YOU, sir. il is .impIv wonderful !,
"What did they saw" asked the man o,
news.
"Say! why. sir. they fully confirm every.
thing Mr.. Larrabee has stated. Iwent to
see DR.. d. A. johnson. at 90 Worcester
street. He was absent when called. and az
I stepped into the Commonwealth Hotel
where Mr.. Larrabee was living at tho t;r,o "a
his sickness. Messrs. Burgh and Carter are
the proprietors and 7 asked them .houf NJ
Larrabee's case. Mr.. Burpb po;nted n Tho
electric annunciator and said sWbv n,
weeks and weeks every time that be,l rano
I said. that means the death of Mr. Torrohoe
No one around the hotel ever draomod ,i,o
he would recover. and whom Tho doc.nrs
would come down from his room tbev woniS
shake their heads. and sav there vas No how
The arrangements for the funeral were made.