River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-26
4 PROFESSIONAL CONFESSION.
The Unusual Experience OF a PrOmt-
nent Man Made Public

The following article from the Democrat
and Chronicle, of Rochester, N. Y, is OF
so striking a nature, and emanates from
30 reliable source. that il is herewith re-
published entire. In addition to the val
liable matter it contains, it will be found
exceedingly interesting.
:. To the editor Of the Democrat and Cdr0ni-
Gle.
SIR:-My motives for the publication
of the most unusual statements which
follow are, Ist, gratitude for the fact
that have been saved from a most horri-
BILE death, and, secondly, desire to warn
all who read this statement against some
of the influences by which they have
ever been surrounded. Il is fact that
to-day thousands of people are within a
foot of the grave and they do not know
it. To tell how / Was caught away from
Just this position and to warn others
against nearing it, are my objects in this
communication.
On the first day of June, 1884, lay at
my residence in this city surrounded by
my friends and waiting for my death.
Heaven only knows the agony / then en-
dured, for words can never describe it..
And yet, if few years previous, any one
had told me that was to be brought 80
have scoffed at the idea. / had always
been uncommosly strong and healthy,
had weighed over two hundred pounds
and hardly knew. in my own experience,
what pain or sickness were. Very many
people who will read this statement real
ize at times that they are unusually tired
and cannot account for ii. They feel dull
and indefinite pains in various parts of
the body axd do not understand it. Or
they are exceedingly hungry one day and
entirely without appetite the next. This
is Just the way felt when the relentless
malady which fastened itself upon me first
began. Still / thought it was nothing
that probably had taken a cold which
would soon pass away. Shortly after this
/ noticed dull. and at times neuralgic,
pain in my head, but as it would come
one day and be gone the next, paid but
little attention to it. However, my stom-
ach was out of order and my food often
failed to digest, causing at times great in
convenience. Yet had no idea, even as
a physician, that these things meant any
thing serious or that a monstrous disease
was becoming fixed upon me. Candidly
thought was suffering from malaria and
so doctored myself accordingly. But ]
got no better. l next noticed peculiar
color and odor about the faids / was pass
ing-also that there were great quantities
one day and very little the next, and that
a persistent froth and scum appeared up
on the surface, and a sediment settled in
the bottom. And yet / did not realize my
danger, for, indeed. seeing these symptoms
continually, | finally became accustomed
to them, and my suspicion was wholly
disarmed by the fact that had no pain in
the affected organs or in their vicinity
Why | should have been Sd blind / cannot
understand.
There is a terrible future for all physi.
cal neglect, and impending danger al
ways brings a person to his senses even
though it may then be too late. / realized
at last my critical condition and aroused
myself to overcome it. And, Oh how
hard tried / consulted the best medi
cal skill in the land. / visited all the
prominent mineral springs in Americs
and travelled from Maine to California
Still | grew worse. No two physicians
agreed as to my malady. One said / was
troubled with spinal irritation; an
other, nervous prostration; another, mala.
ria; another, dyspepsia; another, heart die
ease; another, general debility; another
congestion of the base Of the brain; anC
SO On through long list,of common dis
eases, the symptoms of al of which
really had. In this way several years
passed, during all OF which fine / wai
steadily growing worse MY condition
had really become pitiable. The slight
symptoms I at first experienced weres de-
veloped into terrible and constant disor-
ders-tke little twig of pain had grown
to oaks of agony. My weight had
been reduced from 207 to 49,
pounds, My life was torture
to myself and fesends. Icould retain mol
food upon my stomach, and lived wholly
by injections. was living mass of pain
NY pulse was uncomfortable. la my
agony frequently fell upon the Goor
convulsiyely cluLched the carpet, and
prayed COR death. Morphine had little OF
no effect in deadening the pain. For six
days and nights l mad the death premon'
TORY hiccoughs constantly. My urine
was filled with tube casts and albumen.
was struggling with Bright'ss Disease o.
the K idn eys in the last stages.
While suffering thus / receI ed cal
from nv pastor, The Rev. DIR. Foote, rec
tor Of st. Paufs church, of this city.
felt that il was our last iatelview, but in
the course of conversation he mentioned
A remedy of which | had heard much but
had never used. DR.. Foote detailed tc
me the many remarkable cures which had
come under his observation, by means Of
the remedy, and urged me to try it. As
practicing physician and graduate oil
the schools, | cherished the preiudice
both natural and common with all regular
practitioners, and derided the idea of any
medicine outside the regular channels
being the least beneficial. So solicitous
however, was DR.. Foote, thai | finally
promised [ would waive my prejudice
and try the remedy he so highly rec9m.
mended. / began its use on the Isl
day of June and took it according
to directions. At first it sickened
me; but this / thought was q
good sign for me in my debilitated
condition. l continued TO take 1t; the
sickening sensation departed and | was
able to retail food upon my stomach. In
few DAYS / noticed decided change fol
the better as also did my wife and friends
NV hiccoughs ceased and / experienced
less pain than formerly. l was so rejoiced
at this improved condition that, upon
what l believed few days before was my
diving bed, / vowed, in the presence Of
my family and friends, should / recover,
would both publicly and privately make
known this remedy for the good o.
humanity. wherever and whenever ] had
an opportunity. / also determined that
would give a course of lectures in the
Corinthian Academy of Music of this city
stating in full the symptoms and almost
hopelessness of my disease and the re-
markable means by which j have beer
saved. NY improvement was constant
from that time, and in less than three
months | had gained 26 pounds in flesh
became entirely free from pain and l be-
lieve owe my life and present condition
wholly to Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure, the remedy which used.
Since my recovery | have thoroughly
re-investigated the subject of kidney diff
culties and Bright's disease. and the
truths developed are astounding. / there
fore state, deliberately, and as physician
that believe that ore than one half the
deaths which occur in America are caused
by Bright's disease of the kidneys. This
may sound like rash statement. but
am prepared to fully verify it. Bright'f
disease has no distinctive symptoms of Its
own, indeed, it often deVelopes without
any pain whatever in the kidneys or their
vicinity, but has the symptoms OF nearly
every other known complaint Hundreds
of people die daily, whose burials are an
thorized by physicians certificate Of
Heart Disease, "Apnplexy," "Paral-
ysis," Spinal Complaint" "Rheuma-
tism, !" ''Pneumonis," and other common
complaints, when in reality it is Bright's
Disease of the Kidneys. Few pbysi-
clans, and fewer people, realize the extent
of this disease or its dangerous and in
sidious nature. II steals into the system
like thief, manifests its presence by the
commonest symptoms, and fastens Itself
upon the constitution before the victim il
aware. 1t is nearly as hereditary as con-