News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-23
A PROFESSIONAL CONFESSION.
The Unusual Experience of a Prominent
Man Made Pnblic.

matter it contains, it will be found exceed
ingly interesting.
To the Editor of the Democrat and Chronicle:
| SIR: My motives for the publication of the
| most unusual statements which follow are,
first, gratitude for the fact that have been
| saved from a most horrible death, and, sec
J ondly, a desire to warn all who read this
7 statement against some of the most decep-
| tive influences by which they have ever been
! surrounded. 1t is a fact that to-day thou
| sands of people are within foot of the
| grave and they do not know it. To tell how
l 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 1881, l lay at my
| residence in this city surrounded by my
friends and waiting for my death. Heaven
| only knows the agony then endured, for
| words can never describe it. And yet, if a
| few years previous, any one had told me that
| / was to be brought so low, and by so terri
| bic a disease, [ should have scoffed at the
| idea. 1had always been uncOmmonly strong
and healthy, had weighed. dover 200 pounds and
| hardly knew, in my own experience what
| pain or sickness were. Very many people
| who will read this statement realize at times
that they are unusually tired and cannot
account for it. They feel dull and in
| definite pains in various parts of the body
and do not understand it, Or they are ex-
| ceedingly hungry one day and entirely with
| out appetite the next. This was just the
| way | felt when the relentless malady which
| had fastened itself upon me first began.
| Still L thought 1t was nothing; that probably
| [ had taken a cold which would soon pass
away. Shortly after this [ noticed dull,
| and at times neuralgia, pain in my head,
| but as 1t would come one day and be gone
| the next, l paid but little attention to it.
| However, my stomach was out of order and
my food often failed to digest, causing at
| times great inconvenience. Yet [ had
no idea, even as a physician, that
| these things meant anything serious or
| fbot Il 11caaca haoO,,,i,r, &C.
| upon me. Candidly, [ thought was suffer
ing from Malaria and so doctored myself
accordingly. But | got no better. | next
noticed peculiar color and odor about the
fluids | was passing-also that there were
large quantities one day and very little the
next, and that a persistent frOth and scum
appeared upon the surface, and a sediment
settled in the bottom. And yet [ did not re-
alize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these
symptoms continually, finally became ac-
customed to them, and my suspicion was
wholly disarmed by the fact that L had no
pain in the affected organs or in their
vicinity. Why should have been so blind
cannot understand.
There is terrible future for all physical
neglect and impending danger always brings
a person to his senses even though it NAV
then be too late. [ realized. at last, nv crit
ical condition and aroused myself to over
come it. And, Oh how hard l tried [ con-
suited the best medical skill in the land 7
visited all the prominent mineral springs in
America and travelled from Maine to Cali
fornia Still L grew worse. No two physi
clans agreed as to my malady. One said I
was troubled with spinal irritation: another.
nervous prostration; another, malaria: an
other dyspepsia another heart disease. an
other, general debility another, congestion
of the base of the brain; and so on throuob a
long list of common diseases, the symptoms
of all of which | really had. In this way
several years passed. during all of which
time was steadily growing worse. NV con-
dlton had really become pitiabe. The |
slight symptoms at first experienced were
developed into terrible and constant dis
orders-the little twigs of pain.had grown to |
oaks OF agony. My weight had been re-
duced from 207 to 100 pounds. My life was |
a torture to myself and friends. I couId re- |
tam no food upon my stomach, and lived |
wholly by. injections. L was living |
mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable, |
In my agony Frequently fell upon the floor,
convulsively clutched the carpet, and praved |
for death. Morphine had little or no effect
IN deadening the pain. For six DAYS and
nights L had the death-premonitory hic-
coughs constantly My urine was filed with
tube casts and albumen. / was struggling
with Bright's Disease of the Kidneys in its
last stages.
While suffering thus I received call
from my pastor, Rev. DR.. Foote, rector
of st. PauPs church. of this city. felt
that 1t was our last interview, but in the
course of conversation he mentioned a
remedy of which l had heard much but
had never used. DR.. Foote detailed to me
the many remarkable cures which had come
under his observation, by means of this
remedy, and urged me to try it. AS a prac-
tclng physician and a graduate of the
schools, cherished the prejudice both nat
ural and common with all regular practition-
ers, and derided the idea of any medicine out
side the regular channels being the least
beneficial. So solicitous, however. was Dr.
toote, that L finally promised that [ would |
waive my prejudice and try the remedy he so
highly recommended. began its use on the
hrst day of June and took it according to
directions. At first it sickened me; but This |
| thought was good sign for me in my de-
bIlltated condition. l continued to take 1T;
the slckenlng sensation departed and was
able to retain food upon my stomach. In a |
few days noticed a decided change for the
peter, as also did my wife and friends. My
hlccoughs ceased and I experienced less pain I
than formerly. was so rejoiced at this i'm
proved condition that; upon what had be- )
heyed but few days before was my dying ]
bed, vowed, in the presence of my family
and friends, should recover would both pub
hcly and privately make known this remedy
tor the good of humanity, wherever and
L had an opportunity. [ also de-
termined that would give a course of lee -
lures IN the COrlnthlan Academy of Music 4
OF this CITY, stating in full the symptoms and
almost hopelessness of my disease and the q
means by which | have been
that time, and in less than three months l /
had gained 20 pounds in flesh, became en-
hrely free from pain, and believe owe my
life and present condition wholly to Warmers
oate hldney and Liver Cure, the remedy
which l used
Since my recovery | have thoroughly re-
investigated the subject of kidney Difficult
les and Bright's disease, and the truths de-
yyeiIoped are astounding l therefore state,
deliberately and as physician, that believe
hat more than one-half the deaths width oc-
EUR in America are caused by Bright's dis
case of the kidneys. This may sound like
ash statement, but l am prepared to fully
yerify it. Bright's disease has no distinctive
ymptoms of its own (indeed, it often de-
relops without any pain whatever in the kid
leys or their vicinity, but has the symptoms
If every other known complaint. Hundreds -
# people die daily, whose burials are
Heart, Disease" 'Apoplexy," g Paralysis
Spinal Complaint Rheumatism"
Pneumonia and other common com
'laints, when in reality it was Bright's Dis =,
ase of the Kidneys. Few physicians, and 4,
ever people, realize the extent of this disease e.
T its dangerous and insidious nature. 1t ~
teals into the system like a thief, manifests
is presence by the commonest symptoms, II
nd fastens itself upon the constitution g.
efOre the victim is aware. 1t is nearly as 81
ereditary as consumption, quite as COM Il
non and fully as fatal. Entire families, ~,
lheriting it from their ancestors, have VI
led, and yet none of the number knew or f;
ealized the mysterious power which was re- 4,
loyiug them. Instead of common symp- ~
pms it often shows none whatever, but PI
rings death suddenly, and as such is usually n,
opposed to be heart disease. AS one who
as suffered and knows by bitter experience JC
hat he says, [ implore every one who reads G.,
lese words not to neglect the slightest
7mptoms of Kidney difficulty. Certain ID
gOny and possible death will be the sure re- Pi
lit of such neglect, and no one can afford to
lzard such chances. ~
l am aware that such an unqualified state 81
tent as this, coming from me, known as
n throughout the entire land as a practi-
ott7f and lecturer, will arise the surprise and
ossible luminosity of the medical profession
ld astonish all with whom am acquainted,
ut l make the foregoing statements based C.
Don facts whic& am prepared to produce :
i'd truths which can substantiate to the rs
tier. The welfare of those who may pos 81
bly, be sufferers such as | was, is an ample a.
ducement for me to take the step l have, s.
Id if [ can successfully warn others from "
e dangerous path in which l once walked, @
am willing to endure all professional and al al
ersonal consequences. ooI