River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-02
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Dr. j. B. Henion, who is well-knowr
not only in Rochester but in nearly every
part of America, sent an extended article
to this paper, a few days since, which wa:
duly published. detailing his remarkable
experience and rescue from what seemed
TO be certain death. 1t would be impossi
bic to enumerate the personal enquire:
which have been made nj our Office as to
the validity of the article, but they have
been so numerous that further inyestiga.
tioa of the subject was deemed an editori.
| al necessity.
With this end in view a Representative
of this paper called on Dr. Henion, at his
residence on st. Paul street, when the fol-
lowing interview occurred: THAT article
| of yours, Doctor, has created quite a
whirlwlnd. Are the statements about the
terrible condition you were in, and the
way you were rescued such az you can sus-
tain?"
Every one of them, and many addi-
tional ones. Few people ever get so near
the grave as did and then return, and |
am not surprised that the public think it
marvellous. 1t was marvellous"
How in the world did you, physician,
| come to be brought so low ?"
BY neglecting the first and most sim
! pl symptoms. | did not think l was
sick. 1t is true l had frequent headaches
felt tired most of the time; could eat
nothing one day and was ravenous the
next; felt dull, indefinite pains and my
stomach was out of order, but l did not
| thing it meant anything serious
| But have these common ailments any
thing to do with the fearful Brights dis
ease which took so firm hold on You ?"
Anything Why, they are the sure
| indications of the first stages of that
dreadful malady. The fact is, few people
know or realize what ais them, and | am
sorry to say that too few physicians do,
either"
That is strange statement, Doctor"
But it is a true one. The medical
profession have been treating symptoms
instead of diseases for years, and it is high
time it ceased. We doctors have been
clipping off the twigs when we should
strike at the root. The symptoms | have
just mentioned or any unusual action or
irritation of the water channels indicate
the approach of Bright's disease even
more than cough announces the coming
of consumption. We do not treat the
cough, but try to help the lungs. We
should not waste our time trying TO re-
lieve the headache, stomach. pains about
the body or other symptoms, but 60 di-
rectly to the kidneys, the source of most
of these ailments"
This, then, is what you meant when
you said that more than one-half the
deaths which occur arise from Bright's
disease, is it, Doctor"
Precisely. Thousands of so-called
diseases are torturing people to-day, when
in reality it is Bright's disease in some of
its many forms. 1t is a dra-headed
monster, and the slightest symptoms should
strike terror to every one who has them.
| can look back and recall hundreds of
deaths which physicians declared at the
time were caused by paralysis, appoplexy,
heart disease, pneumonia, malarial fever,
and other common complaints which l
see now were caused by Bright's disease"
And did all these cases have simple
symptoms at frst?"
Every one of them, and might have
been cured as l was by the timely use of
the same remedy-Warner's Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure. | am getting my eyes
thoroughly opened in this matter and
think am helping others to see the facts
and their possible danger also. Why,
there are no end of truths bearing on this
subject. Ill you want to know more about
it go and see Mr.. Warner himself. He
was sick the same as l, and is the health
lest man in Rochester to-day. He has
made study of this subject, and can give
you more facts than | can. Go, too, and
see DIR. baltimore. the chemist, at the
University. If you want facts there are
any quantity of them showing the alarm
ing increase of Bright's disease, its sim
pie and deceptive symptoms, and that
there is but one way by which it can be
escaped"
Fully satisfied of the truth and force of
the Doctors words. the reporter babe him
good day, and called on Mr.. Warner at
his establishment on Exchange street.
At first Mr.. Warner was inclined to be reti-
cent, but learning that the information
desired was about the alarming increase
of Bright's disease, his manner changed
instantly and he spoke very earnestly:
at is true that Bfight's disease has in
creased wonderfully, and we find, by re-
liable statistics, that in the past ten years
its growth has been $50 per cent. Look at
the prominent men it has carried off:
Everett, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Carpen-
ter, Bishop, Haven and others. This is
terrible and shows a greater growth than
that of any other known complaint. 1t
must he plan to every one that something
must be done to check this increase or
there is no knowing where it may end"
do you think many people are afflicted
ed with it to-day who do not realize it,
Mr.. Warner"
Hundreds of thousands. | bave a
striking example Of this truth which has
come to my notice. A prominent pro-
fessor in New Orleans medical college
was lecturing before his class on the sub
ject of BrIght's disease. He had various
fluids under microscopic analysis and was
AL i Al.
of this terrible malay were. In order
to draw the contrast between healthy and
unhealthy fluids he had provided a vial
the contents of which were drawn from
his own person. And now, gentlemen,
he raid, as we have seen the unhealthy
indications, | will show you how it APP
pears in a state of perfect health, and he
submitted his own fluid to the usual test.
As he watched the results his countenance
suddenly changed-his color and COM
mand both left him aud in trembling
voice he said Gentlemen. have made a
painful discovery; / have Bright's disease
of the kidneys, and in less than year he
was dead"
"You believe then that it has no symp-
toms of its own and is frequently I'M
known even by the person who is afflicted
with it?"
1T has no symptoms of its own and
very often none at all Usually no two
| people have the same symptoms, and fire.
quently death is the frat symptom. The
| slightest indications of any kidney diff
Guilty should be enough to strike terror to
| any one. l know what am talking about
for l have been through all the stages of
kidney disease"
"You know of DIR. Henion's caseP
"Yes, have both read and heard of
it."
at is very wonderful is it not?'
"a very prominent case but no more so
than a great many others that have come
to my notice as having been cured by the
| same means"
You believe then that Bright's disease
can be cured"
81 know it can. / know it from the ex-
perience of hundreds of prominent per-
sons who were given up to die by both
their physicians and friends"
you speak of your own experience,
(, what was it?"
"a fearful one. had felt languid and
untitled for business for years. But / did
not know what allied me. When, how
ever, l found it was kidney difficulty
thought there was little hope and so did
the doctors, / have since learned that one