Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-11
PREsENTIMENTs. !.
An Investigation of the Causes of Those
Z Dark ForebOtiings which Make
Powerful Men Weak.
Golden Rule.


return in nineteen years of the great comet
of last summer will cause the destruction OF
the earth. But while people are becoming
so strangely exercised over this announce
| ment. an event of far more serious i'm
portanee, which is taking place to-day,
seems TO be almost wholly overlooked. The
| nature of this most vital subject can be best
explained by relating the following expe-
riences.
Bishop E. o. Haven, known to the entire
land, was unaccountably awakened one
night out of sound sleep, and lay awake
until morning. His mind seemed unusually
active, and he not only reviewed his past
| life, which had been an eventful one, but
laid extensive plans for the future. He did
not feel especially i'll, but could not account
for the unusual activity of his brain, nor for
the restlessness which seemed to possess
him. In the morning he had but little APP
petite, but was apparently well in other re-
spects. In few days, however, he began
| to feel restless and morbid, although he
/ tried to earnestly overcome the feeling
which had taken possession of him. But
| try rs he would, the shadow of some evil
seemed to follow him, and he was conscious
| of gradual sinking and wasting away of
all his physical faculties. He had been an
earnest and diligent worker, and in his zeal
| frequently over-taxed his strength, and be-
| ing absorbed in his duties failed to observe
the common symptoms with which he was
| afflicted, thus permitting the work of
| destruction to 90 on UNDECIDED. But the
! end finally came IN u most peremptory man
ner. Shortly before his death he wrote
| letter-the last one he ever indited-ia
which he speaks as follows: "A belief
| that death is near affects different minds
differently, but probably all who are in q
| fair condition of physical and mental
strength instinctively shrink from it with
an indefnable dread and horror dying
man is no more able of himself to foresee
his own destiny or the destiny of those he
leaves than he was before he began to die"
The recent sad and sudden death of Hon.
| Clarkson n. Potter is one of the most seri-
Gus warnings ever given in the long list of
/ innumerable cases of fatal neglect 1t is
not sufficient to say that other brilliant men,
including Sumner, Chase, Wood, Wilson
and Carpenter, were swept away by the
same fatal trouble. The question is, were
these men sufficiently careful of their health.
and could they have been saved? The AL
bany Argus, in speaking of Mr.. Potter's
sudden illness and death, says
One of the physicians who attended Mr..
| Potter here, WIS interviewed last evening.
He stated that Mr.. Potters inability to con-
verse had for some time served to battle the
physicians in their efforts to determine the
| root of his Illness Ii seems, however, that
Mr.. Potter, some two years ago, suffered a
slight attack of kidney disease. Unwise
dependence upon robust constitution and
naturally perfect health, and neglect of
proper clothing, doubtless sowed the seeds
~E xl..lI-
sonal neglect as that of Tuesday morning to
develop. From the symptoms at first
shown, it was thought that his only trouble
was nervous prostration ; but his long con-
tinuance in a semi unconscious state led TO
the belief that his illness was seated in a
chronic difficulty more mysterious and dau-
gerous.
Up to the latter part of last year Mr.. Ed
ward F. Rock, member of the New York
stock exchange, was doing business i'll Wall
street, New York He had every
thing to encourage him, and
make his life happy, but was
the victim of unaccountable uneasiness
His experience as described by one who
knew, was as follows; ''At unexpected
. times, and on occasions when he had the
greatest reason to feel joyous lie. was irrita-
BILE and haunted with strange feelings OF
| lllnCOut6ui. I1c cttuSdFOr6u 10 CHECK THESE
feelings and appear pleasant, but it required
q great effort to do so after which lie
would again relapse into his former morbid
mood. This feeling continued for a mum.
Der of months, when he became conscious
Of an added sensation of lassitude. He was
tired even when resting, and although expe.
riencing no acute pain, had dull, aching sen,
sations in his limbs and various parts of his
i. body. Shortly .afterward his head began to
ache most frequently and his stomach failed
to digest properly. Being told that he was
| suffering from malaria he consulted an en-
nent physician, who informed him that his
kidneys were slightly effected and gave
him medicine to restore them. But he grew
worse instead of better. He then consulted
other eminent doctors of another school and
was informed that he had a brain difficulty
somewhat in the nature of a tumor, but IN
spite OF all efforts to the contrary he continued
to grow worse. AT this time his condition
YVES terrible. What We're at first simple
symptoms had developed to terrible tr0u-
bles. He was flushed and feverish, con-
stantly uneasy, and yet always weary. He
had al intense appetite one day and very
little the next His pulse was irregular, his
breathing labored, and every moment OF
existence was a burden These disastrous
| symptoms continued, his face and body be-
came dlscolored. his heart was irregular IL
its action, and his breath came in short,
convulsive Sasps He grew constantly
worse, Notwithstanding the utmost precau-
tons of his friends and finally died In the
i, greatest agony. After his death an exam
ination as to its actual cause was made,
when his brain was found to be i'll perfec:
condition, and the reason of his deceast
was OF mn entirely different nature.
The experiences which have been cited
above all had common cause and were
each the result of one disease. That dis
, ease, which SO deceitfully, yet surely re
I moved the people above mentioned was
Brights disease of the kidneys. In the case
, of Mr.. Rock the examination after death
while showing the brain to be in perfect
| condition, revealed the terrible fact that ht
was the victim of slight kidney trouble,
which had gone on unchecked, until it re
suited in acute Brights disease The lead
irg physicians and scientists of the worlc
are fast learning that more than one-hali
the deaths which occur are caused by THU
4 monstFons scourge. 1t is one of the mos
| deceitful maladies ever known to the human
race 1t manifests itself by symptoms Sc
4 slight and common al to seem unworthy o.
attention; and yet these very insignificant
symptoms are the first stages of the wors
. complaint known III the history of the world
>, Thousands of people have died from trou
= bles that are called heart disease, apoplexy
pneumonia, brain fever, and similar diseas
es, when it wss in fact Bright's disease o
d the kidneys. The ravages of this diseas,
have been greatly increased from the fac
that until recent years no way was know
, to prevent its beginning nor check its in
= crease when it had become once liked upol
the system. Within the past two years
however, We have learned of more thai
d four hundred pronounced cases of Bright
disease, many of them much worse thai
those above described, and most of WHOM
# had been given up by prominent physicians
who have been completely cured. TIL
means used to accomplish this end has bee
Warmers Safe Kidney and LIVER Cure, man
&c ufactured in Rochester, n. Y, remed
that has won its way into the confidence c
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