Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-22

The Commotion Caused by the statemen
of n Phvaician


The Commotion Caused by the Statement
Of Physician.
An unusual article from the Rochester.
N. Y; Democrat and Chronicle, was repub-
lished in this paper and was subject of
much conversation, both in professional cir
cles and on the street. Apparently it caused
even more commotion In Rochester, as the
following from the same paper shows:
DIR. J. B. Henion, who is well known not
only in Rochester but in nearly every part
of America sent an extended article to this
paper few days since which was duly
published, detailing his remarkable expe-
rience and rescue from what seemed to be
certain death. 1t would be impossible to
enumerate the personal enquiries which
have been made at our Office as to the valid
ity of the article, but they have been so
numerous that further investigation of the
subject was deemed an editorial necessity.
With this end in view representative of
this paper called on DIR. Henion, at his resi-
dence on ST. Paul street, when the follow
ing interview occurred:
s'That article of yours, Doctor, has Gre
ated quite whirlwind. Are the statements
about the terrible condition you were in,
and the way you were rescued such as you
can SUSTAIN"
EVERY one of them and many additional
ones. Few people ever get SO near the
grave as 1 did and then return, and lam not
surprised that the public think it marvellous.
1t was marvellous"
"How in the world did you, physician,
come to be brought SO low ?"
g By neglecting the first and most simple
symptoms. did not think was sick. 1t
is true had frequent headaches felt tired
most of the time could eat nothing one day
and was ravenous the next felt dull, indie
finite pains and my stomach was out of or
der, but did not think it meant anything
serious
g But have these common ailments any
thing to do with the fearful Bright's disease
which took SO firm hold on you ?"
Anything? Why, they are the sure in
dications of the first stages of that dreadful
malady. The fact is, few people know or
realize what ails them, and I am sorry to say
that few physicians do either"
THAT is strange statement, Doctor"
" But it is true one. The medical pro-
fession have been treating symptoms instead
of diseases for years, and it is high time it
ceased. We doctors have been clipping off
the twiggs when we should strike at the root.
The symptoms 1 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-
isve the headache, stomach, pains about the
hodv or other Svv,, r,fonoc hr1f no diraotlv To
the kidneys, the source of most of these all
ments."
''This, then, is what you meant when you
said that more than one-haf the deaths
which occur arise from Bright's disease, is
it Doctor"
Precisely. Thousands of so-called dis
eases are torturing the people to-dsy, when
in reality it is Bright's disease in some one
of its many forms. 1t is a Hydra-headed
monster, and the slightest symptoms should
can look back and recall hundreds of deaths
which physicians declared at the time were
caused by paralysis, appoplexy, heart dis
common complaints which see now were
caused by Brights disease"
Sand did all these cases have simple
symptoms at frst?"
every one of them, and might have been
cured as / was by the timely use of the same
remedy Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure. l am getting my eyes thoroughly
opened in this matter and think I am help
ing others to see the facts and their possible
danger also. Why, there are no end of
truths bearing on this subject. If you
want to know more about it 60 and see Mr..
Warner himself He was sick the same as
/, and is the healthiest 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 yon want facts there
are any quantity of them showing the alarm
ing increase of Bright's disease, it's simple
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 MIR. Warner at his
establishment on Exchange street At first
MIR. Warner was inclined to be reticent, but
learning that the information desired was
about the alarming increase of Bright's Dis
ease, his manner changed instantly and he
spoke very earnestly:
ut is true that Brights disease has In
creased wonderfully, and we find, by reli-
able 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, Carpenter, Bishop
Haven, and others. This is terrible and
shows greater growth than that of any
other known complaint. 1t must be plain
to everyone that something must be done to
check this increase or there is no knowing
where it may end"
SsDo you think ~ opu paa,,1a ora ofHiofod
with it to-day who do not realize it. Mr..
Warner?"
Hundreds of thousands. have strik-
ing example of this truth which has Just
come to my notice. A prominent professor
in New Orleans NJ edical college was lee.
turing before his class on the subject Of
Bright's disease. He had various fluids un
der microscopic analysis and was showing
the students what the indications of this ter
ribly malady 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 said, as we have seen the unhealthy
indications, I will show you how it ap
pears in state of perfect health, and ht
submitted his own fluid to the usual test
As he watched the results, his countenanct
suddenly changed-his color and command
both left him, and in trembling voice he
said: Gentlemen, / have made a painful
discovery; l have Bright's disease of tht
Kidneys and in less than year he was
dead"
"You believe then that it has no symp
toms of its own, and is frequently unknown
even by the person who is afflicted with it. ;
g 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 first symptom. The
slightest indications of any kidney difficulty
should be enough to strike terror to any one
know what 1 am talking about, for have
been through all the stages of kidney dis
ease.n
"You know of DIR. Henion's case ~
s'Yes, I have both read and heard of it.
It is very wonderful, is it not?"
"a very prominent case, but no more sc
than great many others that have come t.
| nv notice as having been cured by the sarnt