Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-03-28
RAlS CELLAR EoUS.
A REMARKABLE STATEMENT.
The Unusual Experience Of a Prominent
Nan Made Public.

Kan Iua6e Public.
The following article from the Democrat
and Chronicle, OF Rochester, n. Y. is of so
striking nature. and cmanatcs from SO re :
liable source, that it is herewith re>pub,
lished entire. 10 addition to tho valuable
matter it contains, it will DO found exceed
ingly interesting.
To the Editor Of the Democratic and
Chronicle:
SIR My motives for the publication Of
the most unusual statements which follow are
first. gratitude for the fact tha. have been
saved from moet horrible death and
secondly, desire to warn sl who read this
statement against some of the most deceptiye
influences by which they have ever been sur,
rounded 1t is a fact that to-day thousands
of people arc within foo, of tho grave and
they d" not know it. To tell how | was
caught away firm just this position aud to
warn others ogaintt uenrug it. Gro NV oEieots
in this communication
On the frat day Of June 1881. lay at my
residence in this city surrounded by nv
friends and waitiRg for death. Heaven oDly
Knows the agony then endured, for words
can never describe it. Aud vet, if A few
years previous. any one had told me that |
was to be brought SO low, and by so terrible
disease. | should have sco3pd ut the idea
mad always hcen uucOmm0nly strong ard
healthy. had weighed over 200 pounds nDd
hardly knew. In my cwn experience, what
pain or pickncss were. Very many peoDle
WHO will read this statement realize at times
thai they are unusually tired snd canno: so,
count for it. They feel dull and iudcfnite
pains In varIous parts oF the body and 90 not
understand 1t. Or they are exceedingly huns
cry one day and entirely without aprct;te :he
next. This was just the way felt hen the
roiontless maiady which had fasteued 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 n dull! aud at times neuraG,ic
pain in my head, but as it would come one
day and be gone the next, | paid but little
attention to it. However, nv stomach wss
out OF order ard my fOud often failed to di>
gcst, causing at times great incOnvenience- in
Yet had no idea. even as a physician, that
these things meant anything scrinus or that
monstrous disease was becoming f. sed upon
me. CandidIy, | thought | wGs sufferiup'
from MRIArln and SO doctored myself accord,
lngIy. But got DO better next noticed
peculiar color and odor about the fluids |
was pasSiug-also that there were LARGE oman.
titles one day and very little the next. aud
that persistent froth and scum apueared
upoE the surface, and a sediment gculed in
the bottom. And yet did not realize nv
danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms
continually, finally became accustomed to
them, and my suspicion was wholly d;sarmed
by the fact that had no pain 10 tho affoc,ed
organs or in their vicinity Whv | should
have becn so blind | cannot understand.
There is terrible future for all phvs;col
VInR Il i
person to his senses even though it NAV
then be too late. l realized. at last. nv crit
Iosl condition and aroused myself to over
como it. And, Oh how hard | tried
consulted the best medical skill 10 the land
l visited all the prominent mineral springs in
America and travelled from Maine to Califor,
MIA. Still grew worse No two phyaicians
agreed as to my malady. Oae said I was
troubled with spinal irritation another. rer-
vous prostretion another. malaria another
dyspepsia another, heart disease another.
general debility; another, onges;i0n Of the
base OF the brain ; and on through 4 long
list of common diseases, the sym ptons of ali
of which | really had. In this way several
years passed during all of which time I was
steadily growing worse. My condition had
really become pitsble The slight symutoms
| at first experienced were developed into
Iett'Die ana constant dIEoToer5-the little
twigs of pain had grown to oaks OF agony
My weight had been reduced from 2G7 10
l3O pounds. Ny life was torture to mvs.lf
and friends. could retain no food upon nv
stomach, and lived wholly by injections
was living Esass of pain My Pulse was un>
controllable. In my agony l frequently fell
upon the floor. convuisiveIy cIutched the car
pet, aud prayed for death. Morphine had
little or no effect in deadening the pain
For SIX days and nights had the death-pre-
mouisory hieeougho constantly. Ny urine
was Tiled with tube casts and albrG,eu.
was struggling with Bright, Disease Of III,
X Idnoys ir its last Stages
While suffering thu, received call from
Ey pastor, the Rev DR. Foots, rector of st
Paula Church, of this city. telt that it
was our last interview, but in course of com
versatlon he mentioned a remedy of which
had heard much but had never used. DR.
foofe detailed to me the many remarkable
cures which had come under his observation
by means of this remedy. and urged me 10
try II ASH practicing physician and grad
nate OF the schools. cherished the prejudice
ooth uaturnl and oommOn with all regular
practitioners, and derided the idea of any
medicine outside the regular channels being
the least beneficial SO snIieitous however.
was Or. Foote, that l finally promised l