Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-22
THE FLOWER CITY FURORE.
The Commotion Caused by the Statement of a
Physician.

paper recently ana has Deen the SUBJECT oil
much conversation both III professional circles
and on the street Apparently it caused more
commotion In Rochester, as the following from
the same paper shows:
Dr. j. B. Henion, who is well known not only
in Rochester, but in nearly every part of Amer
lea, sent an extended article to this paper few
days since which was duly published, detailing
his remarkable experience 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
validity of the article, but they have been SO
numerous that further investigation of the
suit ject was deemed an editorial necessity.
With this end in view representative of this
paper called on DR.. Henon, at his residence on
st. Paul Street. when the following interview
occurred: ''That article of yours, Doctor, has
created quite whirlwind. Are the statements
about the terrible condition you we're in, and
the way you were rescued such as you can sus-
tain?"
Everyone of them and many additional
ones. Few people ever get so near the grave
as did and then return, and / am not sur
prised 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 simple
symptoms. did not think l 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 indefinite pains
and my stomach WAS out of order, but did
not think it meant any thing serious"
"But have these common ailments anything
| to do with the fearful Brght's disease which
took SO fearful hold on you?"
Anything? Why, they are the sure indica-
| tions of the tirststages of that dreadful maady.
The fact is, few people know or realize what
ails them, and am sorry to say that too,few
| physicians do either"
10 CTR tote doctor
| But it is true one. The medical profess
sion 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 symp-
| toms l have just mentioned or any unusual
action or irritation of the water channels indi-
| Gates 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 relieve the headache,
stomach, pains about the body or other symp-
toms, but go directly to the kidneys, the source
of most of these ailments"
| " This, then, is what you meant when you
said that more than one-half of the deaths
which occur arise from Brights disease, Is it
doctor"
Precisely. Thousands of so-called diseases
are tOrturlng people to-day, when in reality II
| is Bright's disease in some one CT its many
forms. 1t is a Hydra-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 de-
| clared at tue time were caused by paral ysls,
| apopleXy, heart disease, pneumonia, malarial
fever aud other common complaints which |
see now were caused by Bright's disease"
And did all these cases have simple
| symptoms at tirst?"
Every one of them, and might have been
cured as 1 was oy the timely nse of the same
remedy-Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
| | am getting my eyes thoroughly opened in this
matter and think I am helping others to see
the facts and their possible danger also. Why,
there are no end of truths bearing on this SUBJ
ject. If you want to know more about 1t go
and see Mr.. Warner himself. He was sick the
same as l, and is the healthest man in
| Rochester to-day. He has made a study Of
this subject and can give you more facts than
can. Go, too, and see DR.. baltimore, the
chemist, at the university. If you want facts
there are any quantity of them showing the
alarming increase of Bright's disease, ats
simple and deceptive symptoms, and that there
is bat 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 establish
ment on Exchange Street. At first Mr.. Warner
was inclined to be reticent, but learning that
the information desired was about the alarming
| increase OF Brights disease, his manner
changed instantly and he spoke very earnestly:
creased wonderfully, and we find, by reliable
statistics that in the past Ten years It's 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 known complaint 1t
should be plain 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
with it to-day who do not realize it, Mr.sWar-
ner?'
IS Hundreds of thousands. l have striking
example of this truth which has just come to
| my notice. prominent professor IN New
Orleans medical college was occurring before
his class on the subject of Brights disease. He
had various fluids under microscopic analysis,
and was showing the students what the lndlca-
lions of this terrible malady WERE In order to
show the contrast between healthy ana I'M
| healthy fluids, he had provided a vial the con-
| tents of which were drawn from his own per-
son. And now, gentlemen he said, as we
! have seen the unhealthy indications, / will
show you how it appears in 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 command both left him, and
in trembling voice he said: Gen
| tlemen, I have made a painful dis
covery; have Bright's disease of the kidneys,
and in less than year he was dead"
''You believe then that it has no symptoms
of its own and is frequently unknown even by
the person who is afflicted with it?"
E'It has no symptoms of its own and very Of
ten none at all. Usually no two people have
| the same symptoms, and frequently death is
the first symptom. The slightest indications
of any kidney difficulty should be enough to
! strike terror to any one / know what / am
talking about, for have been through all the
stages of kidney disease.
.EYou know of DR.. Henion's case p
eyes, 7 have both read and heard of 1t"
] 'tIt is very wonderful is it not?"
GA very prominent case, but no more so
than 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 cred?"
II know it can. I know it from the expert
ence of hundreds of prominent persons who
wero given up to die by both their physicians
! and friends"
'sYou speak of your own experience; what
was it ?"
"a fearful one. / had felt languid and I'M
| fitted for business for years. But / did not
e