The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-22
A REMARKABLE STATEMENT.
The Unusual Experience of a Prominent
Man Made Public.

dition to the valuable matter it con-
tains, it will be found exceedingly in
teTesting.
To the Editor Of the Democrat and
Chronicle:
Sm:-MY motives for the publication
of the most unusual statements which
follow are first, gratitude for the fact
that L have been saved from a most
horrible death, and, secondly, a desire
to warn all vino read this statement
gains some of the most deceptive iu-
1luences by which they have ever been
surrounded. 1t is a fact hat to-day
thousands of people are within "A o OF
the grave aud they do not know II. To
tell how | was caught aSay from Just
tuis position and 10 warn OtueTs against
nearing it, are my objects in this COM.
municatiun.
On the first day Of June 1881, | lay
at my residence In this city surrounded
by my friends and waiting for death.
Heaven only knows the agony | then
endured, Tor words can never describe
it. Aud yet, II II few years previous,
any one bad told me thai 1 was 10 be
brought so iUw, and Oy 20 terrible Il dis
ease, 1 should have scoffed at the idea.
| had always been uncommOnly strong
and healthy, had weighed over 200
pounds and hardly knew, In my own
experience, what pain or sickness were.
Very many people who will read this
statement realize at times that t! ey are
uuu ually tired and cannot account for
it, They feel dull and indefinite pains
in various PARTS Of the body and do not
understand it. Or they are exceeding
ly hungry one day and entirely without
appetite the uext. This was just way
| felt when the relentless malady which
had fastened itself upon me first began.
sim / thought IL vas nothing; that
probably / had taken a cold which
would 500 pass away. Shortly after
this l noticed u dull, aud at times ne
uralgic, pain in my head, but rs 1t
would come one day and be gone the
next, ] paid but little attention to it.
However, my stomach was out of order
and my food often failcdto digest, caus-
lug ut times great Inconvenience. Yet
I had no idea, even as a physician, that
these things meant anything serious or
that II monstrous disease was becoming
liked upon me. Candidiy, thought /
was suffering from Malaria aud so doc
Iored myself accordingly. But | got
no better. / next noticed a peculiar
color and odoT about the fluids | WAS
pls ,iug-alsO that there were large
quantities one day and very little tie
next, and that Il persistent frOtlI and
scum appeared the surface, and Il sedi-
ment settled in the bottom. Aud yet |
did not realize my danger, for, indeed,
seeing these symptoms continually,
iintliy became accustomed to them, and
my suspicion was wholly disqrmed by
the fact that | had no pain in tho af-
fected organs or in their vicinity. Why
1 should have been so blind | cannot
understand.
There is "A terrible future for all phys
Ical neglect, and impending danger us.
1ally brings a person TO his senses even
though 1t may then be too late. I real
lzed, at last, my critical condition and
aroused myself to overcome it. And,
Obi how hard | tried! L consulted the
best medical skill In the land. | visited
all the prominent mineral springs in
America and Travelled from Maine to
California. Still | grew worse. No
two physicians agreed as to my malady.
One said | was troubled with spinal ir.
ritation; another, rvo prostitution;
another, malaria; another, dyspepsia;
another, heart disease; another, general
debility; another, congestion OF the
base Of the brain; and 50 on through a
long list of common diseases, the symp.
toms of which l really had. In this
way several years passed, during all of
which time | was steadily growing
worse. My condition had really be.
n.V,,n tfIf,lla rho g1iv1H g,Y,vt..., z
at first experienced were developed into
terrible and constant disOrders-the
little twigs of pain has grown to oaks of
agony. My weight had been reduced
from 2U7 to 1870 pounds. My life was u
fortune to myself and friends. | could
retain no food upon my stomach, and
lived wholly by injections. | was n
living mass of pain. My pulse was an
"contrnllable. In my agony | frequent
ly fell upouthe floor. convulsively clutch
I'd the carpet, aud prayed for death.
Morphine had little or no effect in dead
ening the pain. For six days and nights
had the death ~premonltory ~hiccoughs
conrtantly, My urine was filed with
tube casts and albumen. / was strug-
Cling with Bright's Disease of the Kid
neys in its last stages.
While suffering thus | received n call
from my pastor, the Rev. DIR. Foote,
rector of st. Paul's church, of this city.
| felt that ii was our last interview,
but in the course of conversation he
mentioned n remedy of which | had
never nsed. DIR. FOote detailed to me
the many remarkable cures which had
come under his observation, by means
of this remedy, and urged me to try it.
As a practicing physician and a gradu.
ate OF the schools, | cherished tile pre-
JUDGE both natural and common with
all regular practitioners, and derided
the idea of any medicine, outside the
regular channels being the least beneii.
Cill. So sD,icitous, however, was DR..
Foote, Il 90 / finally promised | would
waive M "Tyjudlce and try the remedy
he so higIry recommended. l began lis
use on the lirs. LAY OF June and took il
according to directions. At first it
sickened me; but this | thought was a
good sign for II in my debilltated con
dition. l continued to take it; the sick
entng sensation departed and | was able
to retain food upon my stomach. In u
few days | noticed a decided change for
the better as also did my wife and
friends. My hiccoughs ceased and l ex-
prienced less pain than formerly. /
was so reioicgi at this improved condi
ton that, upon what / had believed but
u few days before wa my dying bed, |
vowed, in the presence of my family
and friends, should l recover | would
both publicly and privately make known
this remedy for the good of humanity,
wherever and whenever l had an OPP
p~ortumity. | also determined that |
would gives course of lectures in the
Cnrinthiau academy Of music of this
city, stating in full the symptoms and
almost hopelessness of my disease and