Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-03-15
A Remarkable Statement.
THE unusual EXPERIENCE OF A
PROMINENT MAN MADE PUBLIC.

The following article from the Demo
crat and Chronicle, of Rochester, n. Y.
is OF so striking nature, aud emanAtes
from 50 reliable source, that it is here
with re-published entire. In addition
TO the valuable natter it contains, il
will be found exceedingly interesting.
Editor ofMe Democrat and Chronicle:
SIR:-My motives Tor the publication
of the most unusual statements Which
follow are first gratitude for the fact that
l have been saved from most horrible
death, and, secondly, Il desire to- warn
all who read this statement against
some of the most deceptive influences
by which they have ever been suTroun-
ded. 1t is fact thal to-day thousands
ot people are within foot Of the grave
aud they do not know it. To tell how
was caught away from just this posi-
tion aud to warn others against ne airing
1t. are my objects in this connection.
On the first day Of June 1881, l lay
at my residence in this city surrounded
by my friends and waiting for DEATH
Heaven only knows the agony l then
endured, for words can never describe
it. And yet, # few years previous,
any one had told me that l was TO be
brought so low, and by so terrible a
disease. l should have scoffed at the
idea. l 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 they are unusually tired and cam
not account for it. They feel dull and
indefinite pains in various parts of the
body and do not understand it. Or
they are exceedingly hungry one day
and entirely without appetite the next.
This was just the way l felt when the
relentless malady which had fastened
itself upon me first began. Sill
thought it was nothing; that probably
| had taken cold which would soon
pass away. Shortly after this | noticed
a dull, and at times neuralglc, pam in
my bead, but as it 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
failed 10 digest, causing at times great
Inconvenience. Yet l had no idea,
even as a physician, that these things
meant anything serious or that mon-
strous disease was becoming liked upon
me. Candidly, l thought was suffer-
ing from Malaria and so doctored my
self accordingly. But [ got no better
nexti noticed u peculiar color and oder
about the fluids l was passing-also
that there were large quantities one
day aud very little the next, and that a
persistent freth and scum appeared up
on the surface, and a sediment settled
in the bottom. And yet l did not re-
alize my danger, for, indeed, seeing
these symptoms continually, L finally
became accustomed to them, aud my
suspicion was wholly disarmed by the
fact that had no pain in the affected
organs or in their vicinity. Why l
should have been so blind cannot un-
derstaud.
There is terrible future for all ply
sical neglect, and impending danger
usually brings a person 10 his senses
even though it may then be TOO late.
I realized, at last, my critical condition
aud aroused myself to overcome IT.
And, Oh how hard l tried con-
suited the best medical skill in the
land. visited all the prominent mlu'
eral spliugs IN America aud Travelled
from Maine to California. Sill !
grew worse. No two physicians agreed
as tc my malady. One said was
troubled with spinal irritation; another
nervous prostattou; another, malaria;
another, spepsia; another, heart dis
ease; another, general debility; another
congestion of the base Of the brain;
and so on through long list OF COM
mon diseases, the symptoms OF all =.
which really had. In this way sey'
eral years passed, eurug all OF which
time 1 was steadily growing worse
Nv condition had really become pitia'
BILE. The slight symptoms l at hrst
experienced were developed into terri =
ble aud constant disorders the little
twys of pain had grown 10 oaks ol
AGONY. Ny weight hal been reduced
from 2O7 to l30 pounds. My life was
a torture to myself and friends.
could retain no food upon my stomach,
and lived wholly by injections. | was
a living mass OF pain. My pulse was
uncomfortable. Ia my agony | frN'
auently fell upon the floor, conYulSlve'
ly clutched the carpet, and prayed ioI
death. Morphine had little or 40 effect
in deadening the pain. For SIX days
and nights had the dcath-premonlIory
hiccouyhs constantly. My urine was
filed with tube casts and albumen.
was struggling with Brigh.'s Disease o.
the Kidneys III its last stages.
While suffering thus received a cal
from my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Foole'
rector of St. Paul's Church, OF this cIty
| felt that it was our last interview, ou
IN the course of conversation he msn'
toned remedy of which l had heard
mucb but had never used. DR.. Foo!e
de,ailed to me the many remarkable
cures which had come under his obser-
va,iou. by means of this remedy, anC
urged me 10 try ii. As practlclne
nh, sic,an aud graduate of the schools