The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-07-13
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line readers OF IQlS paper WtTc nOIc VI
ess amazed at a most remarkable state
.ent from one of our leading citizens
which appeared in yesterdays issue. So
were the circumstances connected
With it, and so much comment did it occa-
ion on the street and in social circles, that
/ representative of this paper was COM
nissioned to investigate its details and
rerify its facts. The article referred to was
statement made by MI. B. F. Larrabee,
IF the New York and Boston Dispatch
Company, whose office is on Arch
street. Mr.. Larrabee was ound by the
newspaper man in his private office, and
on being questioned said:
"Well, sir, logically l have been dead,
but really l am as you can see me. A 1T
tie over a year ago l was taken sick. My
was not severe at first, and
thought it was the result of a slight cold.
l felt unaccountably tired at
times, although 1 took an abundance
of sleep. Then, again, 1 La dull and strange
pains in various parts of my body. My
appetite was good one day and l had none
the next and my head panied
me more or less much of the time. A while
afterward 1 noticed much that was pc
culiar about the fluids I was passing and
a sediment, scum and a strange accu-
mutation appeared in it. Still I did not
realize that these things meant anything
and I allowed the illness to run
along until on the 28th day of October fell
while walking along fremont
street. I was carried home and did not
go out of the house until the middle of De
cember. 1 then went down town and at
tempted to attend to my business until the
18th of last January, when 1 was taken
with a very severe relapse. My symptoms
were terrible. 1 was tearfully bloated; /
suffered severe pains in all parts of my
body and it was almost impossible to get
breath. For six days 1 never laid
down and never slept. 1 was constantly
attended by my regular physician. Doc
tor Johnson, and Doctor Bowditch also
came to see me nearly every day. There
was no doubt that l was suffering from
Bright's disease of the kidneys in its
worst form and last stages, accompanied
by other troubles in my liver and heart.
In spite, however, of the skill of the physi-
clans, 1 kept growing worse and finally they
tapped my side in the vicinity of the
heart, taking away forty-six ounces of
water. This relieved me for the time, but
I soon became as bad as before. Then the
doctor gave me up entirely, declared 1
could not live more than tw%enty-four
hours, and my daughter, who was residing
in Paris, was telegraphed for. Still l lin
gered along for several weeks, far more
dead than alive, but never giving up hope.
One night-it was on the goth of April, I
very we'll remember-my attendant, who
was reading the paper to me, began an ar
ticle which described my disease and suf-
ferings exactly. 1t told how some severe
cases of Bright's disease had been cured,
and so clearly and sensibly did it state the
case that l determined to try the means of
cure which it described. So I sent my
man to the drug store, procured a bottle of
the medicine, unknown to my physicians
and friends, and took the first dose at 10
o'clock. At that time / was suffering in
tensely. Icould not sleep; 1 had the short
my lungs. l was terribly bloated from
head to foot, and the motion of my heart
was irregular and painful. The next
morning l was able to breathe freely; the
pain began to leave me and the floating
decreased. I continued to take the
medicine, and to-day, sir, I am as well
as l ever was in my Life. and
miraculous power'of Warmers Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure. l do not know what this
medicine is made of, or anything else about
it, but l know it saved my life when / was
given up by the doctors and had really
been dead for weeks; that it has kept me
in perfect health ever since and has cured
many of my friends to whom 1 have rec
w. AhS4S II "a NS1I
remarkable cases in Lynn and Salem, as
well as in this city, that it has cured. My
recovery is SO remarkable that it has ex-
cited much attention, and physicians as
well as others have investigated it thor
oughly. I I'M glad they have, for 1 feel
that the results of such a wonderful cure
should be known to the thousands in all
parts of the land who are suffering from
troubles of the kidneys, liver or heart. in
some of their many dangerous forms"
The representative of the press thanked
Mr.. Larrabee for his very frank and clear
statement, and was about to leave the office
when a gentleman stepped up to him and
inquired if he were seeking information
about Mr.. Larrabee's sickness and recovery.
The scribe replied that he was, ~whereupon
the gentleman said:
"And so am l, and 1 have come all the
way from Chicago for that very purpose
Kidney troubles seem to be alarmingly in.
creasing all over the country, and l have
very near relative who is afflicted much
as Mr.. Larabee was. l have been to see the
physicians of whom Mr.. Larrabee speaks
n l tell you, sir, it is simply wonderful
"What did they say" asked the mar Of
news.
Say! why, sir, they fully confirm every.
thing Mr.. Larrabee has stated. 1 went to
see DR.. D. A. johnson, at 70 Worcester
street. He was absent when l called and
so I stepped into the Commonwealth hotel,
where Mr.. Larrabee was living at the time
of his sickness. Messrs. Brugh & Garter
are the proprietors, and 1 asked them
about Mr.. Larrabee's case. Mr.. Brugh
pointed to the electric ~annunciator and
said: why, for weeks and weeks every
time that bell rang, ] said: That meani
the death of Mr.. Larrabee. No one around
the hotel ever dreamed that he would re
cover and when the doctors would come
l~-,- -1~ Ii. @D-, fL4u -vNr1l e1al,
their heads and say there was no hope
The arrangements for the funeral wer'
made, and his recovery was simply
miracle
1 hen called on DIR. johnson, who sale
that Mr.. Larrabee's case was a very remark
able one. He vas his family physician
and expected his death every hour for
number of weeks, and never called to Sc
him during that time, but he was prepar
ed for it. The doctor said the recover,
was due to Warmers Safe Kidney and Liv
er Cure, and if he had friends, male or fe
male, troubled with Albumen or any kid
ney troubles, he should certainly advis
them to use this remedy. DIR. johnson
said kidney difficulties are more common
than most people think, and that man,
symptoms which are supposed to be t
diseases arise from the kidneys. He salt
that ladies after CESSATION are special,
subject to albuminous troubles, which re
quire prompt attention.
Well, I then came down and called or
DIR. II. Ingersoll Bowditch on Boylstol
street. The old doctor was inclined to b
reticent, but fully confirmed all l had pre-
viously learned. He had attended MI
Larrabee, and. supposed him beyond al
hope, and he was afterwards restored, a
he said, by Warmers Safe Kidney an
Liver Cure.
next went to see DR.. Melville E. Webb
at the Hotel Cluny, for you see 1 was de
termined to be thorough in the matter.
found DIR. Webb a most clear-headed ant
well-informed gentleman, and he said:
az know of Mr.. Larrabee's case from
having thoroughly investigated it as
medical director of a Life Insurance com
pany, and it is one of the most remarkabl
cases I have ever met. Mr.. Larrabee hat
all the manifestations of a complication o
diseases, an in their worst forms. He hat
albumen and casts in the urine, and a tel
ribly diseased liver and spleen. Indeed
he was SO bad that he threw himself upol
the floor, and with his head upon a hassock
struggled for breath. 1t was on the nigh
when he was so bad and when all his med
ical advisers had long given him up that h