Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-26
TIE FLOWER CITY FURORE.
The Comm Otion caused by the state
ment Of a Physician.


professional circles AM on the street. APP
parently it caused more commotioR in
Rochester, az 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 America, 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 It would be impos-
sble to enumerate the personal inquiries
which have been made at our flee as to
the validity of the article, but they have
been so numerous that further investiga-
tioU of the subject was deemed an editorial
necesritv.
With this end in view representative
of this paper called on DR.. Henion. at his
residence on St. Paul street, when the fol-
lowing interview occurred: That article
of yours, doctor, has created quite
whirlwind. Are the statements about the
terrible condition you were in, and The
way you were rescued such as you can sus-
tain?"
Every one OF them and many addition
al ones. Few people ever get so near the
grave and then return, aud 1 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 I was sick. Il 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 any,
thing to do with the fearful Bright's dis
ease which took so firm hold on your
Anything? Why, they are the sure
indications of the first stages of that
dreadful malady. The fact is. few people
know or realize what ails them, and am
sorry to say that too few physicians do
either"
That is a strange statement, Doctor"
But it is a true one. The medical
profession 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 should
strike at the root. The symptoms l have
Just mentioned or any unusual action or
irritation of water channels indicate the
approach of Bright's disease even more
! than a 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 symptoms, but go directly to the
kidneys, the source Of most of these all
ments."
''This, then, is what you meant when
you said that more than one-half the
deaths which occur arise from Bright's
| disease, is it doctol?"
Precisely. Thousands OF so-called
diseases are torturing people to-day, when
in reality it is Bright's disease in some
one of its many forms. It is a Hydra
headed monster, and the slightest symp-
toms should strike terror to every one who
has them. / can look back and recall
hundreds of deaths which physicians de-
clared at the time were caused by paraly-
| sis. apoplexy, heart disease, pneumonia,
malarial fever and other common com
plants which | see now were caused by
Bright's disease"
''And did all these casse have simply
symptoms at frst?'
every one of them, and might have
been cured as | was by the timely use of
the same remedy-Warner' 3 Safe Kidney
| and Liver Cure. | am getting my eyes
thoroughly opened in this matter, and
think L am helping others to see their
possible danger also. Why, there are no
end of truths bearing on this subj ect. If
you want to know more about it so and
see Mr.. Warner himself He was sick
the same as |; and is the healthie8t man
in Rochester to-day. He has made
study of this subject and can give you
more facts than L can. Go, too, and see
DIR. baltimore, the chemist at the Uni
versity. If you want facts there are any
quantity of them showing the alarming
increase of Bright's disease, its simple
and deceptive symptoms, and that there is
but one way by which it can be eacaped.
Fully satisfied of the truth and the
force of the Doctors words. the reporter
babe him good day and called on Mr..
Warner at his establishment on Exchange
street. AT first Mr.. Warner was inclined
to be reticent, but learning that the in
formation desired was about the alarming
increase Of Bright's disease, his manner
changed instantly and he spoke very
earnestly.
1T is true that Bright's disease has in
creased wonderfully, and we find, by reli-
able statistics, that in the past ten years
It's growth has been $50 per cent. Look
at the prominent men it has carried eff
Everett, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Carpen-
ter, Bishop Haven and others, This is
terrible, and shows greater growth than
that OF any other known complaint. 1t
should be plain to every one that some
thing must be done to che OK this increase
or there is no knowing where it may end"
DO you think many people are afflict-
&c with 1t to-day who do not realize it,
Mr.. Warner"
Hundreds OF thousands. I have a
striking example Of this truth which has
come TO my notice. A prominent profess
or in a New Orleans medical college was
lecturing before his class on the subject of
Bcight's disease. He had various fluids
under microscopic analysis, and was
showing the students what the indications
of the terrible malady were. In order 10
show the contrast between healthy and
unhealthy fluids, he had provided vial
the contents of which were drawn from his
own person. And now, gentlemen he
said, as We have seen the unhealthy Indi-
cations, | will show you how 1t appears in
a state of perfect health, and he submit
ted his own fluid to the test. As he
watched the results his countenance sud
denly chaDged-his color and command
both left HIM, and IN painful voice he
said, Gentlemen, [ have made painful
discovery. l have Bright's disease of the
kidneys, and in less than year he las
dead"
You believe then that it has no svmp-
toms of lis own and is frequently un-
known even by the person who is stfi lcted
with it ?"
1T has no symptoms of its own and very
often none at all. Usually no two peo-
pie have the same symptoms, and fire.
quentiy the first symptona is death. The
slightest indications of any kidney q fl