Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
EXCITEMENT IN ROCHESTER,.
Inc COmmOtiOn Caused by the state.
ment of Physician.

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city. during the day, both in professional
circles and on the street. Apparently it
caused even more commotion in Roches-
ter, as the following from the same paper
shows:
DIR. j. b. Henion, who is well-known
not only in Rochester but in nearly every
part OF America, sent an extended article
10 TINS paper, few days since, which was
duly published, detailing his remarkable
! experience and rescue from what seemed
to be certain death. 1t would be impossi-
bic 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 investiga-
tloh OF the subject was deemed an editori-
al necessity.
| With this end in view a representative
OF this paper called on DIR. Henion, at his
residence on st. Paul street, when the fol-
lowing interview occurred: THAT article
OF yours, Doctor, has created quite a
WhIrlwlnd. 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 addi-
tional ones. Few people ever get so near
the grave as did and then return. and
am not surprised that the public think it
marvellous. 1t was marvellous"
How III the world did you, physician,
come to be brought so low ?''
BY neglecting the first and most SIM
| pie 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
thing 1t meant anything serious.'
But have these common ailments any,
thing to do with the fearful Bright's dis
ease which took so firm hold on you ?"
Anything? Why, they are the sure
indications of the first stages of that
dreadful malady. The fact is, few people
know or realize what ais them, and | am
sorry to say that too few physicians do,
either"
That is a strange statement, Doctor"
| But it is 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 we should
strike at the root. The symptoms [ have
Just mentioned or any unusual action or
irritation of the water channels indicate
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 10 re-
lieVe the headache, stomach, pains about
the body or other symptoms, but go d.
rectiy to the kidneys, the source of most
of these ailments"
This, then, is what YOU meant when
you said that more than one-half the
deaths which occur arise from Bripht's
disease, is it, Doctor?"
Precisely. Thousands of so-caIIed
diseases are torturing people to-day. when
In reality it is Bright's disease in some of
It's many forms. 1t is a hydra headed
monster, and the slightest symptoms should
strike terror to every one who has them.
l can look back and recall hundreds of
deaths which physicians declared at the
time were caused by paralysis, appoplexy,
heart dlsoase, pneu monia, malarial fever,
and other common complaints which /
see now were caused by Bright's disease"
:And did all these cases have simnle
symptoms at irs?"
! Every one of them, and might have
been cured as I was by the timely use of
the same reme0y-Warner's Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure. l am getting nv ewes
thoroughly opeaed in this matter and
think lam helping others to rec the fac 5
and their possible danger also. Why,
there are no end of truths bearing on this
subject. LII you want to know more about
it go and see Mr.. Warner himself. He
was sick the SINE as |, and is the health
lest 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 alarm
ing increase of Bright's disease, its SIM
| pie and deceptive symptoms, and that
there IS but 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 establishment on Exchange street
AT hrst Mr.. Warner was inclined to be reti-
cent, but learning that the information
| 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 re-
liable statistics, that in the past ten years
its growth has been 250 per cent. Look at
the prominent men it has carried off
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
must be plan 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
cd with it to-day who do not realize it,
Mr.. Warner"
Hundreds of thousands. I bave a
striking example of this truth which has
come to my notice. A prominent pro-
fessor IN a New Orleans medical college
was featuring before his class on the sub
lect OF Brlght's disease. He had various
| fluids under microscopic analysis and was
showing the students what the indications
| OF this terrible malady were. In order
to draw 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
| indications. L will show you how it ap-
pears in a 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 COM
mand both left him aud in trembling
| voice he said: Gentlemen, | have made
painful discovery; have Bright's disease
of the Kidneys and in less than year he
was dead"
You believe then that it has no symp-
| toms of It's own and is frequently I'M
known even by the person who is affii cted
with it?"
''It has no symptoms of its own and
very often none at all Usually no two
people have the same symptoms, and fire.
quently death is the first symptom. The
| slightest indications of any kidney diff
Guilty should be enough to strike terror to