Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-27
TaE FLOWER CITY FURORR.
The COmmoti0n Caused by the state
ment or a PhyaScfau

n. Y, Democrat and Chronicle, was pub
ilshed IN this paper recently and has been
the subject of much conversation both in
professions circles and on the street. Ap-
parently it csused more connection in
Rochester, as 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. 1t would be impos-
sibie to enumerate the personal inquiries
which have been risas at our ffies as to
the validity OF the article, but they h. ve
been so numerous that further investiga-
tiou of the subject was deemed au editorial
necesritv.
With this end in view representative
OF this paper called on DIR. Henion, at his
residences on St. Paul street, when the fol-
lowing interview occurred: That article
of yours, doctor, hiss created quite q
whirlwind. Are the statements about the
terrible condition you we're IN, and the
way you were rescued such as you can sus-
tsin?"
Every one OF them and many addition
al ones. Few people ever get so near the
grave and then return, and / am not sur
prised that the public think it marvellous.
It was marvellous"
How in the world did you, physician,
come to be brought so low"
by neglecting the first and most simple
symptoms. l did not think l was sick. 1t is
true l 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 l 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 you?'
"Anythin9f Why, they are the sure
indications of the first stages of that
dreadful malsdy. 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
Just mentioned or any unusual action or
irritation of 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 to relieve the
headache, stomach, pains about the body
or other symptoms, but go directly to the
kidneys, the source Of most of these sill
ments.'
''This, then, is Whist you meant when
you said that more than one-half the
deaths which occur arise from Bright
disease, is it doctoIf'
Precisely. Thousands of so-called
| diseases are torturing people to-day, when
in reality it is Bright's disease in come
one of its many forms. 1t is 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
Dright'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
|
and Liver Cure. l am getting my eyes
think / am helping others to see their
possible danger also. Why, there are No
end of truths bearing on this subject II
you want to know more about It 20 and
see Mr.. Warner himself. He was sick
the same as l and is the healthiest man
in Rochester to-day. He has made q
study of this subject and can give you
more facts than l can. Go, too, and see
| DR.. baltimore, the chemist at the u nj.
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 escaped.
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 IL has carried off
Everett, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Carpen-
ter, Bishop Haven and others, This is
terrible, and shows greater growth than
that Of any ether known complaint. II
should be plain to every one that some
thing must be done to check this increase
or there is no knowing where it may end. u
| do you think many people are atf1lct-
4 -..l~ =. lo,~ I.
Mr.. Warner"
Hundreds Of thousands. l have a
| striking example of this truth which has
come to my notice. A prominent profess
| or in u New Orleans medical college wai
| lecturing before his class on the subject Of
| Bright's disease. He had various fluids
| under microscopic anal isis. and was
| showing the students what the indications
| of the terrible malady were. In order to
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 Jndi-
cations, will show you how it 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 changed-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
kidneva,' and in less than year he was
dead"
You believe then that it has no symp-
toms Of lis own and is frequently IN
known even by the person who is effi cited
with it ?"
1T has no symptoms of it's own and very
often none at all. Usually no two peo-
quentiy the first symptom is death. The
slightest indications of any kidney d fiji
Guilty should be enough to strike terror to
any one. / know what ! am talking
about, for I have been through ali the
stages OF kidney disease"
You know of DIR. Henion's case 2"
"Yes. l have both heard and read of it."
1T is very wonderful, ia it not P'
1T is a very prominent case but no
more 80 than many otkers that have come
to my notice as having been cured by the
same means"
You believe then that Bright's dis
ease can be cureiF
Il know it can. know it from the ex-
perience Of hundreds of prominent per-
soDs who were given up to die by both
their physicians and friends"
You speak of your own experience,
what was it ?"
"a fearful one. 1 had felt languid and
untitled for business for years. Bat /
did not know what allied me- When.
however, l found 1t was kidney difficult
ty l thought there was little hope and SO
did tha dactors I have since learned