Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-28
EXCITEMENT ROCHESTER,
THE COMMOTION CAUSED By THE STATE
MENT OF A PHYSICIAN.


An unusual article from the Roches-
ter, n. Y, Democrat and Chronicle was
republished in this paper, and was a
subject of much conversation both in
professional circles and on the street.
Apparently it caused even more com
motion in Rochester, as the following
from the same paper shows:
DR. J. b. HCniOn, who is we'll known
not only in Rochester but in nearly
every part of America, sent an extended
article to this paper Il few days since
which was duly published, detailing
his remarkable experience and rescue
from what seemed to be certain death.
1t would be impossible to enumerate
the personal inquiries which have been
made at our Office as TO the validity of
the article, but they have been so nu-
merous that further investigation of
the subject was deemed an editorial
necessity.
With this end in view a representa-
tive of this paper called on DR.. Henion,
at his residence on st. Paul street,
when the following interview occur
red:
THAT article of yours, Doctor, has
created quite whirlwind.. Are the
statements about the terri BILE condition
you were in, md the way you were
rescued, such rs You can sustain?'
Every one Of them and many addi-
tiOnal ones. Few people ever get so
near the grave as [ did and then re-
turn, and | am not surprised that the
public think it marvellous. 1t was mar
velous."
"How in the world did You, physi-
clan, come to be brought so low ?"
"By neglecting the first and most
simple symptoms l did not think I
was sick. 1t is true 1 had frequent
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 anything
serious"
"But have these common ailments
anything to do with the fearful Bright's
disease which took so firm a hold on
you ?"
anything? Why, they are the sure
indications of the first stages of that
dreadful malady. The fact is, few peo-
pie know or realize what ails them,
and am sorry to say that too few ply
sicians do either"
THAT is Il strange statement, Doe
tor
But it is true one. The medical
profession have been treating symp-
toms instead of diseases for years, and
it Is high time it ceased. We doctors
have been clipping off the twigs when
we should strike ut the root. The
symptom / have just mentioned or
any unusual action or irritation OF the
water channels indicate the approach
of Brights disease even more than
cough announces the coming of con-
sumption. We dOnot 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 di-
rectly 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 Bright's
disease, is it Doctor?"
Precisely. Thousands Of sO-called
! diseases are torturing people to-day,
when in reality it is Brights disease in
some one of its mans forms. 1t is a
hvdra-headed monster, and the slightest
symptoms should strike terror to every
one who has them. | can look back
and recall hundreds of deaths which
physicians declared at the time were
caused by paralysis. apoplexy, heart
disease, pneumonia, malarial fever and
other common complaints, which |
see now were coused by Brights di-
sease'
"And did all these cases have simple
symptoms at first ~
Every one of them, and might have
been cured as I was by the timely use
of the same remedy-Warner,s Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure. am getting
my eyes thoroughly opened in this
matter and think | am helping others
to see the facts and their possible dam
ger also Why, there are no end Of
| truths bearing on this subject. If you
want to know more about it go and
see Mr.. Warner himself. He was sick
| the same as /, and is the hGalthiest man
| in Rochester to day. He has made a
study of this subject and C n 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
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 force
of the Doctors words, the reporter
babe him good day and called on Mr..
! Warner at his establishment on EX-
change street At first Mr.. Warner
! was inclined to be reticent, but learn
ing that the information desired was
about the alarming increase of Brights
disease, his manner changed instantly
and he spoke very earnestly:
at is true that Bright's disease has
increased wonderfully, and we find, by
reliable statistics, that in the past ten
years its growth has been $50 per cent
Look at the prU.hinent men it has car
ried off: Everett, SUMMER, Chase, VIII
son, Carpenter, Bishop Haven, and
others. This is terrible and shows a
greater growth than that Of any other
known complaint. 1t must be plain
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 at
flicted with it to-day who do not realize
it, Mr.. Warner?'
Hundreds of thousands. / have q
striking example of this truth which
has Just come to my notice. A promi-
nent professor in a New Orleans med
ical college was lecturing before his
class on the subject OF Bright's disease
He had various fluids under micro
scopic analysis and was showing the
students what the indications of this
terrible malady were. In order t.
draw the contrast between healthy and
unhealthy fluids, he had provided {
vial the contents of which were drawn
from his own person. And now, gen
tlemen, he said, 'as we have seen the
unhealthy indications, L will show YOU
how it appears in state OF perfec
health and he submitted his own fuit
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