Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-08
EXCITEMENTIN ROCHESTER
The Commotion Caused by the State
ment of Physician.

the street. Apparently it caused even more
commotion 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 10 this paper,
a few days since, which was duly published,
detailing his remarkable experience and rescue
from what seemed to be certain death. It
would be impossible 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 investigation
of the subject was deemed an editorial ne
cessitY.
With this end in view a representative OF this
paper called on DR.. Henion, at his residence on
st. Paul street, when the following interview
occurred: ''That article of yours, Doctor, has
created quite q whirlwlnd. Are the statements
about the terrible condition you were in, and
the way you were rescued such as you can
sustain:"
''Every one of them and many additional
ones. Few people ever got so near the grave
as l did and then return, and l am not surprised
that the public think it marvellous. It was
marvellous"
Chow in the world did you, q physician,
come to be brought so low?''
"By neglecting the first and most simple
symptoms. I did not think 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 I
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 hold on you?''
"Anything? Why, they are the sure indica-
tons of the first stages of that dreadful NAL
ady. The fact is, few people know or realize
what ais them, and am sorry to say that too
few physicians do either"
"That is strange statement, Doctor.
"But it is true one. The medical profess
sion 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 chan
nels indicate the approach of Brights disease
even more than coug announces II. com
ing OF consumption. We do not treat the
cough, but try to help the lungs. We should
not waste our time trying to relieve the head
ache, stomach, pains about the body or other
symptoms, but go directly 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 dis
eases are torturing people to-day, when in
reality it is Bright's disease in some one of its
many forms. It is Hydra 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
Ia oh T rod HxyP rinrh% tc Vic
ease.''
"And did all these cases have simple symp-
toms 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 dan
ger also. Why, there are no end of truths
more about it 60 and see Mr.. Warner him
self. He was sick the same as I, and is the
healthiest 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 alarming increase of Bright's dis
ease, 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 estab-
lishment on Exchange street. At first Mr..
Warner was inclined 10 be reticent, but learn
ing that the Information desired was about the
alarming increase of Bright's disease, his
manner changed instantly. and he spoke very
earnestly:
at is true that Bright's disease has in
creased wonderfully, and we find, by reliable
statistics, that in the past ten years its growth
has been $50 per cent. Look at the prominent
men it has carried off: Everett, Sumner.
Chase, Wilson, Carpenter, Bishop Haven and
Others. This is terrible and shows greater
growth than that of any other known COM
plant. It must be plain to every one that
something must be done to check this in
crease, Or there is no knowing where it may
end"
"Do you think many people are afflicted
with it to-day who do not realize it, Mr.. War
ner?"
Hundreds of thousands. l have striking
example of this truth, which has just come to
my notice. a prominent professor in New
Orleans medical college was lecturing before
his class on the subject of Bright's disease.
He had various fluids under microscopic analy-
sis, 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,
will show you how it appears in 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 command both left him, and in trem-
bling 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 1t has no symp-
toms of its own and is frequently unknown
even by the person who is afflicted with it,"
sit has no symptoms of its own, and very
often none at all. Usually no two people
have the same symptoms. and frequently
death is the first symptom. The slightest in
dications of any kidney difficulty should be
enough to strike terror to any one. know
what / am talking about, for l have been
through all the stages OF kidney disease
"You know of DR.. Henion's case:"
eyes, have both read and heard OF it,
"It is very wonderful, is it not:'
GA very prominent case, but no more so
than great many others that have come to
my notice as having been cured by the same
means"
"You believe, thea, that Bright's disease
can be cured
81 know it can. l know it from the ex-
perience OF hundreds of prominent persons
who were given up to die by both their physi-
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