Connecticut western news., 1882-11-15
A PROFESSIONAL CONFESSION.
Tho Unusual Experience of u Prominent
 Man MnIH Public.

liable a source, that it is herewith re-pub- lished entire. In addition to the valuable matter it contains, it will be found exceed ingly interesting. To tue Editor Of the Democrat and Chronicle: SIR My motives for the publication of the most unusual statements which follow are, first, gratitude for the fact that l have been saved from a most horrible death, and, sec ondly, desire to warn all who read this statement against some of the most decep- tive influences by which they have ever been surrounded. It is a fact that to-day thou sands of people are within a foot of the grave and they do not know it. To tell how I was caught away from just this position and to warn others against nearing it, are my objects in this communication.
 On the first day of June 1881, I lay at my residence in this city surrounded by my friends and waiting for my death. Heaven only knows the agony then endured, for words can never describe 1t. And yet, If few years previous, any one had told me that I was to be brought so low, and by so terri ble a disease, I should have scoffed at the idea. Ihad always been uncommonly strong and healthy, had weighed over200 pounds and hardly knew, ill my own experience, what pain or sickness were. Very many people who will read this statement realize at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for it. They feel dull and in definite pains in various parts of the body
 
 ceedingly hungry one day and entirely with out appetite the next This was just the way felt when the relentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still thought 1t was nothing; that probably I had taken a cold which would soon pass away. Shortly after this I noticed dull, and at times neuralgia, pain i'll my head, but as it would come one day and be gone the next, paid but little attention to it. However, my stomach was out of order and f T .1a1 II times great inconvenience. Yet l had no idea, even as physician, that these things meant anything serious or that monstrous disease was becoming fixed upon me. Candidly, I thought was suffer- ing from Malaria and so doctored myself accordingly. But I got no better. I next noticed q peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing-also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next and that a persistent froth and scum appeared upon the surface, and sediment | settled ill the bottom. And yet did not re- alize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these | symptoms continually, finally became ac- | customed to them, and my suspicion was 1 wholly disarmed by the fact that had no | pain in the affected organs or in their 1 vicinity. Why I should have been so blind l ] cannot understand.
 I There is terrible future for all physical | neglect, and impending danger always brings q person to his senses even though 1t may | then be too late. l realized, at last, my crit ical condition and aroused myself to over- come it. And, Oh how hard tried l con- i suited the best medical skill i'll the land. I | visited all the prominent mineral springs in | America and travelled from Maine to Cali fornia. Still grew worse. No two physi- | clans agreed as to my malady. One said I | was troubled with spinal irritation; another, nervous prostration another, malaria; an | other dyspepsia; another, heart disease; an other, general debility another, congestion | of the base of the brain and so on through a | long list of common diseases the symptoms of all of which I really had. In this way several years passed, during all of which 1 time was steadily growing worse. My con dition had really become pitiable. The slight symptoms l at first experienced were developed into terrible and constant dis orders-the little twigs of pain had grown to oaks of agony. My weight had been re- | duced from 2O7 to l30 pounds. My life was a torture to myself aud friends. could re- 1 thin no food upon my stomach, and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable In my agony Frequently fell upon the floor convulsively clutched the carpet, and prayec for death. Morphine had little or no effect in deadening the pain. For six days ant nights I had the death-premonitory hic coughs constantly. My urine was filled witl tube casts and albumen. l was struggin! with Bright's Disease of the Kidneys ill its last stages.
 l WnLe SuHerlnP thus fecelVed cal from my pastor, Rev. Dr. Foote, recto of St. Paul's church, of this city. I fel that it was our last interview, but in tn course of conversation he mentioned
 remedy of which 1 had heard much bu had never used Dr. Foote detailed to m
 inc many remarkable cures which had com under his observation, by means of thi remedy, and urged me to try it. As prac ttcing physician and a graduate of tn schools, cherished the prejudice both nat ural and common with all regular practition CTS, and derided the idea of any medicine out side the regular channels being the leas
 beneficial. So solicitous, however, was Dl
 Foote, that l finally promised that woul waive my prejudice and try the remedy he s
 highly recommended. began its use on tn nrst day of June and took it according t !, directions. At first it sickened me; but thi I thought was good sign for me in my de bilitated condition. l continued to take il the sickening sensation departed and wa able to retain food upon my stomach. In few days l noticed decided change for tn better, as also did my wife and friends M
 hlccoughs ceased and experienced less pail than formerly. was so rejoiced at this i'm proved condition that. upon what l had be l lieved but a few days before was my dyin bed, vowed, in the presence of my famil , and friends, should recover would both pub licly and privately make known this remed for the good of humanity, wherever ant l, whenever had an opportunity. l also de
 
 lures in the Corinthian Academy of Musi , of this city, stating in full the symptoms an
 almost hopelesSneSs of my disease and tn
 remarkable means by which l have bee
 saved. My improvement was constant iron
 that time, and in less than three months
 had gained 26 pounds in flesh, became en tirely free from pain, and | believe l owe m } life and present condition wholly to Warner 5 Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remed which used.
 ' Since uy recovery I have thoroughly re investigated the subject of kidney dillicul 5 ties and Brights dsease and the truths de t veloped are astounding. l therefore state } deliberately and as physician, that believ , that more than one-half tho deaths whith oC
 cur ill America are caused by Brights dis
 case of the kidneys This may sound like } rash statement, but am prepared to full verify it. Bright's disease has no distinctly symptoms of its own (indeed, 1t often de
 Velops without any pain whatever i'll the kid neys or their vicinity) but has the symptom
 of every other known complaint Hundred
 of people die daily, whose burials ar
 authorised by a, physcian's certificate c
 Heart Disease, "'. .Apopexy," Paralysis,
 Spinal Complaint" Rheumatism,
 Pneumonia" and other common con
 plaints, when in reality it was Bright's Dis
 ease of the Kidneys. Few physicians, an
 fewer people, realize the extent of this diseas
 or it's dangerous and insidious nature
 steals into the system like a thief, manifest
 its presence by the commonest symptoms
 and fastens itself upon the constituto
 before the victim is aware It is nearly a
 hereditary consumption, quite as con
 mon and fully US fatal. Entire famile;
 inhoriting it from thoir ancestors, hay
 died, and yet none of the number knew o
 realized the mysterious power which was rG
 moving them. Instead of common symr
 toms it often shows none whatever, bu
 brings death suddenly, and as such is usual supposed to be heart disease. As one wh
 has suffered and knows by bitter experienc
 what he says, l impiurc every one who read
 these words not to neglect the Sli4htes