The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-25
A STRANGE "REMINISCENCES.
The Escape of a Well known ex-Army
Surgeon from an Unforeseen
Danger.
fRnlfimnre Amerfcnn.l

baltimore AHaericdn)
Messrs. Editors:
seldom appear publicly in print, but the
facts connected with my experience which
follow are so striking, and bear SO closely up
on the experience of others, that venture to
reproduce them entire;
In the month of September, 1879, was
practicing medicine in New Orleans. The sum
mer had been excessively hot and every Dody
was complaining OF being exhausted and feel-
ing tired 1t was not an unfreQuent occur
renee to have patients ask for something 20
relieve this weary sensation, and that mould
also partake of the same universal Iassltude
or weakness, did not alarm me. l suppos ed
that oyer-work and exposure had produced
temporary physical proStrat1on; therefore 1
made a trip to st. Paul, Mimi, thinking that
a rest of few weeks in a cooler climate
would soon reinvigOrate me- Little did L
dream, however, what was in store for ne.
After getting settled in my new quarters L
took short walk every day, and patiently
awaited a return of strength, but in spite of
all my efforts | seemed to be losing strengths
and even any slight eXereAR became la
bOrious and tiresOme During this time
my head, and through my back and
hips, occasional shooting pains in various parts
of the body, with soreness, shortness OF breath,
and palpitatiOn of the heart. My feet and
hands would be like ice one day, aud burn with
heat the next. l had no desire for food, and
what / did eat distressed me; my sleep be-
came disturbed with the frequent desire to
urinate. The quantity of hu1d passed would
at one time be small and at another quite
profuse. Then for days I would be per-
fectly free from this desire and nothing seemed
to be the matter; nevertheless my debility
gradually increased. My eyelids were pulled
out; my bowels were alternately torpid and
too active, the urine would be clear some days,
on others it would be of higheolor and deposit
a briCk-dust sediment and at still others there
would be a whitish appearance and thin
greasy scum would rise to the top The pains
in my head, back, chest, joints, bowels md
bones were horrible in the extreme. l went
in vain from place to place and consulted the
best medical authorities the country affords;
/ would have a chill one day and a burning
fever the next. / suffered excruciatingly with
a NUM- ness of my feet and hands, and at the
base of the brain and between my shoulders;
at times my limbs and body would blOat and
physicians said was suffering from the dropsy
and could not recover.
How / could be so blind to the terrible
trouble that was devOuring me, do not
know; but there are thousands to-day who
suffering from the same cAuse and are as
ignorant of its nature as l was. My skin was
the color of marble at one time, and then
again it would be like saffron, and this terri
Bile restlessness, and / might say wildness,
was followed by dull, heavy, drowsy sensa-
ton. l was wasted to a mere skeleton eX-
Cept when the drOpsicll blOat occurred. /
tried all the celebrated mineral waters Of this
country and Europe; ali kinds of medicine
and all kinds Of doctors. Still no help came
temporarily sojOurning, given up to die by
friends and physicians alike, when there
prOVidentiallY came into my hands little
pamphlet, which l c7refully read, and from
which | got a view of my real condt-
tion, which no other agency had revealed.
Acting on its advice, had my water
Analysed at once, and to my surprise, al
bumen and tube casts were found in
large quantities. A skillful physician was
sent for ana appraised of the fact. He said l
had Bright's Disease, and that death was
certain. My. friends importuned me to take
a remedy which had won great reputation for
the cure of all forms of kidney diseases and
therefore laid aside my prejudice and COM
menced its use. At first my stomach rejected
it and l had to use small quantities but after
the first five days my stomach retained full
doses. This was one year ago last October,
and my improvement rapid and perma-
nent. have regained so of the 65 pounds Of
flesh lost during my illness, and l feel as
well to-dsy as I ever did, and can unreserved-
~ state that my life saved by Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy l.
used.
1t NAV seem strange that l. being a physi-
clan and an ex-army surgeon, did not have the
water analyzed be fore; but such is the fact.
l had the sym. toms of every other disease,
and did not spect that my .dneys were in
the least particular out of order; and here is
just where [ was in the greatest danger, and
where most people who read this article are
. IN danger. l 4iu d that ] am only one of thou
sands who are suffering from kidney dtsor-
ders, which, negie cted, surely terminate in
Bright's disease. l also know that physicians
may treat these disorders for months without
knowing clearly what the trouble is, and even
after ascertaining the cause, be unable to pre-
vent it. When death, however, finally over
takes the helpless victim they disguise its real
cause, attrihuting 1t to heart-disease, cOnVul-
stons, apoplcxy, vertigo, paralysis, spina
meningetis blood and uremic poisoning, etc.
| etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my thanks
to II. II. Warner & Co., Of Rochester, N. Y.
| for giving the world such a needed and GER
| tain specific the Sale Kidney and Liver
| Cure, but such as they are | gladly give them
| while to the thousands to whom have lect-
ured upon the laws of health and hygiene
| commend this letter most cordially, and warn
them to beware of the insidious nature of a
disease over which physicians confess they
| have no control and which, in one form OF
another, is carrying more people to untimely
graves than any other malady.
J. NJ. PORTER, M. D.,
Baltimore, Md, "a Saratoga Street