Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-01-18
A STRANGE RENIINISCENCE.
The Escape of a Well Known ex-Arny
Surgeon from an Unforeseen
Danger.
Baltimore Amertcan.)


lfesSrS. Editors:
1 seldom appear publicly in print, but the
facts connected with NY experience which
follow are so striking, and bear so closely up
on the experience of others, that venture to
repro luce them entire:
In the month of September, 1879, I was
practicing medicine in New Orleans The sum
ner had been excessively hot and everybody
was complaining OF being exhausted and feel
ing tired. 1t was not an uufrequent occur
renee to have patients ask for something to
relieve this weary sensation, and that should
also part2ke OF the same universal lassitud2
or weakness, did not alarm me. I supposed
that oyer-WOrk and exposure had produced
temporary physical prostI alton; therefore /
made trip to st. Paul. Mimi, thinking that
rest of a few weeks in a cooler climate
would soon reinvigOrate me. Little did l
dream, however, what was in store fer ne
After getting settled in my new gu ,rters l
took a short walk every day, and patiently
ted return of strength, but in spite of
all my efforts l seemed to be losing strength;
and even any slight exercise became la
borious and tiresome- During this time
l had frequent dull aching pains i'll
my head, and through my back and
hips, occasional shooting pains in various parts
of the bO ~, with soreness, shOrtuess 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
at one time be small and at another quite
profuse. Then for days l 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 hig b color and deposit
a briCk-duSt sediment, and at ST. Ii others t.ere
would be a whitish appearance ard thin
greasy scum Woul1 rise to the top The pains
in my head, back, chest. joints, bowels nd
bones were horrible in the extreme. went
In vain from place to place and cOnsute the
best medical authorities the country affords;
I would have chill one day and a burning
fever the next. [ suffered excruci itingly with
a numbness of my feet and hands, and at the
base of the brain and between my shoulders;
at times my limbs and body would bioat and
physicians said was suffering from the dropsy
and could not recover.
How l could be SO blind to the terrible
trouble that was devouring me, l do not
know; but there are thousands today who
are suffering from the same use and are as
ignorant of its nature as I was. Ny 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. was wasted to mere skeleton eX-
Ce3t when the dropsic' Il bloat occurred. 1
tried all the celebrated mineral waters of this
country and Europe; all kinds of medicine
and all kinds OF doctors Still no help came.
lay at my hotel in Philadelphia, where was
temporarily sojOurning, given up to die by
friends and physicians alike. when there
proVidentially came into my hands little
pamphlet, which | Tefully read, and from
which I got a view of my real con1i-
ton, which other agency had revealed.
Acting on its advice, l had my water
analysed at once, and to my surf rise. a.
humen and tube casts were found in
large quantities. A skillful physician was
sent for and apprised of the fact. He said
had Bright's Disease, and that death was
certain. My friends importuued me to take
q a W. a q rpT a
the cure of all forms of kidney diseases, and l
therefore laid aside my prejudice and COM
nenced its use. At first my stomach rejected
1t and 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 was rapid and perma-
nent. have regained so of the Is pounds of
flesh lost dur, ng my illness, and feel as
well tod y as ever did, and can uureserVed-
~ state that my life was saved by Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy I
used.
1t may seem strange that 1, being physi-
clan and an ex-army surgeon, did not have the
water analysed before; but such is the f.ct.
had the SYM toms of every other disease,
and did n5t suspect 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 iii d that am only one or thou-
sands who are suffering from kidney disor-
ders, which, neglected, surely terminate IN
Bright's disease. L also know that pbys1 clans
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 d1Sg use It's real
cause, attributing it to heart-dise1se, convul-
sions, apopIexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinal
meningitis, blood and uremic poisoning, ETC.,
etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my thanks
to II. Fl. Warner q Co., of Rochester, n. Y,
for giving the world such needed and GER
tain specific as the Safe 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 I
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 or
another, is carrying more people to untimely
graves than any other malady.
j. NJ. PORTER, NJ D.,
Baltimore, Nd, 81 Saratoga Street.
Is 1T proper to ask q man how he is get
ting on, when he has lust sworn off!-BOStOI