Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-08-04
NO HOME EXEMPT
The Source of Those Mysterious Troubles thai
Come to Every Household
Explained.

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striking nature and emanates from so reli-
able a source, that it is herewith re-published
entire. In addition to the valuable matter it
contains it will be found exceedingly inter
esting:
II tie Editor of the Democrat and Chroni-
Gle:
Shiny motives for the publication of the
most unusual statements which follow, are
first gratitude for the fact that | have been
saved from most horrible death, and, second
ly, a desire to warn all who read this state
ment against some of the most deceptive i'll
tuences by which they have ever been sur
rounded. 1t is a tact that to-day thous-
ands of people are within foot of the
grave and they do not know it. To tell
how ! was caught away from just this position
and to warn others against nearing 1T, are my
objects in this communication.
On the first day of June, 1881, | lay at my
residence in this city surrounded by my friends
and waiting for death. Heaven only knows
tho agony L then endured, for words can never
describe it. And yet, if few years previous,
any one had told ME that | was to be brought
so low, and by so terrible disease, | should
have scofed at the idea. / had always been
uncommonly strong and healthy had weighed
over 200 pounds and hardly knew, i'll my own
experience, what pain or sickness were. Very
many people who will read this statement real
ize 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 and
do not understand it. Or they are exceedingly
hungry one day and entirely without appetite
the next. This was just the way l felt when
the relentless malady which had fastened itself
upon me first began. Still l thought 1T was
nothing that probably | had taken cold
which would soon pass away. Shortly after
this | noticed q heavy, and at times a neural
gic. pain in my head but az it would come one
day and be gone the next, paid but little at
tention to it. However, my stomach was out
of order and my food often failed to digest,
causing at times great Inconvenience Yet
had no idea, even a. q physician, that these
things meant anything serious or that a mons
| trous disease was becoming fixed upon me-
| Candidly thought was suffering from Ma
| aria and doctored myself accordingly. But
| | got no better. lnext noticed q peculiar color
and odor about the fluids | was passing-also
| that there were large quantities one day and
very little the next, and that Il persistent froth
and scum appeared upon the surface, and a
sediment settled in the bottom. And yet |
| did not realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing
these symptoms continually, l finally became
accustomed to them, and my suspicion vas
wholly disadIned by the fact that | had no
pain in the affected organs or in their vicinity.
| Why should have been no blind | cannot
understand.
| There is terrible future for all physical
neglect, and impending danger always brings
a person to his senses, even though it may then
| be too late / realized, at last, my critical con-
dition and aroused myself to overcome it,
| And, Oh. how hard | tried! | consulted the
| best medical skill in the land. l visited all
the prominent mineral SPRINGS in America and
| travelled from Maine to California. Still
| grew worse n, two physicians agreed as to
my malady One said | was troubled with
spinal irritation; another, nervous prostraton;
another, malaria; another, dyspepsia; another,
/ thAr txT.
another, congestion of the base OF the
brain; and so on through n long list of com
mon diseases, the symptoms of all OF which |
| really had. In this way several years passed,
during all of which time was steadily grow
ing worse. My condition had really become pitt
able. The slight symptoms at first experien-
ced were developed into terrible and constant
disorders little twigs of pain had grown
to oaks of agony. My weight hadbeen reduced
from POT to 100 pounds. My life was torture
| t. myself and friends. / could retain no food
upon my stomach, and lived wholly by in
jections. | was living mass of pain. My
pulse was uncomfortable In my agony /
frequently fell upon the floor, convulsively
clutched the carpet, and prayed for death.
Morphine had little or no effect IN deadening
the pain For six days and nights had the
death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly My
urine was filled with tube casts and albumen.
was struggling with Brights Disease of the
kidneys in its last stages.
While suffering thus | received n call from
my pastor, the Rev. DIR. Foot, rector of st.
Pau's church. of this city. felt that it was
our last interview, but III the course OF con-
versation he mentioned q remedy of which ]
had heard much but had never used. DIR. Foot
detailed to mo the many remarkable cures
which had come under his observation, 10y
means of this remedy, and urged me to try it.
As practicing physician and a graduate oil
the schools, / cherished the prejudice both
natural and common with all regular praction
, ors, and derided the idea of ony medicine out
side the regular channels being the least bene
fetal SO solicitious, however, was DIR. Foot
that finally promised that l would waive my
prejudice and try the remedy he so highly re
commended. began its use on the LIST day o.
June and took it according to directions. A
first it sickened me I; but this thought was
good sign for me in my debiitated condition
continued to take it ; the siokening sensation
departed and was able to retain food upeoi
any stomach. In few days / noticed de
cided change for the better as also did my wife
and friends. My hiccoughs ceased and ex
perienced less pain than formerly. | was $,
! rejoiced at this improved condition that upor
what had believed but a few days before wa
my dying bed, l vowed, in the presence of m,
family and friends should l recover i woulo
both publicly and privately make known this
, remedy for the good II humanity, wherever
and whenever had an opportunity: l alst
determined that would give acourse of lectures
in the Corinthian Academy of Music i'll thi
city, stating in full the symptoms and al
most hopelessness of my disease and the re
markable means by which have been saved
NV improvement was constant from that time
and in less than three months | had gained q
pounds in flesh, became entirely free from
pain and believe | owe my life and present
condition wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, TIL,
remedy which used.
Since my recovery have thoroughly rein
vestigated the subject of kidney diticultie,
and Bright's disc Sc, and the truths developed
are astounding. ! therefore state, deliberate
ly, and az a physician, that l believe NOR,
than onehalf the deaths which occur in Amer
lea are caused by Brght's disease of the kid
. neys. This may sound like rash stateme mt
but am prepared tofully verify it. Brights dis
J ease has nodistnctive symptoms OF its own, lin
deed, it often developes without any pain what
ever in the kidneys or hervcinity), but has the
symptoms of nearly every other known com
plant. Hundreds of people die daily, whose
burials authorized by physician = certificate Of
Heart Disease, "Appoplexy," Paralysis,
"Spinal Complaint" Rheumatism" Pheu
monia;" and other common diseases, when IN
J reality it was Bright's Disease of the kidneys
Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the
extent of this disease or its dangerous and in
sidious nature. 1t steals into the system like
thief, manifests its presence by the common
est symptoms, and fastens itself upon the con
stitution before the victim is aware. 1t is
nearly as hereditary consumption, quite at
common and fully as fatal. Entire families
inheriting from their ance tors, have died, and
vet none of the number knew or realized the
mysterious power which was removing them
Instead of common symptoms 1T often shows