The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-20
A STRANGE "REMINISCENCES.
The Escape of Wen Known eN-Army
Surgeon from an Unforeseen
Danger,
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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 l venture to /
repro luce them entire:
In the month of September, 1879, ] was |
practicing medicine in New Orleans. The sum |
uer had been excessively hot and everybody !
was complainng o. being exhausted and fcel-
iug tired ID was not an unfteQuent occur !
renee TO have patients ASK for something to
relieve tits INCARCERATION, andthat should
also partake OF tue same universal lassitude
weakness, did not alarm me. l supposed
that oyer-work and exposure had produced i
temporary physical prostration; therefore l
made atrip TO s.. Paul, Mimi, thinking that
a rest OF few weeks In n cooler climate
would soon reinvigorate me. Little did |
dream, however, what was in store for lie.
After getting settled in my Lew gu rters
tooka short walk every day, and Patiently
AWAITED return of sirsn On, tbut ia spite of
al my Efforts / seemed to be losing Strength;
and even any slight exercise became la
borioush and tiresone DURING this time
l had frequent dull aching pains in
my head and through my back and
hips, occasional shooting pains in various parts
Of the DO with soreness, shortuess OF breath,
and palpitation of the heart. My feet and
hands would be like ice one day, and burn with
he cat the ut xt.-, had no, desire for food, and
WHAT i I'LL eat futblIesSeQrlnS, my siGep Dc-
came disturbed with the frequent desire to
urinate. The quantity of fluid passed would
at one time be small and at another quite
profuse. Then for days l would be per-
fectly free IRON this desire and nothing seemed
to be the matter; nevertheless my de ility
gradually increased. Ny eyelids were pulled
out; my bowels were aIternately torpid aud
too active, the urine would be clear some days,
ON others it would be of high color and deposit
a brick-dust sediment, and at st II Others tuere
M "a whItiSh a thin
greasy scum would 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 o place and consute the
best medical authorities the country affords;
4 l would have a chill one day and Burning
| fever tue next A suffered excruci ltingly with
! a nuInbness of my feeFand shands, aud ut the
| base of the brain and between my shoulders;
| at times my limbs and body would bioat and
| physi ans said Twas suffering from the dropsy
| and could not recover
How l could be so blind to the teri be
| trouble that was devouring me, | do not
| know; but there are thousands to-dty who
are suffering rom the same use and are as
! ignorapt of its nature as | was. My skin was
| theicol or of marble at one time, and then
ag ain it would be like saffron, and this terri
BILE restlessiess, and l might say wildness,
was followed by dull, heavy, droWsy scnsa-
| ton. ! was wasted to a mere skeleton eX-
tept when the dropsicl bloat occurred. l
| tried ali 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 Philadelph ia, where | was
| temporarily soiourning, given up to die by
| friends and physicians alike, when there
providentialy came into my hands little
pamphlet, which clrelully read, and from
which l got Il view of my real condi-
ton, which no other agency had revealed.
Acting on its advice, l had my water
Analysed at once, and to my surf rise, al
bumen and tube casts were found in
| IL f,,1 nh, al
sent for and apprised of the fact. He said
had Bright's Disease, and that death was
certain. My friends importuued me to take
a remedy which had won greatreputat on 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
1t and had to use small quantities; but att ter
the first five days my stomach retained fun
doses. This was one year ago last October,
and my improvement was rapid and perma-
nent. have regained 80 of the 60 pounds OF
flesh lost dur ng my illness, and | feel as
well tod y as ever did and can unreserved
ly state that my life was saved by Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy
used.
1t may seem strange that 1, being phys
clan and an eX-army surgeon, didnot have the
water analysed before; but such is the Ct
| had the sym toms of every other disease
and did not suspect that my k dneys were il
the least particular out of order; and here il
just where / was in the gre ttest danger, anC
where most people who read this article arr
in danger. / fiud that am only one of thou
sands who are suffering from kidney disor
ders, which, neg lected, surely terminate il
Brght's disease. | also know that physician:
may treat these disorders for months withou
knowing clearly what the trouble is, and ever
after as .ertaining the cause, be unable to pre-
vent it. When death, however, finally over
takes the helpless victim they dissu ise its rea
cause, attributng it to heart-disease, convul
sions, apoplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spina
meningitis, blood and uremic poisoning, etc.
etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my thank
to IL. II. Warner 81 Co., of Rochester, N. Y.
for giving the world such needed and Ger
tain specific as the Safe Kidney and Live
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 war
them to beware of the ilsidious nature of
disease over which physicians confess the
have no control and which, in one form o
! another, is carrying more people to untime
graves than any other malady.
j. NJ. PORTER, NJ. D.,
Baltimore, Nd, "a Saratoga Street.
WHEN Fogg saw a train on the dress Of al