Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-06
A STRANGE "REMINISCENCES,
Tho Escape of a Wen-Known ex-Army
Surgeon from an Unforeseen Danger.
baltimore American.

Messrs. Editors:
1 seldom appear publicly in print, but
the facts connected with my experience
which follow are so striking, and bear so
closely upon the experience of others, that
l venture to reproduce them entire.
In the month of September, 1879, was
practicing medicine in New Orleans. The
summer had been excessively hot and
everybody was complaining of being ex-
hausted and feeling tired. 1t was not an
unfreouent occurrence to have patients
ask for something to relieve this weary
sensation, and that 1 should also partake
of the same universal lassitude or weak
ness. did not alarm me. l supposed that
over-work and exposure had produced
temporary physical prostration, therefore
1 made a trip to st. Paul, Mimi, thinking
that a rest of a few weeks IN cooler
climate would soon reinvigorate me.
Little did l dream, however, what was
in store for me. After getting settled in
my new quarters took a short walk every
day, and patiently awaited a return of
strength, but in spite of all my efforts
seemed to be losing strength; and even
any slight exercise became laborious and
tiresome. During this time I had fire.
Quent dull aching pains in 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, and
burn with heat the next. l had no desire
for food, and what did eat distressed me;
my sleep became disturbed with the fire.
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fluid passed would at one time be small
and at another quite profuse. Then Tor
days would be perfectly free from this
desire and nothing seemed to be the mat
ter; nevertheless my debility gradual
ly 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
high color and deposit brick-dust sedl-
ment, and at still others there would be
whitish appearance and thin greasy scum
would rise to the top. The pains IN my
head, back, chest, joints, bowels and bones
were horrible in the extreme. went IN
vain from place to place and consulted the
best medical authorities the country at
fords; would have chill one day and
burning fever the next. 1 suffered excru-
ciatingly with nUmbness 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
l was suffering from the dropsy and could
not recover.
How could BIZ so blind to the terrible
trouble that was devouring me. do not
know; but there are thousands to-day who
are suffering from the same cause and are
as ignorant of its nature as 1 was. My
skin was the color of marble at one time,
and then again it would be like saffron,
and this terrible restlessness, and might
say wildness, was followed by a dull,
heavy, drowsy sensation. l was wasted to
a mere skeleton except when the dropsical
bloat occurred. tried all the celebrated
mineral waters of this country and
Europe; all kinds of medicine and all
kinds of doctors. Still no help came. l
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 a
little pamphlet which I carefully read,
and from which 1 got a
view of my real condition, which
no other agency had revealed. Act
ing on its advice, 1 had my water analysed
at once, and, to my surprise, albumen and
tube casts we're found in large quantities.
A skillful physician was sent for and ap-
prised of the fact. He said I had Bright's
disease, and that death was certain. Ny
friends importuned me to take remedy
which had won a great reputation for the
cure of all forms of kidney diseases, and l
therefore laid aside my prejudice and
commenced its use. At first my stomach
rejected it and l had to use small quaint
ties: but after the first five days my stom-
ach retained full doses. This was one year
ago last October. and my improvement
was rapid and permanent. have regalned
fifty of the sixty five pounds of flesh lost
during my illness, and feel as well to-day
as 7 ever did, and l can unreserVedly state
that my life was saved by Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy l used
1t may seem strange that l, being ply
stefan and an ex-army surgeon, did not
have the water analysed before; but such
is the fact. 1 had the symptoms of every
other disease, and did not suspect that
nv kidneys were in the least particular
out of order; and here is just where L was
in the greatest danger, and where most
people who read this are in danger. fiIC
that am only one of thousands who are
suffering from kidney disorders, which
neglected, surely terminate in Bright's
disease. 1 also know that physicians may
treat these disorders for months, without
knowing exactly what the trouble is, and
even after ascertaining the cause, be IN
able to prevent it. When death, however
finally overtakes the helpless victim they
disguise its real cause, attributing it to
heart disease, convulsions, apoplexy, YER
tigo, paralysis, spinal meningitis, blood
and uremic poisoning, ETC., etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my
thanks to II. II. Warner s. Co., of Roches-
ter, N. Y, for giving the world such {
needed and certain specific as the Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure, but such as they
are 1 gladly give them; while to the
thousands to whom I have lectured upo1
the laws of health and hygiene commend
this letter most cordially, and warn then
to beware of the insidious nature of {
disease over which physicians confess they
have no control and which in one form OF
another, is carrying more people to un
timely graves than any other malady.
j. NJ. PORTER, NJ. D.
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