Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-08

The Escape of a weIIgE<nown ex-Army
%Surgeon from an Unforeseen Danger.
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The Escape of a welIeF~nown ex-Army
SSurgeon from an Unforeseen Danger.
Baltimore american.
Hessrs. Editors: / seldom appear pub
hcly in print, but the facts connected
with my experience which follow are so
striking. and bear so closely upon the ex-
perience of others, that venture to repro
duce 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
unfrequent occurrence to have patients
ask for something to relieve this weary
sensation, and that should also partake OF
the same universal lassitude or weakness,
did not alarm me. / supposed that over
work and exposure had produced tenn
p0rary physical prostratlon; therefore
made a trip to st. Paul, Mimi, thinking
that rest of a few weeks in cooler eli
mate would soon reinyigorate me. Lit
tie did / 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 laborlous and tire
some. During this time | had frequent
my back and hips, occasional shooting
pains in various parts of the body, with
soreness. shortness of breath and palpita-
ton of the heart. Ny feet and hands would
be like ice one day and burn with heat the
next. / had no desire for food, and what
| did eat distressed me; my sleep became
disturbed with the frequent desire to url-
nate. The quantity of fluid passed would
at one time be small and at another quite
prOfuse. Then for days | 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 alternate
ly torpid and too active, the urine would
be clear some days, on others it would be
of high color and deposit brick-dust
sediment, 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. 1
went in vain from place to place and con-
suited the best medical authorities the
country affords; | would have a chill one
day and a burning fever the next. l suf-
fered eXcrutiatingly 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 ply
sicians 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 are suffering from the same cause
and are as ignorant of its nature as was.
Ny skin was the color of marble at one
time, and then again it would be like SAT-
from, and this terrible restlessness, and
might say wildness, was followed by a
dull, heavy, drowsy sensation. | was
wasted to mere skeleton except when
tho dP0nCipnl hln0f occurred | triad all
the celebrated mineral waters of this
country and Europe; all kinds of medi-
cine and all kinds of doctors. Still no
help came. | lay at my hotel in Philadel-
phia, where / was temporarily sojourn-
ing, given up to die by friends and physi-
clans alike, when there providentially
came into my hands little pamphlet,
which / carefully read, and from which
| got view of my real con-
dition, which no other agency had re-
Yealed. Acting on its advice, / had my
water analysed at once, and to my sur
prise, albumen and tube casts were found |
in large quantities. A skillful physician |
was sent for and appraised of the fact. He |
said | had Bright's Disease, and that |
death was certain. My friends importuned |
me to take a remedy which had won a |
great reputation for the cure of all forms |
of kidney diseases, and | therefore laid |
aside my prejudice and commenced 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 permanent. Ihave regained 90 of the |
65 pounds of flesh / lost during my illness,
and / feel as well to-day as | ever did, and |
/ can unreseryedly state that my life was
saved by Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver |
Cure, the remedy used,
1t may seem strange that |, being a
physician and an eX-army surgeon, did /
not have the water analysed before; but |
such is the fact. | had the symptoms of |
every other disease, and did not suspect |
that my kidneys were in the least partic- |
ular out of order; and here is just where |
/ was in the greatest danger, and where I
most people who read this article in |
danger. | find that am only one of thou
sands who are suffering from kidney dis
orders, which, neglected, surely terminate
in Bright's disease. / 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 prevent it. When
death, however, finally overtakes the help
less victim they disguise its real cause,
attributing it to heart disease, cOnYul-
sions, apoplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinal /
meningitis, blood and uremic poisoning, |
etc., etc,
Words, of course, fail to express my
thanks to III. III. Warner & Co., of Roches-
ter, n. T., for giving the world such
needed and certain specific as the Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure, but such as they
are gladly give them; while 10 the thou
sands to whom have lectured upon the
laws Of health and hygiene l commend
this latter most cordially, and warn them
to beware of the insidiOus nature of dis
ease over which physicians confess they
have no control, and which in one form or
another, is carrying more people to un-
timely graves than any other malady.
j. NJ, PORTER, NJ. D.,
Baltimore, Md, "a Saratoga street.