St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-21
RECONSTRUCTED.
A Remarkable Statement Fully Con-
@ frned by Three Important
Interviews,


IN. V, Democrat and Chronicle was pub
lished in this paper recently and has been
the subject of much conversation both in
professional circles and on the street.
Apparently it caused more commotion in
Rochester, as the following from the same
paper shows:
DR.. J. B. Henfon. who is well known not
only in Rochester, but in nearly every part
of America, sent an extended article to
this paper, few days since, which was
duly published, detailing his remarkable
experience and rescue from what seemed
to be certain death. 1t would be impos-
sible to enumerate the personal enquiries
which have been made at our Office as to
the validity Of the article, but they have
been so numerous that further investiga-
ton of the subjectwas deemed an editorial
necessity.
With this end in view representative of
this paper called on DIR. Henion at his
residence, when the following interview
occurred:
ssThat article of yours, doctor, has
created quite whirlwind. Are the state
ments about the terrible condition you
were in, and the way You were rescued,
such as you can sustain1'
'sEvery one of them and many additional
ones. Few people ever get so near the
grave as did and then return, and [ am
not surprised that the public think it mar
velous. 1t was marvellous"
'How in the world did you, a physician,
come to be brought SO low?'
SPY neglecting the first and nlostsimple
symptoms. / did not think / was sick. It
is true had frequent headaches: felt tired
most of the time; could eat nothing one
day and was ravenous the next; felt dull,
indefinite pains, and my stomach was out
of order, but did not think it meant any
thing serious.o
'But have these common ailments any,
thing to do with the fearful Bright's
disease which took SO firm a hold on
you:"
Anything? Why, they are the sure in
dications of the first stages of that dread
full malady. The fact is, few people know
or realize what ais them, and am sorry
to say that too few physicians do either"
sThat is strange statement, doctor"
"But it is a true one. The medical pro-
fession have been treating symptoms in
stead of diseases for years, and it is high
time it ceased. We doctors have been
clipping off the twigs when we should
strike at the root. The symptoms I have
just mentioned or any unusual action or
irritation of the water channels indicate
the approach of Brights disease even more
than cough announces the coming of
consumption. We do not treat the cough,
but try to help the lungs. We should not
waste our time trying to relieve the head
ache, stomach, pains about the body or
other symptoms, but go directly to the kid
neys, the source of most of these ailments"
s'This. then, is what you meant when
you said more than one-half the deaths
which occur arise from Bright's disease, is
il, doctorp
ssPrecisely. Thousands of so-called dis
eases are torturing people to-day, when in
reality it is Bright's disease in some one Of
&c ,-,,Y far Sc a Iro. hoo 3ad
monster and the slightest symptoms should
strike terror to every one who has them. /
can look back and recall hundreds Of
deaths which physicians declared at the
time were caused by paralysis, apoplexy,
heart-disease, pneumonia, malarial fever
and other common complaints which see
now were caused by Bright's disease"
g And did all these cases have simple
symptoms at firstm
Every one of them, and might have
been cured as was by the timely use of
the same remedy-Warner' Safe Cure.
am getting my eyes thoroughly open in
this matter and think am helping others
to see the facts and their possible danger
also. Why, there are no end OF truths
bearing % this subject. If you want to
know more about it go and see Mr.. Warner
himself. He was sick the same as l, and
is the healthiest man in Rochester to-day
He has made study of this subject and
can give you more facts than / can. Go,
too, and see DR.. baltimore, the chemist, at
the University. If you want facts there
are any quantity of them showing the
alarming increase of Bright's disease, its
simple and deceptive symptoms, and there
is but one way by which itcan be escaped
Fully satisfied of the truth and force of
the Doctors words, the reporter babe him
good day and called on Mr.. Warner at his
establishment on Exchange street. At first
IN hQ
but learning that the information desired
was about the alarming increase of Bright's
disease, his manner changed instantly and
he spoke very earnestly:
Wit is true that Brightss disease has In
creased wonderfully, and we find, by relia.
BILE statistics, that in the past ten years its
growth has been $50 per cent. Look at the
prominent Iaen it has carried off: Everett,
Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Carpenter, Bishops
Haven and Peck, and others. This Is ter
rlble. and shows a greater growth than
that of any other known complaint. 1t
should be plain to every one that some
thing must be done to check this increase {;
OF there is no knowing where it may end. =
| Do you think many people are afflicted
with it to-day who do not realize 1t, Mr..
Warner?v
s. Hundreds of thousands. ] have strik-
ing example of this truth which has just
come to my notice. A prominent professor
in a New Orleans medical college was lect.
uring before his class on the subject OF
Bright's disease. He had various fluids
under microscopic analysis, and was show.
ing the students what the indications of
this terrible malady were. In order to
show the contrast between healthy and
unhealthy fluids, he had provided vial,
the contents of which were drawn from
his own person. And now, gentlemen
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