The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-01-27
A STRANGE "REMINISCENCES.
The Escape of Well Known ex-Srmy
Surgeon from an Unforeseen
Danger. ..H M
fBoltimore Americanl

(Boltimore ABicricdaJ
NeSSrs Editors:
seldom appear publicly in print, but the
facts connected with my experience which
follow are so striking, and bear 80 closely up
on the experience of others, that venture to
repl o luce them entire:
In the month Of September, 1879, Iswas
prscticine medicine in New Orleans. The sum-
ncr had been excessively hot and everybody
WIS complaining OF being exhausted and feel
ing tired II was not an uufrequent occur.
renee tohave patients ask for something 10
relieve this weary sensation, and that snouid
also partalle of the same universal lassltude
or weakness, did not alarm me. supposed
that oyer-work and exposure had produced q
temporary physical prostl alton; therefore
made trip to St. Paul, Mimi, thinking that
a rest of q few weeks in a cooler cllInate
would soon TeinYigorate me. Llttle ulu L
dream, however, what was in store Tor ne;
After getting settled in my new gu lrters
took a short walk every day, and patiently
ava ted return Of strAngth, but in spite OF
all'my efforts | seemed to be losing strength;
and even any slight exercise became la
borous and tiresome. During TINS time
j had frequent dull aching pains III
my head, and through my back and
hips, occasional shooting pains in various parts
of the DO ly, with soreness, shOrtuess of breath,
and palpiJatiOn of the heart My feet and
hands would be like ice one day, and burn with
heat the next. id no desire Tor food, and
what | did eat distressed me; my sleep be-
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 / would be per-
fectly free iron this desire and nothing seemed
to be the matter; nevertheless my debility
gradually 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 hi2hcolor and deposit
a bril k-dust sediment, and at still others there
would be whtish appearance and 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 TO place and consulted the
best medical authorities the country affords /;
would have chill one day aud burning
fever the next / suffered eXcruciatingly with
a numbness of my feet and hands, and at the
base of tie brain and between my shoulders !;
at times my limbs and body would bloat and
physi,ians sa d Twas suffering from the dropsy
and could not recover. av rs D. 3
How | could be so blind to the terrible
trouble that was deVouring me, ! do not
know; but there are thousands today who
are suffering rom the same use and are as
ignorant of its nature as Twas My skin was
he color of marble at one time, and then
lg in it would be like saffron, and this terri
0le reslessness, and | m ght say wildness,
WdS lOllONfN ny Il uuii, DcaNN, uTOWSN betlsa-
ton. was wasted to mere skeleton eX-
ept when the dropsic ] bIoat occurred.
Cried all 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 PhiladelT hia, where / was
temporarily sojourning, given up to die by
friends and physicians alike, when there
rovIdentialiy came into my hands a little
pamphlet, which | re.uly read, and from
which | got view Of my real condi-
tion, which no other agency had revealed.
Acting on its advice, | had my water
analysed at once, and to my surf rise, al
bumen and tube casts were found in
arge quantities. A skillful physician was
sent for and apprised Of the fact. He said l
lad Bright'S Disease, and that death was
certain. My friends importuned me to take
remedy which had won great reputat on for
the cure of all forms of kidney diseases, and l
therefore, laid aside my prejudice and COM
nenced its use. At first my stomach rejected
it 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 perma-
nent. have regained so of the Is Fou IDS OF
flesh 1 lost dur ng my illness, and ! feel as
well tod y as ever did, and can unreserved-
~ state that my life was saved by Warmers
safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy |
used
II may seem strange that |, being physi-
cldn anu an eX-aTUiy SufSSOi, ulu NOV HdlG Tue
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 in
the least particular ont. of order; and here is
Just where 1 was in the gre test danger and
where most people who read this article are
n danger. l find that am only one of thou
sands who are suffering from kidney disor-
ders, 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, andeyen
after as 2ertaining the cause, be unable to pre-
vent it. When death, however, finally over
takes the helpless victim they disguise its real
cause, attributing it to heart-disease, convul-
sions, apoplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinal
meningitis, blood and uremic poisoning, ETC.,
etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my thanks
to II. II. Warner 4 Co., of Rochester, n. Y,
for giving the world such a needed and GER
tain specific as the Sale Kidney and Liver
Cure, but such as they are / gladly give them
While 10 the thousands to whom have lect-
ured upon the laws Of health and hygiene
commend this letter most cordially, and warn
them to beware of the insidious nature of q
disease over which physicians confess they
have no control and which, in one form or
another is carrying more people to untmely
graves than any other malady.
J. NJ. PORTER, NJ d.,
Baltimore, Nd, "a Saratoga Street.
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