The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-06
A STRANGE REMINIsuENcE.
THE ESCAPE OF A WELL KNOWN Ex-ARMY
SURGEON FROM AN UNFORESEEN
DANGER
Z baltimore American J

| licly in print, but the facts connected with
my experience which follow are so strik-
| ing. and bear SO closely upor the expert
| ence Of others, that l venture to reproduce
them entire:
In the month of September, 1879, was
practlcing medicine in New Orleans The
summer had been excessively hot aud
everybody was complaining of being
exhausted and feeling tired. It was not
| an unfrequent occurrence. to have patients
ask for something to relieve this weary SEN
sation, and that should also partake of
the same universal lassitude or weakness,
did not alarm me. / supposed that over
work and exposure had produced a tenn
porary physical prostration: therefore
made trip to st. Paul, Mimi, thinking
that rest of few weeks in a cooler eli
mate would soon reinvigorate me. Little
did dream, however, what was in store
for me. After getting settled in my new
quarters / took short walk every day,
and patiently awaited 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 had frequent dull ach
ing 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 palpitatlon of the
heart. My 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 dis
turbed with the frequent desire to urine.
The quantity of 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 matter; nevertheless my debility grad
uslly increased My eyeIids were pUffcd
out; my bowels were aIte rnatively 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 woul be white
ish 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 con-
suited the best medical authorities the
country affords; would have a chill one
day and a burning fever the next, Isuffered
excrdciatingly 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 be bloated and
physicians said 1 was suffering from the
dropsy and could not recover.
How L could be so blind TO the terrible
trouble that was deyouring 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. My
skin was the color ofmarhie. at one time, and
then again it would be like saffron, and
this terrible restlessness, and j might say
wildness, was followed by dull, heavy,
drowsy sensation. / was wasted to a
mere skeleton except when the drepsical
bloat occurred tried all the celebrated
e
all kinds of medicine and all kinds of
doctors, sill no help came lay at my
hotel in Philadelphia, where / was tenn
porarily sojourning, given up to die by
friends and physicians alike, when there
proyidentiauy came into my hands little
pamphlet, which carefully read and from
which got view of my real condition.
which no other agency had revealed.
Acting on its advice, / had my water ana
lyzed at once, aud to my surprise, albumen
and tube casts were found in large guam
titles. A skillful physician was sent for
and appraised of the fact. He said Ihad
Brights Disease, and that death was. Ger
tain. My friends importuned me to take
o remedy which had won 8 great reputa-
ton for the cure of all forms of kidney
diseases, and / therefore laid asid my pref
udices and commenced its. use. At first
my stomach rejected it and had to use
small quantities; but after the first five
days my stomach retaind full doses This
was one year ago last October, and my
was rapid and permanent.
had gained so of the 65 pounds of H. sh
/ lost during my illness and / feel as well,
to day as / ever did. and can unreserv-
eddy state that my life was saved by
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the
remedy used.
1t may seem strange that |, being a
physician and an exarmy surgeon, did
not have the water annalyZed before; but
such is the fact l had the symptoms of
every other disease, and I 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
most people who read this article are in
danger. I find that am one of thou
sands who are suffering from kidney dis
orders, which. neglected surely terminate
int Brights disease. / also know that
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 vic
sim they disguise its real canse. attributlng
il to heart disease, cohvulsiens, apoplexy,
vertigo, paralysis. spinal meningitis, blood
and uremic poisoning, ETC., etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my
thanks to IA. III. Warner & Co.. of Roches-
ter, N. Y, for giving the world such a
needed and certain specific as the Safe
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