The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-08
A STRANGE Renaissance.
The Escape of a Ex-Arny
Surgeon from an Unforeseen
Danger.


baltimore 1NeficaI.)
1 seldom appear publicly in print, but the
facts connected with my experience which fol
low are SO striking, and bear SO closely upon the
experience of others, chat venture to repro
duce them entire:
In the month of September, 1879, 1 was prac-
ticing medicine in New Orleans. The summer
nau Deen excessively not, and everybody was
complaining of being exhausted aud 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 oyerwork and
exposure had produced a temporary physical
prOstration; therefore, 7 made a trip to ST. Paul,
Mimi, thinking that a rest of "A lew weeks in a
cooler climate would soon reinvlgOra5e me.
Little did Idrean, 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 [ had frequent
dull aching pains In my head. and through my
back and hips, occasional shooting pains in
various parts of tine body, with soreness, short
ness Of breath, and palpitatlOn 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 frequent desire
TO nrinate. The quantity of fluid passed would
at one time be small and at another quite pro-
fuse. Then for days | would be perfectly free
from this desire and nothing seemed to be the
matter; ne vertheless my debility gradually in
creased. My eyelids were puffed out; my bowels
were alternately torpid and too active, the urine
would he clear some days, on Others it would be
of high color and deposit q brlckdust sediment,
ana at still others there would be a whitish ap-
pearance aud II thin greasy scum would rise to
the top. The pains III 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 affords; | would have a chill one day
and a burning fever the next. 1 suffered excru-
cIatingly with a nuInbness of my feet and hands,
and at the haze of 1he brain and between nv
shoulders; at times my limbs and body would
bloat, and physicians said l was suffering from
the dropsy and could not recover.
How Icould be so blind to the terrible trouble
that was devouring me, l do not know; but there
are thousands to day who are suffering from the
same cause and are as ignor.ut of its nature as
[ was. My skin was the color of marble at one
time, aud then again il would be like saffron, and
this terrible restlessness, and, | might say, Wild
ness, was followed by a dull, heavy, drowsy SEN
satiOn. | 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 medicines and all kinds
of doctors. still no help came. lay at my hotel
in Philadelphia, where l was temporarily So
journing, given up to die by friends and physi-
clans alike, when there prOvidentially came into
my hands a little pamphlet which 1 carefully
read. and from which L got a view of my real
condition, which no other agency had revealed.
Acting on its advice, | had my water analysed
ut once, and, to my SURPRISE, aibumen and tube
casts were found In large quantities. A skillful
physician was sent for and appr1sed of the fact.
He said l had Brights Disease, and that death
was CeFGdlu. MY IFlenuS lHlpOTJlucu he 10 Jake
a remedy which mad won a great reputation for
the cure of all forms of kidney diseases,
and 1 therefore laid aside my preiu-
dice and commenced its use. At first my
stomach rejected 1t, and l had to use small guam
titles; 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 fifty of the sixty
five pounds OF flesh L lost during my illness, and
| feel as well to-day as | ever did, and | can un-
reservedly state that my life was saved by War
ner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy l
used.
It may seem strange that 7, 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 1 did not
suspect that my kidneys were in the least par
ticular out of ORDER; and here Is just where | was
in the greatest danger, and where most people
who read this article are IN danger. find that
| am only one OF thousands who are suffering
from kidney disorders, which, neglected surely
terminate in BrighJ'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 over
takes the helpless victims they disguise its real
cause, attributing IL to heart disease, convul-
sions, apOplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinel men
ningetis, blood and urenlc poisoning, etc, etc.
Words, of course, fail u express my thanks to
III. FL. Warner Il Co., OF Rochester, Y. Y, for Civ
ing the world such a needed and certain specific
as the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, but such as
they arc | gladly give them; while to the thou
sands to whom 1 have lectured upon the laws of
health and hygiene [ mme this letter most
cordially, and warn them to beware of the insid-
ious nature of a disease over which physicians
confess they have no control, and which, in one
form or another, is carrying more people to I'M
timely graves than any other malady.
j. NJ. PORTER, NJ. D.
BALTIMORE, Md, 81 Saratoga street.