The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-01-12
A Strange Renaissance.
THE ESCAPE OF WELL KNOWN ExARMy
SURGEON FROM AN UNroRE-
SEEN DANGER.
Messrs. Editors:


seldom appear publicly in print,
but the facts connected with my expe-
rience which follows are 80 striking,
and bear so closely upon the experience
of others, that venture to reproduce
them entire
In the month of September, 1870, 1
was practicing medicine in New
Orleans. The summer had been ex-
cessively hot and everybody was com
planning of being exhausted and feeling
tired. II was not an unfrequent occur
renee to have patients ask for some
thing 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 q
temporary physical prostration there
fore | made trip to st. Paul, Mimi,
thinking that rest of few weeks in a
cooler climate would soon reinvigorate
me. Little did dream, however, what
was in store for me. After getting set
tied in my new quarters l took short
walk every day, and patiently awaited
a return of strength, but in spite of all
my efforts l seemed to le losing
strength and even any slight exercise
became laborious and troublesome. Dur
ing 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 sore
ness, shortness of breath, and palpita-
tion 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 Ibid eat distressed me;
my sleep became disturbed with the
frequent desire to uiinate. The quan
tity of fluid passed would at one time
be quite profuse. Then for days l would
be perfectly free from this desire and
nothing seemed to be the matter ;
nevertheless my debility gradually in,
creased. My eyelds were puffed out |;
my bowels were alternately torpid and
too active, the urine would be clear
some days, on others it would be of
a high color and deposit a brick-dust
sediment, and at still others there
would be a whitish appearance and a
thin greasy scum would rise to the top.
The pains in my head, back, chest,
joints, bowels and bones were horrible
in the extreme. l went in vain from
place to place aud consulted the best
medical authorities the country affords /;
would have chill one day and a
burning fever the next. | suffered ex
cruciatingly 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 physicians said was suffering
from the dropsy and could not recover.
How could be 80 blind to the terri
BILE 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 ignorant of its nature
as was My skin was the color of
marble at one time, and then again it
. would be like saffron, and this terrible
restlessness, and might say wildness,
was followed by dull, heavy, drowsy
sensation. l was wasted to mere
skeleton except when the dropsical
bloat occurred. tried 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 Philadelphia,
where l was temporarily sojourning,
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 condition,
which no other agency had revealed.
Acting on its advice, had my water
analysed at once, and to my surprise,
albumen and tube casts were found in
large quantities. A skillful physician
was sent for and apprised of the fact.
He said l had Bright's Disease. and
that death was certain. My friends
importuned me TO take remedy which
had won a great reputation for the cure
of all forms of kidney diseases, and 1
therefore lay aside my prejudice and
commenced its use. At first my stom-
ach 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-
ment have regained so of the IS
pounds of flesh / lost during my illness,
and feel as well to-day as l ever did,
and can unreservedly state that my
life was saved by Warmers Safe Kid
ney and Liver Cure, the remedy l
used.
1t may seem strange that !, being a
physician and an ex army surgeon, did
not have the water analyzed before
but such is the fact. | had the symp-
toms of every other disease, and / did
not suspect that my kidneys were in the
least particular out of order and here
is just where ! was in the greatest dan.
ger, and where most people who read
this article are in danger. find that
am only one of thousands who are suf-
fering from kidney disorders,' which,
neglected, surely terminate in Brights
disease. also know that physicians may
treat these disorders for months with
out knowing clearly what the trouble
is, and even after ascertaining the cause
be unable to prevent it. When death,
however, finally overtakes the helpless
victim they disguise its real cause, at
tributing it to heart disease, convulsions,
apoplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinal
meningitis, blood and uremic poisoning,
etc. etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my
thanks to III. H. Warner q Co, of
Rochester, N. Y, for giving the world
such needed and certain specific as
the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, but
such as they are l gladly give them
while to the thousands to whom | have
lectured upon the laws of health and
hygiene commend this letter most
cordially, and warn them to beware of
the insidious nature of "a disease over
which in one form or another, is carry
ing more people to untimely graves
than any other malady.
J. NJ. PORTER, NJ. ID.
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