The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-01-27
4 STRANGE REMINIsCENCE.
The Escape Of . Vol Known sx-Army
Surgeon from an Unforeseen
Danger.
fBdltimors Anertcon.l

tBaltsmors Americana
Kessrs. Editors:
seldom appear publicly in print, but the
facts connected with my experience which
follow are so striking, and bear so closely up
on the experience of others, that venture to
repro luce them entire:
In the month of September, 1879, / was
pracLicing medicine in New Orleans The sum
mcr had been excessively hot and everybody
was complaining OF being exhausted and feel
ing tired. 1t was not an unfreQuent occur
renee 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 oyer-work and exposure had produced
temporary physical prostration; therefore l
made trip to st. Paul. MINI, thinking that
would soon reinvigorate me. Little did l
dream, however, what was In store for me.
After getting settled In my new quarters
took 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 la
borious and tiresome. During this time
l had frequent dull aching 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 palpitation 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 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 from this desire and nothing seemed
gradually increased. My eyelids we're pulled
out; my bowels were alternately torpid and
too active, the urine would be clear some days,
on others it would be Of high color and deposit
a brick-dust sediment, and at still Others there
would be a whitish appearance and thin
greasy scum would rise to the top The pains
In my head, back, chest, Joints, bowels md
bones were horrible In the extreme. l went
In vain from place 10 place and consulted the
best medical authorities the country affords;
would have chill one day and burning
fever the next. / suffered excruciitingly with
a 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 so blind to the terrible
trouble that was deyouring me, j do not
know; but there thousands to-day who
are suffering from the same use and are
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 terri
bic estlessness, and | might say wdncss,
was followed by dull. heavy, drowsy sensa-
ton. was wasted to a mere skeleton ex-
j
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 was
temporarily sojourning, given up to die by
friends and physicians alike, when there
providentially came into my hands a little
pamphlet, which clrefully read, and from
which | got view of my real condi-
tion, which no other agency had revealed.
Acting on its advice, | had my water
I'D at fn al
bumen and tube casts were found in
large quantities. A skllful physician was
sent for and apprised of the fact. He said
had Bright's Disease, and that death was
certain. My friends importuned me to take
remedy which had won great reputation for
the cure OF all forms of kidney diseases, and
therefore laid aside my prejudice and COM
menced its use. At first my stomach rejected
1t 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 80 OF the IS pounds OF
flesh lost during my illness, and feel as
well today as ever did and can unreserved-
ly state that my life was saved by Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy
used.
1t may seem strange that l, being a physi-
clan and an ex-army surgeon, did not have the
water analysed before; but such is the fact.
l had the SYMPTOMS 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 danger, and
where most people who read this article are
in danger. / find that l 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, and even
after ascertaining the cause, be unable to pre-
vent it. When death, however, finally over
takes the helpless victim they disguise its real
cause, attributing 1t to heart-diseasc, convul-
sions, apoplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinal
MENINGITIS, blood and uremic poisoning, etc.,
etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my thanks
TO Ii. H. Warner d Co., of Rochester, N Y,
for giving the world such needed and GER
tain specific as the Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure, but such as they are | gladly give them;
while TO 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 iasidious nature of
disease over which physicians confess they
have no control and which, in one form or
another, is carrying more people to untimely
graves than any other malady
j. NJ. PORTER, M. D.,
Baltimore, Md, "a Saratoga Street.
Is 1T proper to ask man how he is get
wh bn hac INC off