Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-10
A Strange Reminiscence.
The Escape of a We'll Known Ex-Army Surgeon from an Unforeseen Danger.
 Baltimore Auerican.l

Surgeon from an Unforeseen D0mg0rs
 Baltimore American.I
 Messrs Editors:
 seldom appear publicly in print, but the facts connected with my experience which follow are so striking, and bear so closely upon the experience of others, that venture to reproduce them entire:
 In the month of September, 1879, was practicing medicine in New Orleans The summer had been excessively hot and every body was complaining of being exhausted l and feeling tired. It was not an unfrequent | occurrence to have the patients ask for some | thing to relieve this weary sen satlon, and | that should also partake of the same uni- | yersal lassitude or weakness did not alarm | me- I supposed that over-work and expos | ure had produced temporary physical pros tration therefore made trip to St. Paul. | Minn., thinking that rest of 8 few days in a cooler climate would soon reinvlgorate me. Little did dream, however, what was in store for nae. After getting settled in my new quarters I 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 be- came laborious and tiresome. During this time had frequent dull aching pains in my | head, and through my back and hips, occas- I ional shooting pains in various parts of the | body, with soreness shortness of breath, and palpitation of the heart. My feet and hands l would be like ice one day, and burn with
 
 | 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 pro-
 fuse. Then for days I would be perfectly | free from this desire and nothing seemed to | be the matter; nevertheless my debility | gradually increased. My eyelids were puffed out my bowels were alternately torpid and 1 too active, the urine would be clear some l days, on others it would be of high color and I,~sa a11 IT1ct ond of Gf1
 others there would be whitish appearance
 and 8 thin greasy scum would rise to the top.
 The pains in my head, back, chest, joints,
 bowels and bones were horrible in the ex-
 treme. went in vain from place to place
 and consulted the best medical authorities
 the country affords I would have chill | one day and a burning fever the next. l
 suffered excruciatingly 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 physl- clans said I was suffering from dropsy and | could not recover.
 How I could be so blind to the terrible
 trouble that was devouring me, do not know; but there are thousands to-day who /: are suffering from the same cause and are as l ignorant of it's nature as l was. My skin was the color of marble at one time, and , then again it would be like saffron, and this U terrible restlessness and I might say wild ness, was followed by 8 dull, heavy, drowsy e sensation I was wasted to mere skeleton
 | except when the dropsical bloat occurred. l
 tried all the celebrated mineral waters of this
 ] country and Europe; all kinds of medicine . | and all kinds of doctors. Still no help came U I lay at my hotel in Philadelphia, where
 | was temporarily sojourning, given up to die . by friends and physicians alike, when there u | providentially came into my hands little . pamphlet, which I carefully read and from s which I got 8 view of my real condition y which no other agency had revealed. Acting ID on its advice, I had my water analysed al II once, and, to my surprise, albumen and tube l 1 casts were found in large quantities. u skillful physician was sent for and apprlsec
 of the fact. He said had Bright's disease 7I and that death was certain My friends i'm ,o portuned me to take remedy which hae H won a great reputation for the cure of al y forms of kidney diseases and therefore S laid aside my prejudice and commenced 1t u use At first my stomach rejected 1t and :: had to use small quantities.; but after thu e i first five days nay stomach retainedfull doses 7 1i This was one year ago last October, and m. | improvement was rapid and permanent. c have regained 50 of the 65 pounds of flesh U lost during my illness and feel as well nov |" as I ever did, and can unreservedly stat .. that my life was saved by Warner's Saf 11TT Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy used II - It may seem strange that I, being physi
 elan and an ex-army surgeon, did not hay :,7 the water analysed before; but such Is tn m ltt fact. had the symptoms of every othe lg disease, and did not suspect that my kid , neys were in the least particular out of order 2 and here is just where was in the greates ,MS M danger, and where most people who req y this article are in danger. find that aT m 'n only one of thousands who are sufferin ay from kidney disorders, which, neglected aS surely terminate in Bright's disease. I als in know that physicians may treat these disol Il tn ders for months without knowing clearl IL, what the trouble is, and, even after ascertain 'o an ing the cause, be unable to prevent il 0 When death, however, finally overtakes th
 helpless victim they.disguise it's real cause, a o o tributing it to heart disease, convulsionI 0l apoplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinal meniI gitis, blood and uremic poisoning, etc, ett y Words, of course, fail to express my thank to H. Fl. Warner & Co.,, of Rochester, N.
 for giving the world such needed and ce
 tain specific as the Safe Kidney and Live IS. Cure, but such as they are gladly give then be while to the thousands to whom have let oh tured upon the laws of health and hygiene v. commend this letter most cordially, and war e. them to beware of the insidious nature of ,t, disease over which physicians confess the h. have no control and which in one form ( nd another is carrying more people to ultinel " graves than any other malady.
 ed J. M PORTER, M. D m Baltimore, Md. 94 Saratoga street.