Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-25
4 4 STRANGE "REMINISCENCES.
The Escape OF q Wen Known ex-Army
Surgeon from an Unforeseen
Is Danger. ~ !.
Baltimore American.l

s Baltimore Aincrican.,
-Nessrs. 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, I was
practlcing MEDICINE in New Orleans. The sum-
ier had been excessively hot and every cody
was complaining Of being exhausted aud feel
ing tired. 1t was not an unfreQuent occur
renee to have patients ask for something to
relieve this weary sensation, and that Ishould
also partake of the same universal lassitude
or weakness, did not alarm me. l suppos ed
that orer-work and exposure had ploduced a
Temporary physical prostration; therefore
made d trip to ST. Paul. Mimi, thinking tn at
a rest of few weeks in a cooler climate
would soon reinvigorate me. Little did I
dream, however, what was in store for ne.
After getting settled in my new quarters l
took short walk every day. aud patiently
ava ted 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
1 had frequent dull aching pains, in
hips, occasional shooting pains in various parts
of the be- ~, 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. hid 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
atone time be small and at another quite
profuse. Then for days l would be per-
fectly free from this desire and nothing seemed
to be the matter; nevertheless my debility
gradually increased. My eyeIids we're pulled
out; my bowels were alternately torpid and
too active, the urine would be clearsome days,
brick-dust sediment, and at still Others there
would be u whitish appearance and a thin
greasy scum would rise to the top. The pains
n my head back, chest, joints, bowels md
In vain from place to place and consulted the
best medical authorities the country affords;
l would have a chill one day and burning
fever the next suffered excruciatingly 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 devouring me, I do not
know; but there are thousands to-day who
are suffering from the same Cause and are as
ignorant of it's nature as I was. My skin was
again it would be like saffron and this terri
BILE res.lessness. and I might say wildness,
was followed by a dull. heavy, drowsy sensa-
ton. was wasted to mere skeleton ex-
tried all the celebrated mineral waters of this
country, and Europe; all kinds of medicine
and all kinds of doctors. Still no help came.
l lay at my hotel in Philadelphia, where was
temporarily sojourning, given up to die by
providentially came into my hands little
pamphlet, which carefully read, and from
which | got view of my real condi-
ton, which no other agency had revealed.
analyzed at once, and to my surprise. al
bumen and tube casts were found in
large quantities. skillful physician was
sent for and apprised of the fact. He said
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
it and 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 perma-
nent. I have regained so Of the 65 pouads of
flesh lost dur. ng my Illness, and l feel as
well tod y 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 /, being physl-
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 dneys 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. 1 fad that an only one of thou
sands who are suffering from kidney disor
ders, which, neglected, surely terminate in
Bright's disease. l also know that physicians
may treat these disorders for months without
knowing clearly what the trouble is, and even
after astertaining the cause, be unable to pre-
vent it. When death, however, finally over
takes the helpless victim they dis uise its real
cause, attributing it to heart-disease, convul-
sions, apoplexy,. vertigo, paralysis, spinal
blood and uremic poisoning, ETC.,
etc.
Words, Of course, fail to express my thanks
to H. H, Warner y Co., of Rochester, N. Y,
for giving the world such needed and GER
tain specific as the Sale Kidney and Liver
Cure, but such as they are gladlygive them
while to the thousands to whom have lect-
ured upon the laws of health and hygiene l
this letter most cordially, and warn
tn EN- to beware of the insidious nature Of a
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, NJ. D.,
Baltimore, Nd, "a Saratoga Street.