Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-01-19
"A STRANGE "REMINISCENCES.
The Escape. OF well Known ex-Army
Surgeon from an Unforeseen
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3 seldom appear publicly In print, but the
facts connected with my experience which
follow are so striking, and bear so closely up
ON tho experience of others, that venture TO
repro luce them entrei .U. ...f..
In the sonth OF September 1879, was
practicing medicine in New Orleans. The sum
mer had been excessively hot and everybody
was complaining OF being exhausted and feel
Ing tired! 1t was not an unfrcquent occur
renee to have patients ask for sQmcthing to
relieve this weary sensation, and that should
also partake OF the same universal lassitude
or weakness, did not alarm me, supposed
temporary physical prostrationi therefore I
made trip to St Paul, Mimi, thinking that
| rest OF few weeks In a cooler climate
would soon reinyigorate me. Little did
dream, however, what was In store for me;
After getting settled in my new quarters I
took short walk every day.. and patiently
| awaited return OF strength, but In spite OF
sli my efforts seemed to be losing strength;
and even any slight exercise became la
borious and tiresome., During this time
had frequent dull aching pains in
my head, and through my back and
hips, occasional shooting pains In various pSts
of the bo ly, with soreness shortages Of breath,
and palpitation of the heart. My feet and
hands would be likeice one day, and burn with
heat the next had no desire for food, and
| what did cat 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
feotly free from thisdeslre andnothing seemed
| to be the matter; nevertheless my debility
| gradually increased. My eyelids were pulled
cut; my bowels were alternately torpid and
| toe active, the urine would he clear some days,
on others 1t would be of highcolor and deposit
brick-dust sediment, and at still others there
! would bo o whitish appearance and a thin
| greasy scum would rise to the top. The pains
In my head, back, chest, JOINTS bowels md
| bones were horrible In the extreme. went
| In vain from place to place and consulted the
best medical authorities the country affords; /;
| would have chill one day and a burning
| fever the next. I suffered excruci ltingly 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 Twas suffering from the dropsy
| and could not recover. ttN'"
How could be SO blind to the terrible
trouble that was deyouring me, do not
knew; but there are thousands to-day who
are suffering from the same use and are as
| ignorant of its nature as i wsszaMy skin was
| the color OF marble at one time, and then
| again 1t would be like saffron, and this terri
| BILE restlessness, and i might say wildness,
| was followed by dull. heavy, drowsy sensa-
tlon. was wasted to mere skeleton, ex,
| eept when the dropsicil bloat occurred. i
tried ali the celebrated mineral waters OF this
country and Europe;s all kinds of medicine
aud 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 physicians alike, when there
providentially came into my hands little
pamphlet, which l clrefully read aud from
which / got view of my real condi-
tion, which no other agency had revealed.
| Acting on its advice, / had my water
analyzed at once and to my SURPRISE, al
bumen and tube casts were found in
large quantities. A skillful physician was
sent for and apprised of the fact. lie said
had Bright's Disease, and that death was
certain. My friends importuned me to take
q remedy which had won agreat reputation for
| the cure of all forms of kidney diseases, and
| menced its use. At first my stomach rejected
| 1t and had to use small quantities; but after
| the first i've days my stomach retained full
doses. This was one year ago last October,
| and my improvement was rapid and perma-
nent- have regained so of the 65 pounds OF
flesh lost during my illness, and i feel as
| we'll tod y as ever did, and can unreserved-
| ly state that my life was saved by Warmers
| used. H.
| 1t may seem strange that l, being physl.
clan and an ex-uImy surgeon, did not have the
water analyZed before; hut such is the faet.
had the sym! toms OF every other disease,
| and l did not suspect that my k 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 / flud that i am only one Of thou
sands who ore 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, andeven
after ascertaining the cause, be unable to pre-
vent it. When death, however, finally over:
takes the helpless victim they disguise itsrea
cause, attributing 1t to heart-diselse, conyul-
sions, apoplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spina
meningitis, blood and uremic poisoning, etc.
etc.
Words, of course, fail to express my thank.
| to II. II. Warner d Co., of Rochester, N. Y.
for giving the world such a needed and GER
tain specific as the Sale Kidney and Live
Cure, but such as they are gladly give them
while TO the thousands to whom have lect.
ured upon the laws of health aud hygiene
commend this letter most cordially, and war;
4 them to beware of the insidious nature of
disease over which physicians confess they
have no control and which, in one form O
another, is carrying more people to untimely
graves than any other malady
t'Il J. NJ. PORTER, NJ. D.,
Baltimore, Nd, "a Saratoga Street.
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