The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
ASjRANGE "REMINISCENCES.
The Escnpc of "a We'll Known ex-Army sur
seOn from an Unforeseen Danger.


Mcssrs. 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 1 venture
to reproduce them entire:
| In the month of September, 1879, was
prac!icing medicine in New Orleans. The
| summer had been excessively hot and every
body was complaining of being exhausted
and feeling tired. 1t was not an unfrequent
occurrence to haze patients ask for some
| thing to relieve this weary sensation, and
that should also par,ake of the same uni
yersal lasstude or weakness, did not alarm
me. supposed that overwork and exposure
had produced a temporary physical prostra-
! ton; therefore / made trip to st. Paul,
Mimi, thinking that rest of Il few weeks in
| n cooler climate would soon reinvigOrate me.
Little did l dream, however, what was in
store for me. After getting settled in my
| new quarters | took n short walk every day,
and patiently awaited Il return of strength,
but III spite of all my efforts | seemed to be
losing strength; and even any slight ex-
erclse became labOrious and tiresome.
During this time had frequent dull aching
pains III my head, and through my back and
| hips, occasional shooting pains in various
parts of the body, with soreness, shortuess
of breath, and palpitation of the heart. My
feet and hands would be like ice one day, and
burn with the neat the next. 1had no desire
for food, and what did eat distressed me
my sleep became 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 perfectly free from this desire and
nothing seemed to be the matter; never
theless my debility gradually increased. My
eyellds were 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
nlH of gti nth hnr l.,
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. went 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. l suffered overwhelmingly
with anumb1ess 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 suffer-
| ing from the dropsy and could not recover.
How 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 ignorant OF
its nature as | was. My skin was the color
of marble at one time, and then again il
would he like saffron, and this terrible rest
lessness, and might say wildness, was fol-
| lowed by dull, heavy, drowsy sensation. |
| was wasted tC Il mere skeleton except when
the drOpscal 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 i'll Philadelphia, where l was
temporarily sojourning, given up to die by
friends and physicians alike, when there
nrovidenilally came into my hands a little
pamphlet, which | carefully read and from
which got a view of my real condition,
which no other agency had revealed. Acting
on its advice, | had my water analysed al
| once, and to my surprise, albumen and tube
casts were found i'll large quantities. A skill
| full physician was sent for and appraised of
the fact. He said l had Bright's Disease,
and that death was certain. My friends i'm
| portuned NE to take a remedy which had
won great reputation for the cure of all
| forms of kidney diseases, and | therefore
laid aside my prejudice and commenced its
use. At first my stomach 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 permanent.
| have regained fifty of the sixty-five pounds
of flesh | lost during my illness, and feel as
well to-day as l ever did, and l can unreserv-
eddy state that my life was saved by Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy
used
1t may seem strange that |, being physi-
clan and an ex-army surgeon, did not have
the water analysed before but such is the
TACT. L had the symptoms of every other
disease, and did not suspect that my kid
neys were iii 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 i'll danger | find that I am
only one of thousands who are suffering
from kidney disorders, which, neglected,
surely terminate in Bright's disease. also
know that physicians may treat these dis
orders for months without knowing clearly
what the trouble is, and even after ascertain
ing the cause be unable to prevent it. When
death, however, finally overtakes the helpless
victim they disguise its real cause, attribu-
ting it 10 heart disease, commissions, apo
plexy, vertigo paralysis, spinal meningitis,
blood and uremic poisoning, etc, etc.
Words, of course, fail 10 express my thanks
TO II. III. Warner IL Co., of Rochester, N. Y,
for giving the world such Il needed and GER
tain specific as the Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure, but such as they are gladly give them;
while TO the thousand to whom l have lee
tured upon the laws Of health and hygiene l
commend this Letter most cordially, and
warn them 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 un-
timely graves than any other malady.
j. NJ. PORTER, M. D.,
Baltimore, Nd, "a Saratoga street.