Dodge City times., 1883-01-25
4 STRANGE REMINISCENCE.
The Escape Of . Well Known ex-Army
Surgeon from. an Unforeseen
Lfl Danger.
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facts connected with my experience which
follow are 90 striking, and bear SO closely up
on the experience of others, that venture to
repro luce them entire:
In the month Of September, 1872 I was
practicing medicine in New Orleans. The sum-
IIcr 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 ysensatiOn, and that should
also partake OF the same universal lassitude
or weakness, did not alarm me. l supposed
that over-work and exposure had pro oluced
made trip TO St. Paul Minn., thinking that
a rest of few weeks in cooler climate
would soon reinvigorate me. Little did
dream, however, what Was in store for lie.
After getting settled in my new qudrters
took a short walk every day. and 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
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. l 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 l would be per-
fectly free from this desire and nothing seemed
to be the matter; nevertheless my debility
gradually increased. My eyelids we're puffed
out; my bowels were alternately torpid and
too active, the urine would be clear some days,
on others it would be of hig color and deposit
a brirk-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 nd
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 chill one day and burning
fever the next. suffered excruci .tingly 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 b!oat and
physicians said Twas suffering from the dropsy
and could not recover. St&&
How could be so blind to the terrible
trouble that was devouring me, l do not
know; but there are thousands to-day who
are suffering from the same use and are as
ignorant of its nature as l was. My skin was
the color of marble at one time, and then
again it would be like saffron, and this terri
BILE restlessness, and l might say wildness,
was followed by dull. heavy. drowsy sensa-
ton. l was wasted to mere skeleton ex-
tept when the dropsical 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 in Philadelph phia, where was
temporarily sojourning, given up to die by
friends and physicians alike. when there
prOvidentially came into my hands little
pamphlet, which csrefully read, and from
which l got view OF my real cOndi-
tion, which no other agency had revealed.
analyzed at once. and to my surprise, al
bumen and tube casts. were found in
large quantities. A skillfu1 physician was
sent for and apprised of the fact. He said I
had Bright's Disease, and that death was
certain. My friends importuned me to take
a remedy which had won great reputati on 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 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 SO of the 65 pounds of
flesh lost dur ng my illness, and l feel as
we'll 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 l, being physi-
clan and ar ex-army surgeon, did not have the
water analyzed before; tut such is the ct.
l had the sym toms 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 gre test danger, and
where most people who read this article are
in danger. l ii that an only one of thou
sands who are suffering from kidney disor-
derS. which, neg iected, 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 as certaining the cause, be unable to pre-
vent it. When death, however, finally over
takes the helpless victim they disguise its real
cause, attributing it to heart-disease, convul-
sions, apoplexy. vertigo, paralysis, spinal
blood and uremic poisoning, etc.,
etc.
Woris, OF course, fail to express my thanks |;
to H. H. Warner Il Co., of Rochester, n. Y.
FOR giving the world such needed aud 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 aud hygiene 1 |
commend this letter most cordially, and warn
them to beware Of the iasidious nature of |
disease over which physicians confess they |