Connecticut western news., 1883-01-24
A STRANGE REMINIsCENCE.
The Escape of a We'll Known ex.Army Sur- geOn from an Unforeseen Danger.
(Boltimoye Americon.)

(Boltimore American.)
 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 and feeling tired. It was not an unfrequent occurrence to have patients ask for some that should also partake of the same uni versal lassitude or weakness, did not alarm me. Supposed that overwork and exposure had produced temporary physical prostra- ton; therefore l 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 me. After getting settled in my new quarters l took short walk every day, and patiently awaited return of strength, losing strength; and even any slight ex- ercise became laborious and tiresome During this time 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 the heat the next. Ihad no desire for food, and what l did eat distressed me i; my sleep became disturbed with the frequent passed would at one time be small and at another quite profuss. Then for days would be perfectly free from this desire and nothing seemed to be the matter never eyelids were puifed out; my bowels were alternately torpid and too active, the urine would be clear some days, on others 1t would be of hi gh color and deposit brick dust sediment, and at still others there would be whitish appearance and a thin greasy 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 |; would have chill one day and a burning fever the next. suffered excruciatingly with @ Rumbness 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 1 was. My skin was the color of marble at one time, and then again it would be like saffron, and this terrible rest lessness, and might say wildness, was fol- lowed by dull, heavy, drowsy sensation. was wasted to a mere skeleton except when the dropsical bloat occurred. I tried all the celebrated mineral waters of this country and Europe; all kinds of medicine and all kinds of doctors. Still no.help came. I lay at my hotel in Philadelphia, where I was temporarily soJourning, given up to die by friends and physicians alike, when there providentially came into my hands little pamphlet, which carefully read and from which got view of my real condition, which no other agency had revealed. Acting on it's advice, had my water analysed at once, and to my surprise, albumen and tube casts were found in large quantities. A skill full physician was sent for and apprised of the fact. He said l had Bright's Disease, and that death was certain. My friends i'm portuned me to take a remedy which had won a great reputation for the cure of all forms of kidney diseases, and I therefore laid aside my prejudice and commenced its use. At first nay 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. I have regained fifty of the sixty-fvs pounds of flesh lost during my illness, and feel as edly state that my life was saved by Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy I used.
 It may seem strange that I, being physi- 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 kid neys 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. I 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 to heart disease, convulsions, apo plexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinal meningetis, blood and urennic poisoning, etc., etc.
 Words, of course, fail to express my thanks to H. H. Warner & Co.,, of Rochester, N. r., for giving the world such needed and cer- tain specific as the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, but such as they are gladly give them; while to the thousands to whom I have lee tured upon the laws of health and hygiene I commend this letter most cordially, and warn them to beware of the insidious nature of 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 melady.
 J. M. PORTER, M. D., Baltimore, Md, 94 Saratoga street.
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