The Opelousas courier., 1883-08-11
RE.INYESTIGATED.
A Remarkable Statement Fully Confirmed
by Three Important Interviews.

An unusual art Gle from the Rochester
IN. W Democrat and Chronicle was pub
Gshed in this paper recently and has been the
sub ect of much conS ersatic n both in pro-
fessional circles and on the street. ApIar-
emily it caused more commotlon in Roches-
ter, as the following from the same paper
shows
DR.. j. B. Henion, who is vel known not
only in Rochester, but in nearly every TART
of America, sent an extended article to this
paper, a few days since, which was duly pub
listed, detailing his remarkable experience
and rescue from what seemed to be certain
death. 1t would be Impossible to en- merate
the personal in, uiries which have been made
at our o! ce q to the valldi y OF the article,
bu5they have been 30 nuu erous that further
inves igation of the subject was deemed an
editorial ne3e slty.
With this end in view a representa- We OF
this paper called on DR.. Henion at his resi-
dence, when the following interview OCCUR
red:
"That article of yours, doctor, has crea-
ted quite a wbirlwind. Afe the statements
about the terrible condition you were in, and
the way you we're rescued such as you can
sCs.ain?"
"Eyery one of them and many additional
ones. Few people ever get so ne2r the grave
as Ibid and then return, and | am not sur
prised that the public think it marvellous. 1t
was marvellous
"How in the world did you, a phys;c' al,
come to be brought so low!"
"By neg,ecting the first and most simple
SYMPTOMS. l did not think [ was sick. 1t
is true | had frequent headaches; felt tired
most of the time; could elt nothing one day
and was ravenoCs the next: felt dull, indeti-
mite pains, and my stomachw was out of ORDER,
ont l did not think it meant anything Sc
gious.'
"But have these common ailments any
thing to do with The fearful Bright's disease
which took o firm a hold on you:"
"Anything? Why, they are the sure in1i-
cations of the first stages of that dreadful
malady. TIL fact is, few people kEo or
realize what all them, and | am sorry to say
that too few physic ans do either"
"TEat is a strange statement, DOCTOR"
"But it is a true one. The medic ! pro
fess;on have been treating symptoms instead
of djseas IS for yelrs, and 1t is high time 1t
ceased. We doctors have been clipping Of
the twigs when we should strike at the root.
The symptoms I have Just mentioned or any
unusual acticn Or irritation of the water
channels indicate thu approach o. Bright's
d sease even moe than a cough anne lnces
The coming of consumption. We do not
treat the cough, bat try to help the Lungs.
We sholld not waste our time trying to re-
lie 9 the headache, stomach, pains about The
oody or other symptoms, but go directly 10
The kidney the source of mot oil these all
nents."
"This, then, is what you meant when you
ala more Itldll O46-lHIt b u l6a-DS Which,
,ccur arise from Br.ght's disease, is it
~ioctor?'
sP. o ,isely. Thousands of so-called dis
.ase3 are tortur,ng people to-day, when i'll
eality it is Bsight's disease in some one IF
is many forms. 1t is a Hydra, ealed mon-
fer and the slightest symptom should strike
err or 10 every one who has them. l cln
COX back and recall hundreds of deaths
which physicians declared at the time were
caused by paralysis, apoploxy, heart disc Sc,
pneumo1 ia, malarial fever and other COM
mon complaints WHICH lseenow were caused
by Bright's disease
"And did all these Eases have simple
symptoms At first
every one of them, and might have been
erred as [ was by the timely use of the saTe
acknowledgements Safe Cure. [ am getting
my eyes tho ghly open in this matter and
and the possible danger also. Why. there
are no end of truths bearing on this subject.
If you want to know more about it go and
see Mr.. Warner hiusaf. He was sick the
same as /, and is the healthiest mar in
Rochester to-day. He has made a study of
this subject and can give you more facts
than / can. Go, too, and see DR.. Lattimsre,
the chemist, at the University. If you want
facts there are any quantity of them show
in !, the alarming increase of Bright 5 dis
ease, its simple and deceptive symptoms,
and there is but one way by which it can be
escaped"
Fully satisfied of the tru h and force of the
Doctors words, the reporter babe him good
day and called On Mr.. Warner at his es.ab-
lishmtnt on Exchange street. At first Mr..
Waraer was inclined to be %reticent, but learn
ing that the information desired wasabout
the alarming increase of Bright's disease, his
manner chan yedinstantly, and he spoke very
car estjy:
cit is true that Brjght's disease has in
crea ed wonderfully, and we find, by reliable
statistics, that in The past ten years its
growth has been 25O per cent. Look at tho
Su n Chase, Wilson, Carpenter, Bishops
Haven and Peck, and others. This is terri
BILE, and shows a greater growth than that of
any other kno wn complaint. 1t should be
plain to every one that something must be
done to check this increase or there is no
knowing where it may end"
"Do you think many people are afflicted
with it to-day who do not realize it, Mr..
Warner?'
Hundreds of thousands. I have a strik-
ing example of this truth which has just
come to my notice. A prominent professor
ing before his class on the subject of Bright's
disease. He had various fluids under micro
scopic analysis, and was showing the stu
dents what the indications of thus terrible
malady were. In order to show the contrast
between healthy and unhealthy fluids he hal
pIO' lO6ud yldlg bHS COltSlIto VI tIS WIZ
drawn from his own person. And now,
gentlemen he said, as we have seen the
unhealthy indications [ will show GU how it
appears in a state of perfect health, and he
submitted his own fluid to the usual test. As
he watched the results his countenance sud
denly c~hanged-his color and command both
left him, and in a trembling voice he said:
Gentlemen, / have made a painful dis
coyery; l have Bright's disease of the kid.
neys.' and in less than a year he was dead"
"You believe, then, that it has no symp-
E@toms of its own and is frequently unknown
even by the person who is afflicted with it,"
sit has no symptoms of its own and very
often none at all. Usually no W people
have thu same symptoms, and frequently
death is the first symptom. The slightest
indication of any kidney difficulty should be
enough to strike terror to any one. l know
what | am talking about, for I have been
through all the stages of kidney disease"
You know of DR.. Henion's case!"
ayes, I have both read and heard of it."
at is very wonderful, is it not!"
ga very prominent case, but no more so
than a great many others that have come to
my notice as having been cured by the same
mems"
"You believe, then, that Bright's disease
can be cured?"
81 know it can. know it from the expe-
rience of humid DDS of prominent persons who
and friends"
"You speak of your OWE experience, what
was it?"
"Afearful one. Ihad fel tlanguid and un-
fitted for business for years. But | did not
know what allied me. When, however, l
found it was kidney difficulty, I thought
there was little hope. and so did the doctors.
clans of this city po.ntadme out to a gentle
man on the street one day, saying, there