Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-16
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A SAD LIFE HISTORY.
The Story of John ROgers-His Rescue
from Death.

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from Death.
! From tie Ahdntd (6d.) Constitution, March Lth.
| About eighteen years ago John j. ROg-
! ers was one of the brightest young men in
the service of the Southern Express Com
| pany-a popular, active and capable
| young fellow, numbering friends by the
! hundred, devoted to his business, and
| enjoying the fullest confidence of his en-
! ployers. Handsome and vigorous, his life
promised as much of happiness and use
| fulness as almost any of the young men
who then made up Atlanta's population.
! He was generous, whOle-sOuled fellow,
| and his praise was in eVerybody's mouth
About that time he contracted fearful
! disease that batlled the skill of the physi-
| clans and made him a complete wreck
| 1t robbed him of his VigOr, his ewes lost
their brightness and step its elasticity.
| He soon after threw up his position, being
unable to attend to any business. He was
! covered with sores, his eyes became affect
cd, and the excessive use of mercury
brought on paralysis, and he at length
! found his way to the poor house, wretch
ed man. He had tried every physician in
Atlanta and had been to the Hot Springs
twice, without avail. At length the dis
ease attacked his brain, and he became an
imbecile. He was unable to tell his own
name; did not know the day of the week
or month; was barely able to walk, drag
cling one leg after the other like a scOtched
snake. For years he lived in the poor
house, on bright days riding to town on
the poor house wagon, receiving money
from those of his friends who met him.
At length the prOprietOrs of Swift's Spe-
citic determined to give their medicine
trial in his case. They realized that
through a simple indiscretiOn this Young
fellow, of good mind, disposition and pros
poets, had become wreck, and they be-
lieved that their remedy would cleanse
his system and restore him once more to
health and reason. About one year ago
they gave him the first dose of the Spe-
cific, which he has continued to take
since. The result has been wonderful
| On yesterday morning he walked seven
miles from the poor house into the city
without the least fatigue. The effects Of
the mercury still makes his Joints some
what stiff, but his blood has been thor
Oughly cleansed and purified, and his sys-
| TEN to-day is free from the slightest faint
of the disease that brought him to such
wretched straits. He has recovered his
reason, sight and voice, and speaks dis
tinctly, hopefully and intelligently. He
says:
81 feel, for the first time in eighteen
years, that my blood, instead of being a
poison that eats my life away, is once
more clean and healthy, and that | have
many years of life, and hope of useful
ness, ahead of me-"
He says further: II owe my life to the
owners of the Swift's Specific. They came
| to me when / was in bed and paralvzed.
All the physicians had given my case up
as hopeless, and | did not have enough of
reason left to know what they were pro-
! posing to do when they began to treat me.
was as simple child, and did not know
| the men who came to my bedside. If they
| had let me alone l am satisfied n few
months would have ended my wretch
| ed life, and that | would months
ago have been dead and forgotten
/ Through the use of Swift's Specific nv
| strength and reason gradually returned
to me, until | now feel that l am cured;
and if it were not for lingering traces of
the mercury still left in my joints, 1 would
be as active and vigorous as ever was.
/ want the public to know what this med
icine has done for me, that others who
are suffering, as | have, a thousand deaths
| for the past eighteen years, may get the
remedy in time to arrest their disease be-
fore it has dethrOned their reason and
| robbed them of their strength, and before
the use of minerals has poisoned their
| systems beyond recovery"
The above is the history of a remarka-
bic case. The subject is delicate one to
! deal with, and the story told is almost in
credible. We have endeavored to state
nothing but the exact truth. There are
thousands in Atlanta who know the sad
history of this young man, and who have
seen him at intervals for the past eighteen
years, and who will testify that we have
not done justice to the horrors of his case.
He can be seen now any day on the streets,
and the above statement verified by acOn-
versation with him. 1t is doubtful if the
range of medicine shows a more desper-
| ate case or speedier cure.