Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-05

Remarkable statement OF Personal Dang
and T,rovidentlal Faca.,s

Remarkable statement OF Personal Danger
and Providcntlal Escape.
The following story-which is attracting
wide attention from the press--is SO remark
able that we cannot excuse ourselves II we
do not lay It before our readers, even though
its length would ordinarily preclude its I'D
mission to our limited space.
TO the Editor Rochester IN. " Democrat:
Eus-On the first day OF June, 1881, lay at
my residence In this city surrounded by my
friends and waiting for death. Heaven only
knows the agony then endured, for words
can never describe Il. Ard yet II q few
years previous any one had told mo that
was 20 be brought SO low, and by SO terrible
a disease, should have scoffed at the idea.
had always been uncommonly strong and
healthy, and weighed over 200 pounds, and
hardly knew, In my own experience, what
pain or sickness were. Very many people
who will read this statement realize at times
that they are unusually tired and cannot ac-
count for 1t. They feel dull pains in various
parts OF the body and do not under
stand It. Or they are exceedingly hum
CRY one day and entirely without
appetite the next. This was Just the way 1
felt when the relentless malady which had
fastened itself upon me first began. Still 1
thought nothing of IL; that. probably had
taken q cold which would soon pass away.
Shortly after this noticed heavy, and at
times ueu hiBlC, pun IN one b. Oo Oh my nchQ,
but as IL would come one day and be gone the
next, paid little attention to 1t. Then my
stomach would get out of order and my food
often failed TO digest, causing at times great
inconvenience. Yet, even as physician, / did
not think that these things meant anything
serious. fancie1 was suffering from ma
laria and doctored myself accordingly. But
i got no better. / next noticed peculiar
color and odor about the fluids was passing
also that there were large quantities one
day and very little the next, and that per-
sistent froth and scum appeared upon the
surface, and sediment settled. And yet /
did not realize my danger, for, indeed, see
ing these symptoms continually, / fin
ally became accustomed to them, and my
suspicion was wholly disarmed by the fact
that had no pain in the affected organs or in
their vicinity. Why / should have been so
blind cannot understand.
i consulted the best medical skill in the
land. i visited oil the famed mineral springs
In America and Travelled from Maine TO Cali
fornia. Still / grew worse. No two ply
eicians agreed as to my malady. One said I
was troubled with spinal irritation; another,
dyspepsia; another, heart disease; another,
general debility; another, congestion of the
base of the brain; and so on through long
list of common diseases, the symptoms OF
many of which 1 really had. In this way
several years passed, during which time 1
was steadily growing worse. My condition
had really become pitiable. The slight
symptoms at FIRST experienced were devel-
oped into terrible and constant disorders.
My weight had been reduced from 207 to 1870
pounds. My life was burden to myself and
Friends i could retain no food on my
stomach, and lived wholly by injections. I
was a living mass OF pain. My pulse was I'M
comfortable. In my agony / frequently fell
to the floor and clutched the carpet, and
S SUsST o wSfer was Ss
tube casts and a bumen. i was struggling
with Brights disease of the kidneys In Its
last stages!
while suffering thus received a call from
my pastor, the Rev. DIR. Foote, ut that time
rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of this
city. felt that 1t was our last interview,
but in the course OF conversation DIR. Foote
detailed to me the many remarkable cures OF
cases like my own which had come under
his observation by means of a remedy, which
he urged me to try. As a practicing physi-
can and q graduate of the schools derided
the idea of any medicine outside the regular
channels being in the least beneficial. So So
licitous, however, was Or. Foote, that finally
promised i would wave my prejudice. l
began its use on the first day of juno, 1881,
and took It according to directions. At first
it sickened me; but this i thought was a
good sign for one In my debilitated condi-
ton. 1 continued to take It; the sickening
sensation departed and j was finally able to
retain food upon my stomach. In few
days / noticed a decided change for the bet
ter, as also did my wife and friends.
Ny hiccouRhs ceased and i experience
less pain than formerly. was so rejoiced
at this dyP TS%sa % the
of NV family and friends, should recover
would both publicly and privately make
known this remedy for the good OF humanity
wherever and whenever / had an opportuni-
| ty. and this letter is In fuhllment OF that
VOW. My improvement was constant from
| that time and in less than three months had
| gained 20 pounds in flesh, became entirely
| free from pain, and believe owe my lie
| and present condition wholly to warner
| safe cure the remedy which used.
| Since my recovery / have thoroughly re
Investigated the subject OF kidney difhculttCs
| and Bright's disease, and the truths devei
| oped are astounding. / therefore state, de
| liberately, and as a physician, that belev'
more than OnC.hof the deaths tphich occur u
AmeI tea are caused by Brights disease OF N
| kidnels This may sound like rash state
| ment, but / am prepared TO tully VeriI!
It. Bright's disease has no distinctive symp
toms of its own Indeed, It often devei
OBS without any rain whateDer In IN
kidneys or their vicinity, but has tn
symptoms OF nearly every other common
complaint. Hundreds of people die daii
whose buriels are authorized by physician
certificate as occurring from Heart III
| ease 'sA poplexy," paralysis, ""Spinal con
| Is from Bright olScube VI bho hiuuOJo..
physicians, and fewer people, realize the e'
tent OF this disease or its dangerous ana II
sidious nature. II steals into the system lik
a thief, manifests its presence, II at oil, o
} the commonest symptoms, and fastens itse
upon tho constitution before the victim
aware of it. IL is nearly as hereditary
consumption quite as common, and fully
TatIl Entire families, inheriting 1t fro
their ancestors, have died, and yet none
tho number knew or realized the mysterioi
mower which was removing them. Instei
of common symptoms, 1t OFTEN shows MOI
q whatever, but brings death suddenly, FRO
J, commissions, apodexy, or heart diseas
A AS one who has suffered, and knows
= hitter experience what he Gays, implo
= every one who reads these words not to ne
~ loot the ali rhtest symptoms OF kidney iii
4 cultv certain agony and probable dea
viii he The sure result of such neglect, al
NO one onn afford to hazard such chances
lam aware that such an unquallned sta'
ment as this, coming from me, known ~
am tbrou Rhout thu entire land as prac
TONER and lectur. r, will arouse the surpri
and possible animosity OF the medlcal ~
fession and astonish all with whom L am
ouaintcd: but / make the foregoing STA
men,s based upon facts which am prepar
TO produce and truths which can snpst'
tiate 20 the letter. The welfare or those W
NAV possIbly BIO sufferers such as was,
an ammo inducement for me to take the 81
Thave and N can successfully warn 9TH
from the dan yerous path In wnich 4 OF
walked, am willing to endure all proiessl'
n and nersonal consequences.