The Florida agriculturist., 1885-02-18
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE!
Remarkable Statement of Personal
Danger aud ProvidentiAl Escape.

ln6 IOllOWlng SIOry-Wn1cn is dUCTdCJ-
ing wide attention from the press-is so
remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves if we do not lay it before our read
ers, even though its length would ordi-
narily preclude its admission to our limit
ed space.
To the Editor Rochester IN " Democrat:
SIR:-On the first day of June, 1881,
lay at my residence in this city surround
ed by my friends and waiting for death.
Heaven only knows the agony then en-
dured, for words can never describe it..
And yet, if few years previous any one
had told me that l was to 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 account for it. They feel dull
pains in various parts of the body and
do not understand it. Or they are eX-
ceedingly hungry one day and entirely
without appetite the next. This was just
| the way felt when the relentless mala-
DIV which had fastened itself upon me
| first began. Still thought nothing of
| it; that probably | had taken a cold
which would soon pass away. Shortly
after this | noticed a heavy, and at times
neuralgia, pain in one side of my head,
but as it would come one day and be gone
| the next, I paid little attention it. 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. l Ifancied
l was suffering from malaria and doctor
ed myself accordingly. But I got no
better. l next noticed peculiar color
and odor about the fluids l was passing
I also that there were large quantities
one day and very little the next, and that
a persistent froth and scum appeared
upon the surface, and a sediment settled
And yet l did not realize my danger, for
| indeed, seeing these symptoms contin-
ually | finally became accustomed to
them, and my suspicion was wholly dis
armed by the fact that l had no pain in
the affected organs or in their vicinity.
| Why / should have been SO blind /
cannot understand.
! consulted the best medical skill in
the land. l visited all the famed miner
al springs in America, and travelled from
Maine to California. Still grew worse.
No two physicians agreed as to my NAL
ady. One said 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 ! really had. In this way sew
eral years passed, during which time |
was steadily growing worse. My condi-
| ton had really become pitiable. The
slight symptoms l at first experienced
were developed into terrible and con-
stant disorders. My weight had been re-
duced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was
a burden to myself and friends. could
retain no food on my stomach, and lived
wholly by injections. / was a living
mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrol-
liable. In my agony frequently fell to
the floor and clntched the carpet, and
prayed for death. Morphine had little
or no effect in deadening the pain. For
six days and nights had the death-pre-
monitory hiccoughs constantly. My
water was filled with tube-casts and
albumen. l was struggling with Bright's
Disease of the kidneys in it's last stages
While suffering thus I received call
from my pastor, the Rev. DIR. Foote, at
that time rector of st. Pauls Episcopal
Church, of this city. felt that it 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 OBJ
servation, by means of a remedy which
he urged me to try. AS practicing ply
sician and graduate OF the schools,
derided the idea of any medicine outside
the regular channels being in the least
beneficial. So solicitous, however, was
DIR. Foote, that finally promised would
waive my pejudice. began its use, on
the first day of June, 1881, and took it
according to directions At first it sick
ened me, but this / thought was good
sign for one in my debilitated condition.
l continued to take it; the sickening SEN
sation departed, and | was finally able
to retain food upon my stomach. In
few days | noticed a decided change for
the better las also did my wife and friends.
Ny hiccoughs ceased, and experienced
less pain than formerly. l was so re-
ioiced at this improved condition that,
upon what / had believed but few days
before was my dying bed, l vowed, in the
presence of my family and friends, should
| recover would both publicly and pri-
vately make known this remedy for the
good of humanity, wherever and when
ever l had an opportunity, and this let
ter is in fulflment Of that vow. My inn
provement was constant from that time,
and in less than three months | had
gained 26 pounds in flesh, became entire
" free from pain, and l believe / owe
my life and present condition wholly to
Warmers Safe Cure, the remedy which
used.
Since my recovery / have thoroughly
re-investigated the subject of kidney diff
ficulties and Bright's disease, and the
truths developed are astounding. /
therefore state, deliberately, and as
physician, that believe that more than