Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
A rHRILL1NG EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable state msnt OfPersonal Danger
and Presidential Escape.

| ing wide attention from the presS-lS So
remarkable that We cannot excuse our
selves if we do not lay it before our
readers. even though its length would
ordinarily preclude its admission to our
limited space.
To the Editor Rochester IN. W Demo
crat: o.
Sir on the first day ofJune, 1881, /
Law at nv residence in this city surround
ed by my friends and waiting Tor death.
Heaven only knows the agony then
endured, for words can never describe IL.
And yet, if few years previous any one
had told me that / was to be brought SO
low, and by SO terrible disease, L should
have scoffed at the idea. L had always
been uncommonly strong and healthy,
and weighed over 200 pounds, and hard-
w knew, in my own experience, whaI
pain or sickness were. Very many peo-
pie who will read this statement realize
at times that they are unusually uIed
and cannot account fol 1t. Ihey 1eel
dull pains IN various parts OF the BODY
and do not understand it. Or they are
exceedingly hungry one day and entirely
without appetite the next. Ihls was
lust the way | felt when the relentless
maladv which had fastened itself upon
me first began. Still | thought nothing
of it; that probably l had taken 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, paid little attention to
it. Then my stomach would get out of
order and my food often failed to digest,
causing at times great inconvenience.
Yet. even as a physician, l did not think
that these things meant anything serl-
GUS. / fancied was suffering from ma
laria and doctored myself accordingly.
But got no better. l next noticed a
peculiar color and odor about the fluids
IL was passing-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
sediment settled. And yet l did not
realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing
these symptoms continually, L finally
became accustomed to them, and my
suspicion was wholly disarmed by the
fact that / had no pain in the affected
organs or in the vicinity. Why Should
have been 50 blind l cannot understand.
consulted the best medical skill In
the land. l visited all the famed min
eral springs in America and Travelled
from Maine to California. Still / grew
worse. No two physicians agreed as 10
nv malady. One said l was troubled
with spinal irritation; another, eyspep-
STA; another, heart disease; another, gen.
eral debility; apothPr, congestion of the
base of the brain; and so on through a
long list of common diseases, the symp-
toms of many of which really had. In
this way several years passed, during
which time was steadily growing worse
Nv condition had really become pitla'
Bile. The slight symptoms | at first eX-
perienced were developed into terrible
and constant disorders. Nv weight had
been reduced FROM 207 to $50 pounds
Ny life was burden to myself and
friends. could retain no food on my
stomach, and lived wholly by injections
was living mass of pain. My pulse
was uncomfortable. In my agony fire.
quently fell to the floor and clutched
the carpet, and prayed for death. Nor
shine had little or no effect in deadenine
the pain. For six days and nights haC
the ath.premonitory 'hiccougns con
stantly. Ny water was filled with tube
casts and albumen. | was struggling
with Brigbt's Disease Ct the kidneys ii
its last stages!
While suffering thus / received cal
from my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Foote, a
; that time rector of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church. of this city. l felt that it wa
|. our last interview but in the course o
conversation DR.. Foote, detailed to mt
the many remarkable cures of cases like
, my own which had come under his OBJ
servation, by means of remedy, which
he urged me to try. AS practicing phys
ician and graduate of the schools
derided the idea of any medicine out
: side the regular channels being in thu
, least beneficial. So solicitous, however
,, was DR.. Foote, that finally promised
! would waive my prejudice. l began it,
: use on the first day of June, 1881, anC
: took it according to directions. At frs
: it sickened me; but this thought was {
! good sign for one in my debilitated con
. dition. i continued TO take it; the sick
eniDg sensation departed and l wa
|, finally able to retain food upon m,
y stomach In few days / noticed a &c
cided change for the better, as also di,
my wife and friends. My hiccougl
ceased and experienced less pain thar
IS formerly. | was so rejoiced al this i'm
n proved condition that, upon what 1 ha,
v believed but few days before was m
: dying bed, i vowed, in the presence G
y my family and friends, should recove
s. would both publicly and privatel
% make known this remedy for the good c
,r humanity, wherever, and whenever
had an opportunity, and this letter is i
~ fulfillment of that vow. My improve
ment was constant from that time, an
,e in less than three months l had game
rs 20 pounds in flesh, became entirely FIRE
err from pain and believe owe my lii
and present condition wholly to Warner
ce Safe Cure, the remedy which used.
81 Since my recovery have thorough
re-investigated the subject of kidney di
nc fculties and Bright's disease, and I'll
ne truths developed are astounding.
tie therefore state, deliberately. and as
ne physician. that believe more than on
ee nalf the deaths which occur in AmeriC
are caused by Bright's disease of Ii
lie kidneys. This may sound like a ras
~ statement, but am prepared TO full
IA verify it. Bright's disease has no di
tinctive symptoms Of its own. (indeed,
often develops without any pain wha
ever in the kidneys or their vicinity
hy but has the symptoms of nearly eve
other common complaint. Hundred
people die daily, whose burials are a
M thorlzed by a physicians certificate
occurring from Heart Disease" ZAP