The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-05
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement of Personal Dan.
ger and ProvidentiaI Escape.

Remarkable Statement OF personal DAM
ger and ProvidentiaI Escape.
The following ~story-which is attracting
wide attention from the press-is so re-
markable that we can not excuse ourselves
if we do not lay it before our readers, even
though its length would ordinarily pre-
clude its admission to our limited space.
To the Editor Rochester IN. " Democrat:
SIR-On the first day of June, 1881, 1 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 it. And yet, If
a few years previous any one had told me
that l was to be brought SO low, and by so
terrible a disease, 1 should have scoffed at
the idea. l had always been uncommonly
strong and healthy, and weighed over 200
pounds and hardly knew, in my own ex-
perience, what pain or sickness were. |
Very many people who will read this
statement realize at times that they are
unusually tired and can not account for it. |
They feel dull pains in various parts of the
are exceedingly hungry one day and en- !
tirely without appetite the next. This was
just the way l felt when the relentless
malady which had fastened itself upon me
first began. Still 1 thought nothing of it.;
hat probably | had taken a cold which
would soon pass away. Shortly after this
I noticed a heavy, and at times neuralgia,
pain in one side of my head, but as it
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l 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 serious. l fancied
/ was suffering from malaria and doctored
myself accordingly. But l got no better.
l next noticed a peculiar color and odor
about the fluids L was p~asSing-also that
t~heresvere 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 1 did not
these symptoms continually, 1 finally be-
came accustomed to them, and my sus-
picion was wholly disarmed by the fact
that l had no pain in the affected organs
or in their vicinity. Why l should have
been so blind l can not understand.
l consulted the best medical skill in the
land. l visited all the famed mineral
springs in America and travelled from
No two physicians agreed as to my mala-
dy. One said 1 was troubled with spinal
irritation: another, dyspepsia; another,
heart-disease; another. general debility;
brain; and so on through a long list of
common diseases, the symptoms of many
of which l really had. In this way sever
al years passed, during which time I was
had really become pitiable. The slight
: symptoms / at first experienced were de-
veloped into terrible and constant disor-
ders. My weight had been reduced from
: to myself and friends. l could retain no
: food on my stomach, and lived wholly by
injections. l was a living mass of pain.
My pulse was uncomfortable. In my agony
l frequently fell to the floor and clutched
the carpet. and prayed for death. Nor
. phine had little or no effect in deadening
, the pain. For six days and nights I had
the death-premonitory hiccoughs constant
s ly Mn Huafar xx-oc H1lo1 with hit oo,{s
G and albumen. l was struggling with
. Bright's Disease of the kidneys in its last
+ stages!
While suffering thus l received a call
4 from my pastor, Rev. DR.. Foote, at that
u time rector of st. Paul's Episcopal Church,
of this city. 1 felt that it was our last in
terview, but.in the course of conversation
DR.. Foote detailed to me the many remark.
able cures of cases like my own which hao
n come under his observation, by means of G
s remedy which he urged me to try. As 6
practicing physician and a graduate of the
schools, 1 derided the idea of any medicine
i outside the regular channels being in thu
q least beneficial. So solicitous, however
was DIR. Foote, that I finally promised
n would waive my prejudice. / began it
n use the first day Of June, 1881, and took
according to directions. At first it sickenet
, me; but this l thought was a good sign TO
h one in my debilitated condition. 1 contin
ued to take it; the sickening sensation de
r parted and I was finally able to retail
!. food upon my stomach. In a few days
l. noticed a decided change for the better, a
IS also did my wife and friends. My hic
coughs ceased and I experienced less pail
than formerly. 1 was so rejoiced at thi
improved condition that, upon what l be
lieved but a few lays before was my dyipi
l. bed, 1 vowed, in the presence of my famil,
lie and friends, should 1 recover 1 would bot
l. publicly and privately make known thi
remedy for the good of humanity
"a wherever and whenever 1 had an oppor
~ trinity and this letter * in fJiHllmauf q
u that vow. My Improvement was constan
re from that time, and in less than thre
n months had gained twenty-six pounds i
= flesh, became entirely free from pain, an
:, l believe l owe my life and present condi
10 ton wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, whic
II remedy l used.
a Since my recovery I have thoroughly re
ID investigated the subject of kidney Difficult
~ ties and Blignt's disease, and the truth
~ developed are astounding. l therefor
" state, deliberately, and as a. physician
lie that | believe more than ORe-hdJ the dealt
Sc I B,5eht,s ee Gixsos n o1 4 me 79d0s are f Tbis ma .
n sound like a rash statement, but l am PR
u pared to fully verify it. Bright's diseas
e. has no distinctive symptoms of its own (I
is deed, it often develops without any pal
IL whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity
s, but has the symptoms of nearly ever
other common complaint. Hundreds
u people die daily, whose burials are author
lied by a physicians certificate as occu
IlnS lTOm I1GdTG DlSedSe,' ApOpteAy
Paralysis" Spinal Complaint s'Rhet
ly matism, - =" Pneumonia.'' and other con
~ mon complaints, when in reality it is fro
L. Bright's disease of the kidneys. Few ply
lie %sicians, and fewer people, realize the e1
lie tent of this disease or it's dangerous and il
re sidious nature. 1t steals into the syste
of like a thief, manifests its presence if at q
y by the commonest symptoms and faster
j. itself upon the constitution before the VII
IN tim is aware of it. 1t is nearly as hered
of tary as consumption, quite as common an
Id fully as fetal. Entire families, inheritin
it from their ancestors, have died, and y
none of the number knew or realized tt
Is mysterious power (which was remoyin
ne them. Instead of common symptoms
often shows none whatever, but bring
death suddenly, from commissions, APP
H. plexy or heart disease. AS one who hi
ny suffered, and knows by bitter eXperient
re whathe says, l implore everyone WI
ITS reads these words not to neglect the Sigh
ey est symptoms of kidney difficulty. Certai
!, agony and probable death will be the SUI
result of such neglect, and no one can a
ford to hazard such chances.
L am aware that such an unqualifie
wv statement as this, coming from me, know
as [ am throughout the entire land as
practitioner and lecturer, will arouse Il
d surprise and possible animosity of tt
ne medical profession and astonish all vii
ng whom l am acquainted, but l make tt
ut, foregoing statements based upon fac
nut which l am prepared to produce and trutl
:, which l can substantiate to the letter. II
~, welfare of those who may possibly be su
d: ferers such as l was, is an ample Undue
m ment for me to take the step l have, and
be l can successfully warn others from Il
m dangerous path in which l once walked,
"a am willing to endure all professional al
personal consequences.
J. B. HENION, NJ. D.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Dec. 30.
The sweetest thing in walking sticks
or
"HELLo!r we heard one man say to a