Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-05
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement or Personal
Danger and ProvIdenriaI Escape.


The following story-which is at.
tracing wide attention from the press
is SO remarkable that we cannot ex-
GU ourselves if we do not lay it before
our readers, even though it's length
woul ordinarily preclude It's admission
to ur limited space.
To the Editor Rochester IN W Demo
crdt:
SIR,-On the first day eff June, 1881.
1 lay at my residence in this city sur
| rounded by my friends and waiting for
| death. Heaven only kaows the agony
then endured, for words can never de-
scribe it. And yet, if few years pre-
vlous any one had told me that was to
be brought SO low, and by so terrible a
| elsease, l should have scoffed at the
idea. | had always been uncommonly
strong and healthy, and weighed over
2Go 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 pans in various
parts or the body and do not under
stand 1t. Or they are exceedingly hun
cry one day and entirely without ap.
petite the next. This was just the way
L telt When the relentless malady which
had fastened Itself upon me fist began
Still L thought nothing of l.; that prob
Idly had taken a cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly aft.r this ]
noticed heavy, and at times neuralgic.
pain IN one side of MY head, but as it
would come enc 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.
ven as physician, did not think that
theae things meant anything serious.
f. ncied I was suffering from malaris.
an doctored myself accordingly. But
got no better. [ next noticed a pe-
cull II color and odor about the fluids |
was passjng-als9 thai there were large
quantities one day and very little the
next, and that a perei3tant froth and
cum appeared upon the surface, and d
edlment settled. And yet did not rea-
NE my danger, for, indee !, seeing those
symptoms continually, finally became
accustomed &c them, and my suspici) IN
W. wholly disarmed by the fact that |
had no pain in the affected organs or in
heir vicinity. Why [ should have beer
o b ind / cannot understand
l consulted the best medical skill 10
the land. / visited all the famed min
eral springs III America and Travelled
from Maine to California. Still grew
worse. No two physicians agreed as to
my malady. One said [ was troubled
with spinal irritation; another, dyspep-
STA; another heart disease; another, gen
eral debility; another congestion of the
base of the brain; and SO on through a
long list of common diseases, the symp-
Of Of T L
In this way several years passed, during
which time I was steadily growing
worse. My condition had really become
pitiable. The slight symptoms at first
experienced were developed into ter
rible and constant disorders. My weight
had been reduced from 207 to 100
pounds. Ny life was burden to my
self and friends. could retain no food
on nay stomach, and lived wholly by in
iectiOns. [ was living mass of pain.
My pulse was uncomfortable. In my
agony [ frequeatly fell to the fl ,or and
clutched the carpet, and prayed for
death. Morphine had little or no effect
IN deadening the paia. For six days and
nights had the eath-premonitory hic-
coughs constantly. My water was filled
with tube casts ana albumen. I was
| struggling with Bright's Disease of tbs
| kidneys in its last stages!
While suffering thus received call
from my pastor, the Rev. DR.. FoOte, at
| that time rector Of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, OF this city. [ felt that it was
| our last interview, hut in the course of
conversation DR.. FoOte detailed to me
the many remarkable cures Of cases like
my own whil h had come under his OBJ
rvati0n, by means of a rem dy. which
he ur ted me to try. AS O. l racticing
MUSICIAN and graduate of the schools.
derl led the idea of any medicine out
slue the regular channels being in the
least be niffcial. So soiicitous, however,
was Dr.. Foote, that finally promised
would waive my prejudice. [ he9aa It's
use on the frs day of June, 1881, and
took 1t accor ding to directions. AT first
t sckened me-; kut this / thought was
a goo sign FIR one in my debilitat"d
cond ton. I continued to take it; the
slckening sen&ation depal t 4d and [ was
finally able to retain food upon my
st mach In a few Gays [ noticed g.
"ecidt d oh 4nge FOR the better, as also
d nav wife and friends. My hiccoug his
ceased and experience less pain than
formerly. ] was so rejOiced at this i'm
prov d condition that, upon what l had
believed but a few days before was my
dying b.a I vowed, in the presence OF
my family and fri ms, should Trecover
] would both publicly and privately
make known this remedy for the good
Of humanity, wherever and whenever
hal an oppor' unity. and this letter is Ia
III fillment of that VOW. My improve
m+rt was constant from that time, and
in less than three months [ had gained
26 pounds in flesh, became entirely free
from pain and believe I owe my life
and present condition wholly 10 War
ner's Safe Cure, the remedy which I
Used.
Since my recovery have thoroughly
re-investigated the subject of kidney
.ifficulties and Bright's disease, and the
truths developed are astounding. I
therefore stare. deliberately. and as a
Thy IN, tn It believe more than one
halt the deaths aChich occur i1l America
are caused by Brjghts deSease Of the
kidneys. This may sound like rash
stat-ment, but I ana prepared tc fully
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