Arizona silver belt., 1885-03-07
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Remarkable Statement Of Personal Ranger and I'rOvtdentIal Escape.

The following storY-wbieh is at
 traeting wide attention from the press
 is 80 remarkable that we cannot ex-
 euse ourselves if we do not lay it be.
 fore our readers, even though it's
 length would ordinarily preclude its
 admission to our limited space,
 To the Editor Rochester (N, Y)
 Democrats Sir, On the first day ef
 June, 1881, lay at my residence in
 this city surrounded by my friends
 and waiting for death, Heaven only
 knows the agony 1 then endured, for
 words can never describe It. And yet,
 if few years previously any one had
 told me that I was to be brought Sd
 low, and by so terrible disease, l
 slsould have scofied at the idea. l had
 always been uneommonly strong and
 healthy, and weighed over POO pounds
 and hardly knew, in my own expo
 rience, 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
 understand it. Or they are exceed
 ingly hungry one day and entirely without appetite the next. This wts just the way felt when the relentless
 malady winch had fastened itself upon me first began. Still l thought ncth- ing of iti that probably I had taken a cold winch would soon pass away, Shortly after tkis l noticed heavy, and at times neuralgia, pain in one side of my head, but as it would come one day and be gone the next 1 paid little attention to it. Theu my stom- ach would got out of order and my food often failed to digest, causing at
 times great inconvenience. Yet, even as a physician, 1 did not think that these things meant anything serious l fancied l was suffering from malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But
 l got no better, l next noticed a pe- culiar color about the fluids I was. passing also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next and that persistent froth and scum appeared upon the surface, and a sediment settled And yaG i did not realize my danger for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually I finally became accustomed to them, and my suspicion vas wholly disarmed by the faet that had no pain in the afIected' organs or in their vicinity Why K shouId have been 50 blind I cannot 
 l consulted the best msdlcal skill in the land. l vlslted all the famed min eral springs in America and travelled from Maine to California. Still I grew worse, Notwo physicians agreed as to my malady One said .waV troubled with splnal irritation; an, other, dyspepsia; another, heart dis. ease; another, general debility; am other congestion of the base of tie brain; and so on through a long list of common diseases, the symptoms of many of which l really had. In this way several years passed, during which time was steadily growing worse. My condition had really become pitia- ble. The slight symptoms I at first experienced were developed into ter. 1 rible and constant disorders. My weight had been reduced from POT to 1 l3O pounds Ny life was a burden to mysaIf and friends l could retain no food on my stomach, and lived wholly i by injections. was q living mass of 1 pain. My pulse was uncomfortable. 1 In my agony frequently fell to the floor and clutched the carpet, and ! prayed for death. Morphine had ht- tie or no eftct in deadening the pain. i For six days and night had the death premonitory hiccoughs constantly My water was filled with tube-casts and albumen. was struggling with Brights Disease of the kidneys in its last stages!
 While suffering thus l received call from my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, at that time rector ofSt. Pauls Episcopal Church, of this city. l felt that it was our last interview, but in the course of eol versation .Dr. Foote { detailed to me the many remarkable cures of cases like my own which had come under his observation, by means of remedy, which he urged me 10 1 try. As practieing physician and graduate of the schools, 1 derided the idea of any medicine outside the reg alar channels belng in the least bene- fcial. So solioitous, however, was Dr. ] Foote, that l finally promised l would waive uy'preiudiee. ] began it's use on the first day of June, 1881, and took it according to directions. ALI first it sickened me but this I thoughlE was good sign for one in my debilt lated condition. l continued to take it; the siekeniug sensation departed and l was finally able to retain food upon my stomach In few days \