The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-28
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
remarkable Statement of Personal Da

4 Remarkable Statement of Personal Dam
ger and Provldential Escape.
The following story, which is attract
|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-
s'narily preclude its admission to our
limited space;
ITO the Editor Rochester, N. ", Democrat:
"a SIR-On the first day of June, 1881, 1
Day at my residence in this city sur
founded by my friends and waiting for
death. Heaven only knows the agony
n then endured, for words can never
Sdescribe it. And yet, few years pre-
ISious, if any one had told me that l was
to be brought so low, and by so terrible
81 disease, should have scofled at the
idea. had always been uncommonly
strong and healthy, and weighed over
Zoo pounds, and hardly knew,
fEin my own experience, what
.pain or sickness were. Very
many people who will read this state
ment realize at times that they are UNI
casually tired and cannot acco unit for it.
1tThey fe el dull pains IN various parts OF
The body and do not understand il. OF
and entirely without appetite the next
fThis was Just tho way | felt when the
.relentless malady which had fastened
itself upon me first began. Still
{ Thought nothing of it; that probably
had taken cold which would soon pass
away. Shortly after this / noticed &
,heavy, and at times neuralgia, pain II
one side of my head, but as II woulC
come one day and be gone tho next,
Hpaid little attention to it. Then my
stomach would get ont of order and my
food often failed to digest, causing a
times great Inconvenience. Yet, even a
physician, did not think that thes
things meant anything serious, fancie,
d was suffering from malarial ant
doctored myself accordingly. Blu
III got no better. l next no
ticed peculiar color and odor abou
the fluids was passing-also, that Their
twere large quantities one day and yer,
#tlittle tho next, and that persisten
roth and scum appeared upon the SUI
face, and sediment settled. And yet
did not realize my danger, for, indeed
seeing these symptoms continually,
fnally became accustomed to them, an
my suspicion was wholly disarmed b
1.-THE fact that had no pain in the ailecte
torgans or in their vicinity. Why
SHOULD have been so blind / cannot III
Understand,
consulted the best medical skill
the land. visited all the famed mil
oral springs in America, and travele
, from Maine to California. Still l gre
worse. No two physicians agreed as
my malady. One said ] was trouble
with spinal irration; another, dyspel
|. STA; another, heart disease; anothe
4 general debility; another congestion
the base OF the brain; and so on throuf
. a long list of common diseases, Il
symptoms of many of which ] real
4 had. In this way several years passe
. during which time / was steadily gro
|. ing worse. My condition had really b
y come pltiable. The slight symptoms
i at first experienced were developed in
terrible and constant disorders. n
weight had been reduced from 2O1 to
q n pounds. My life was a burden TO mys
Al and friends. could retain no food
s. my stomach, and lived wholly by init
Ne tons. was living mass of pain.
pulse was uncomfortable. In my ago
frequently fell to the floor and clutch
. the carpet, and prayed for death, Nj
phine had little or no effect in deadC
Ing tho pain. For six days and night
:, had the death-premonitory hiccoug
" constantly. My water was filed W
N tube-casts and albumen. | was STIR
= Cling with Bright's Disease Of the k
neys in its last stages.
While thus suffering, received a c
Isl from my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Foote,
~ that time rector of st. PauPs Episco
an church, of this city. felt that IL "
a. our last interview, but In the course
sls conversation DIR. Foote detailed to
N, tho many remarkable cures of cases l
ct. my own which had come under his
~ servation, by means of remedy, VIII
u he urged me TO try. AS a practio
- physician and n graduate OF the seho'
,Es derided the idea of any medicine Q
sui side the regular channels being in
ity, N least beneficial. So solicitous, hOwc'
rate was DR.. Footo, that / finally promise
iia, would waive my prejudice. l began
,oa. use on the first day of June, 1881,
mn took II according to directions. Az I
The II sickened me, but this, thought,
eau a good sign for one in my debilitt
me- Condition. 1 continued 20 take
h ne, the sickening sensation departed NJ
y" was finally able 10 retain food upon
- stomach. In few days noticed a
cided change for the better, as also
Ds my wife and friends. My hicoou
.eU NJ ceased, and experienced less pain
flfh formerly. / was so rejoiced at
per improved condition that, upon whi
for had believed but a few days before
bar my dying bed, / vowed, In the pres,
n So, OF my family and friends, should
V'S' cover, would both publicly and
vstely make known this remedy fol