The Penn's Grove record., 1885-02-07
4 TnR1LLlNG EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable statement ~ Personal Danger
aud -Provsdentlaf Escape.

The following story-whieh is at
tracing vide attention from the press
is so remarkable that we cannot excuse
ourselves it we do not lay it before oul
readers, Y though its length would
ordinarily preclude its admission to oui
limited space.
To the Ed tor Rochester C. / ADemocra:
SIR On the FIRST day OF June, 1881,
l lay at ny residence In this city sur
rounded by my friends and waiting fol
death. Heaven only Knows the agony
1 then endured, for words can never
describe it. Aod yet, If a few yesrs
previous any one mad told me that
was to 10 brought 30 low, and by so
terrible a disease, / should have scoffed
at the idea. 1 had always been uncom.
monty strong and healthy, and weighed
over 200 pounds and hardly knew, in
my own experience, what pain or sick
ness 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 body and do not
understand it. Or they are exceedingly
hungry one day and entirely without
appetite the next. This was Just the
way l felt when the relentless malsdy
which had fastened itself upon me first
began. Still L thought moth ing Of 1t;
that probably L had taken a cold which
would soon pass away. Shortly after
this l 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, l paid little attention to
1t. Then my stomach would get ont 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 fancted / was suffering from
malaria and doctored myself accord
ingly. But L got no better. | next
noticed a peculiar color and odor about
the fluids | was passing-slso that there
We're large quantities one day and very
little the next, and that a persistent
froth and scum appeared upon the sur
face, and a sediment settled. And yet
/ did not reallze my danger, for, in
deed, seeing these symptoms continually
l finally became accustomed to them,
and my suspicion wa wholly disarmed
by the fact that / had no pain in the
affected organs or in their vicinity.
Why | should have been so blind l can.
not understand.
L consulted the best medical skill
in the land. / visited all the famed
mineral springs in America, and tray
eled from Maine to California. Still
| grew worse. No two physicians
agreed as to my malady. One said l
was troubled with spinal irritation; an
other, dyspepsia; another, heart dis
ease; another, general debility; another,
congestion OF the base of the 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 l was
steadily growing worse. My condition
had really become pitiable. The slight
1 at first experienced were
developed into terrible and constant
disorders. Ny weight had been re-
duced from 207 TO 100 pounds. Ny
life was a burden to myself and friends.
1 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 / FREE
quently fell to the floor and clutched
the carpet, and prayed for death, Nor
phIne had little or no effect in ~desdenlng
the pain. For six days and nights l
had the death-premonitory hiccoughs
constantly. My water was filled with
tube-casts and albumen. l was strug-
Cling with Bright's Disease of the
kidneys in its last stagesi
While suffering thus 1 received a call
from my pastor, the Rev. DIR. Foote, st
that time rector of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, of this city. 1 felt that it was
our last interview, but in the course OF
conversation DR.. Foote detailed to me
the many remarkable cures of cases
like my own which had come under his
observation, by means of a remedy,
which he urged me TO try. AS a prac-
ticing physician and a graduate OF the
schools, / derided the idea of any medi-
cine outside the regular channels being
in the least beneficial. 50 solioitous,
however, was DIR. Foote, that l finally
promised / would waive my prejudice
/ began its use on the first day of June,
1881, and took it according to directions.
AT first it sickened me; but this / thought
was q good sign for one in my debilItated
condition. l continued to take it; the
sickenIng sensation departed and L was
finally able to retain food upon my
stomach. In a few days l noticed a
decided change for the better, as also
did my wife and friends. My hiccoughs
ceased and I experienced less pain than
formerly. l was SO rejoiced at this
improved condition that, upon what l
had believed but a few days before was
my dying bed. l vowed, in the presence
OF my family and friends, should |
recover / would both publicly and
privately make known this remedy for
the good of humanity, wherever and
this letter is in fulfilment of that VOW.
NY improvement was constant from
that time, and in less than three months
/ had gained 26 pounds in flesh, became
entirely free from pain, and L believe l
owe my life and present condition
wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the rem
edy which l used.
Since my recovery 1 have thoroughly
re-investigated the subject OF kidney
diff .ulties and Bright's disease, and
the truths developed are astounding.
/ therefore state, deliberately, and as
a physician, that l believe than
one-heT of the deaths whlch occur n
Amertea are caused 6y Br3ght's das-
ease of the kidneys. This may sound
like a rash statement, but l am pre-
pared to fully verify it. Bright's dis
ease has no distinctive symptoms OF his
own, Indeed, 1t often develops without
any pain whatever in the kidneys r
their vicinity. but has the symptoms
OF nearly every other common COM
plant. Hundreds of people die daily.
whose burlals are author zsd by q ply
~slcian's certificate Ss occurring from
s.Heart Disease" "Apoplexy." par.
alysis," 'sSpinal Complaint, "Rheuma-
tism," Pneumonia. and other COM
mon complaints. when in reality it Is
from Bright's disease of the kidneys.
Few physicians. and fewer people, re-
aIlze the extent OF this disease or its
dangerous and insidioas nsture. 1t
steals into the system like a thief,