Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-02-05
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE,
Remarkable Statement OF Personal
Danger and Providential Escape.

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remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves If we do not lay it before our
readers, even though its length would
ordinarily preclude its admission TO our
limited space.
To the Editor Rochester(N. Y, Democrat.
SIR. On the first day of June, 1881,
l lay at my residence in this city sur
rounded by my friends and waiting for
death. Heaven only knows the agony
then endured, for words can never de-
scribe 1t. And yet, II few years pre-
vious any one had told me that / was 10
be brought so low, and by SO terrible a
disease, should have scotfed at the
idea. had always been uncommonly
strong and healthy and weighed over
| 200 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 pains in various parts
of the body and do not understand it.
Or they are exceedingly hungry
one day and entirely without APP
petite the next. This was Just the
way felt when the relentless
itself upon me first began. Still
thought nothing of it; that probably l
had taken cold which would soon
pass away. Shortly after this ! 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, /
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 physician, / did not think that
these things meant anything serious.
fapcied l was suffering from malaria
and doctored myself accordingly. But
l got no better. l next noticed pecu-
liar color and odor about the fluids |
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 yet l did not
realize my danger, for indeed seeing
these symptoms continually, L finally
became accustomed to them, and my
suspicion was wholly disarmed by the
fact that had no pain in the affected
organs or in their vicinity. Why l
should have been so blind l cannot un-
derstand.
l consulted the best medical skill in
the land. l visited all the famed min
eral springs in America and travelled
from Maine to California. Still
grew worse. No two pbysi-
clans agreed as to my malady.
One said was troubled with spinal ir-
ritation, another, dyspepsia; another.
heart disease; another, general debility; |
another congestion of the base OF the |
brain; and so on through long list of
common diseases, the symptoms OF |
many of which i really had. In this
way several years passed, during which |
time was steadily growing worse. My |
condition had really become pitiable.
The slight symptoms l at first expert.
enced were developed into terrible and
constant disorders. My weight had been
reduced from POI to 100 pounds. My
life was burden to myself and friends.
l could retain no food on my stomach,
and lived wholly by injections. was
living mass of pain. My pulse was IN
control able. In my agony frequently
fell TO the floor and clutched the carpet,
and prayed for death. Morphine had
little or no effect in deadening the pain.
For six days and nights had the death
hiccoughs constantly. My
water was filled with tube-casts and
albumen. l was struggling with Bright's
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 of ST. Paul's Episcopal
Church, of this city. l felt that it was
our last interview, but in the course of
DR.. Foote detailed to me
the many remarkable cures OF cases like
my own which had come under his OBJ
servation, by means of aremedy, which
he urged me to try. As u practicing ply
stefan and graduate of the schools l
derided the idea of any medicine outside
he regular channels being in the least
So solicitous, however, was
DIR. Foote, that finally promised /
would waive my prejudice. l began
its use on the first day of June, 1881,
and took ii according to directions. At
first it sickened me; but this thought
was good sign for one in my debili-
tated condition. l continued to take
it; the sickening sensation departed
and was finally able to retain food
upon my stomach. In few days
noticed decided cnange for the bet
ter, as also did my wife and friends.
NV hiccoughD ceased and experienced
less pain than formerly. was SO re-
iolced at this improved condition that,
upon what had believed but a few
days before was my dying bed, J 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
whenever l had an opportunity. and
this letter is In fulflment of that VOW.
Nv improvement was constant from
that time, and in less than three months
l had gained &c pounds in flesh, become
entirely free from pain, and believe
owe my life and present condition
wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the REM
edy which used.
Since my recovery have thoroughly
re-investigated the subject of kidney
difficulties and Biight's disease, and
the truths developed are astounding.
therefore state, deliberately, and as a
physician, that believe more than one
halt of the deaths which occur tn America
are caused by Bright's disease of
the kidneys. This may sound like a
rash statement, but l am prepared to
fully verify it. Bright's disease has
no distinctive symptoms OF its own,
(indeed, il often develops without any
pain whatever in the Kidneys or THAR
yicinity,) but has the symptoms of near
ly every other common complaint. Hun
drodo ~ ,,aopla d;a daily whoaa huriaIs |