The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-27

Remarkable Statement of Personal Dan
ger and Providential Escape.

wide attention from the press-is so remark
able that we can not excuse ourselves If we
DO not lay II before our readers. even though
its length would ordinarily preclude it's ad-
mission to our limited space.
To the Editor Rochester IN. W Democrat:
SIR-On the first day OF June, 1881, / lay
at my residence In this city surrounded by
my friends and waiting Cor death. Heaven
only knows the agony i then endured, for
words can never describe it. And yet, If
few years previous any one had told me that
was TO be brought so Low, and by so ter
rible disease. 1 should have scoffed at the
idea. L had always been uncommoaly
strong and healthy, and weighed over 200
pounds, and hardly knew, in my own ex-
perience, what pain or sickness we're. Very
many people who will read this statement
reslizs 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 exceed
| iDgly hungry one day and entirely with
out appetite the next. This was Just
| the way j felt when the re-
| ID less mslady, which had fastened
itself upon me first began. Still thought
nothing Ct il; that probsbly had taken a
1
| after this | noticed heavy and at times
neuislgic, pain IN one side of my head, bat
| as u would come one day and be gone the
next. paid little attention to IT, Then my
| stomsoh would get cut of order and my food
| often failed TO digest, causing at times great
Inconvenience: Yet, even as q physician,
| did not think that these things meant any
thing serious. fsncied was suffering from
malaria and Goctored myself accordingly.
| Bot got 10 better. next noticed peca-
liar color and odor about the huids I was
| psssing-also that there were large QUAINT
ties one dsy and very little the next. aud
| that PERSISTENT frotb and scum appeared
/ upon the surface, and sediment settled.
! And yet did not realize my danger for
| il deed, seeing these symptoms continually,
! | finally became accustomed to them, and
nv suspicion WAS wholly disarmed by the
fact that l had no pain in the digestive
| organs or In their vicinity. Why l should
| have been so blind l can not understand,
] consulted the best medical skill 10 tie
| lard. l visited all the famed mineral
! springs in America and travelled from Maine
to California. Still grew worse. No two
| physicians sgre ed as to my mslady. One
said was troubled with spinal irritation;
| another, dyspepsia; smother, heart disease;
| smother, general debility another conges.
ton of the base of the brain; aud so on
through a long lst of common diseases. the
| symptoms of many OF which / really had.
I which time ] was steadily growing worse.
| My condition had really become ptiable
! The slight symptoms | at first experienced
were developed into terrible aud constant
/ disorders. My weight had been reduced
! from 207 to $50 pounds. My life was q bur-
/ den to myself and friends. | could retsin
no food on my stomach, and lived wholly
/ By injections. ! was a living mass of pain.
Ny pulse was uncon troilsble. In my agony
I / frequently fell to the floor and clutcned
: the carpet, aud prayed for death. Morphine
\ had little or no effect in deadening the pain.
For six consecutive days aud nights | had
the death-premonitory hiccougbs constantly.
/ My water was filed with tnbs-casts and al
bumen. L was struggling with Bright's Dis
ease of the Kidneys in its last stages
While suffering thus received call from
| nv pastor. Rev. DR.. Foote at that time rec
tor o. St Psups Episcopal Church, of this
! city. ] felt that il was our last interview,
| bal = the ccurse OF conversation Dr.. Foote
detailed 10 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 practicing
| physician aud graduate of the schools, !
derided the idea OF any medicine outside the
regular channels being in the least beneficial.
| So solicitous, however, was DR.. Foote, that
! finally promised would waive my prejudice.
l begsn its use on the first day OF June. 1881,
and took it according TO directions. At tirst
| it sickened me; but this l thought was q
| good sign for one IN my .debllitated con-
| dition. 1 continued to take it; the sicken-
! ing sensation departed and / was finally
| able to retain food upon my stomach. In
| few days noticed a decided change for the
/ better, as also did my wife aud friends. Ny
| hiccoughs ceased and l experienced less pain
| than formerly. l was go rejoced at this i'm
proved condition that, up0n what had be
I lieved but few days before was my dying
| bed, vowed, In the presence OF my family
| and friends, should l recover l woHld both
| publicly and privately make known this
| remedy for the good OF humanity, wherever
| and whenever l bad an opportunity and
| this letter is in fulhllment OF that vow. My
! improvement wss constant from that time,
/ and in less than three months had gained
J Lwenty-six pounds in flesh, became entirely
free from pain and | believe l owe my life
! and present condition wholly to Warmers
! safe Cure the remedy which used.
Since my recovery l have thoroughly re
J II vestigsted the subject Of kidney difficult
! ties and Bright's sease, aud the truths de-
veloped are astounding. l therefore state.
| deliberately, and as a physician, that !
believe more than enc half the deaths which
o"cur in America are caused By Brights
disease OF the kidneys This may sodnd
like rash statement, but | am prepared to
| fully verify it. Brighfs disease has no dis
I'll ctIve symptoms OF its own, (indeed, it
| often develops without any pain whatever
| in the kidneys or their vicinity bat has the
| symptoms OF nearly every OLner common
complaint, Hundreds of people die daily,
whose burials are authorized by q physicians
! certificate as occurring from Heart Disease"
/ "Apoplexy," Paralysis" Spinal Com
plant" rheumatism" Pneumonia"
and other common complaints, when
in reality il is from Brights disease of
the kidneys. Few physicians and fewer peo-
! pie realize the extent of this disease or It's
| dangerous and insidious nature. 1t steals
into the system like thief, msnifests its
presence If at all by the commonest symp.
/ toms, and fastens itself upon the constitu-
| ton before the victim is aware OF IL. It is
| nearly as hereditary as consum ption, quite
a. common and fully as fatal. Entire fam
| lilies, iDheIiting il from their ancestors, have
/ died vet none of the number knew or real
lied the mysterious power which was remov-