Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-11
4 THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement Of Personal Danger
and ProvIdentIaI Escape.

tracing wide attention IRON the press
is so remarkable that we cannot excuse
ourselves if we do not lay it before our
readers, even though its length would
ordinarily preclude its admission to our
limited space.
Tc the Editor Rochester q. ~ Democrat:
SIR.-On the first day OF June, 1881,
lay at my residence IN this city sur
rounded by my friends and waiting for
death. Heaven only knows the agony
L then endured, for words eau never
describe it. Add yet, If a lew years
previous any one had told me that i
was to be brought so low, and by SO
terrible disease, should have scoffed
at the idea. | had always been uncom-
monty strong and healthy, and weighed
over 200 pounds and hardly knew, IN
my own experience, what pam 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 1t. They feel dull pains
Ill 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 lust the
way felt when the relentless malady
which had fastened itself upon me first
began. Still L thought moth ing of IT.;
that probably had taken a 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
1t. Then my stomach would get out OF
order and my food often failed TO digest,
causing at times great Inconvenience
Yet, even as a physician, did not
think that these things meant anything
serious. L fancied L was suffering from
malaria and doctored myself accord
ingly. But L got no better. i next
noticed a peculiar color and Odor about
the fluids Twas passing-also that there
were large quantities one day and very
little the next, and that a persistent
froth and scum appeared upon the sur
face, and sediment settled. And yet
1 did not reallze my danger, for, in
deed, seeing these symptoms continually
l finally became accustomed to them,
and my suspicion was wholly disarmed
by the fact that l had no pain in the
affected organs or in their vicinity.
Why / should have been so blind / can
not understand.
l consulted the best medical skill
in the land. l visited ali the famed
mineral springs IN America, and trav-
eled from Maine to California. Still
L grew worse. No two physicians
agreed as to my malady. One said
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 long list of common
diseases, the symptoms OF many Of
which really had. In this way several
years passed, during which time l was
steadily growing worse. My condition
had really become pitIable. The slight
symptoms at first experienced were
developed into terrible and constant
disorders. My weight had been re-
duced from 207 10 $50 pounds. Ny
life was burden to myself and friends.
L could retain no food on my stomach,
and lived wholly by injections. 1 was
living mass of pain. My pulse was
uncontrollabie. In my agony l fre-
quently fell to the floor and clutched
the carpet, and prayed for death, Nor
phIne had httle or no effect in deadenlng
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 stagesl
While suffering thus 1 received ca Il
from my pastor, the Rev. DIR. Foote, at
that time rector of st. PAul's Episcopal
Church, of tins city. 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 prac-
ticing physician and graduate OF the
schools, derided the idea of any medi-
cine outside the regular channels being
in the least beneficial. So solicitous,
however, was DIR. Foote, that finally
promised L would waive my prejudice
l began its use on the first day of June,
1881, and took it according TO directions.
AT first II sickened me; but this | thought
was a good sign for one IN my debilItaied
condition. l continued to take 1t; 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 / experienced less pain than
formerly. l was so reioiced al this
improved condition that, upon what i
had believed but few days before was
my dying bed. vowed, III the presence
of my family and friends, should
recover L would both publicly ana
privately make known this remedy for
the good of humanity, wherever and
whenever l had an opportunity, and
this letter Is in fuIfilmSnt of that vow.
NV improvement was constant from
that time, ami in less than three months
l had gained 26 pounds in flesh, became
entirely free from pain, and | believe
owe my life and present condition
wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the rem
edy which used.
Io!Ice NY recovery nave LuoIcuShll
re-investigated the subject of kidney
diff ,ulties and Bright's disease, and
the truths developed are astounding.
1 therefore state, deliberately, and as
a physician, tnat 1 believe more than
oHe-hnlf Of the deaths tOhtch occur an
ABlerlcG are caused By Br2ght'S diS-
ease Of the kidHeys. This may sound
like a rash statement, but | am pre-
pared to fully verify 1t. Bright's dis
ease hrs no distinctive symptoms of lis
own, (indeed, 1t often develops without
any pain Whatever in the kidneys or
their vicinity. but has the symptoms
of nearly every other common COM
plant. Hundreds of people die daily,
whose burials are authorized by ply
slcian's certificate rs occurring from
Heart Disease" ''Apoplexy." "Par-
alysis, ""Spinal 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-
aIize the extent of this disease or its
dangerous and lnsidiods nsture. 1t
steals into the system like a thief,
manifests its presence if at all by the