Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-06
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE!
Remarkable Statement of Personal
Danger and Providential Escape.

Remarkable Statement of Personal
Danger and Providential Escape.
The following story, which is attracting
wide attention from the press, is so remark
able that we cannot excuse ourselves if we
do not lay it before our readers, even
though It's length would preclude its adj
mission to our limited space;
To the Editor Rochester " ~ Democrat
SIR-On the LIST day of June, 1881, | lay
at my residence in this city surrounded by
my friends and waiting for death. Heaven
only knows the agony then endured, for
words can never describe it. And vet if a
few years previous any one had told me
that l was to be brought so low, and by so
terrible disease, | should have Scotfed AT
the idea. l had always been uncommonly
strong and healthy, and weighed over POO
pounds and hardly knew. in my own expe-
rience. 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 exceed
ingly hungry one day and entirely without
appetite the next. This was Just the way
felt when the relentless malady which had
fastened itself upon me first began. Still |
thought nothing of it; that probably had
taken a cold which would soon pass away.
Shortly after this | noticed heavy, and at
times neuralgia, pain in one side of my
head. but rs it would come one day and be
gone the next. paid little attention To it.
Then my stomach would get ont of order
and my food often failed 10 digest causing
III. times great inconvenience. Yet, even rs
a physician, did not think that these
things meant anything serious. | iancied
was suffering from malaria and dOctored
myself accordingly. But | got no better.
| next noticed peculiar color and odor
about the fluids l was passing; also, that
there were large quantities one day and
very little the next, and that a persistent
froth and scum appeared upon the surface,
and a sediment settled. And vet | did not
realize my danger. For, Indeed seeing these
symptoms continually, finally became ac-
cuStomed to them, and my suspicion was
wholly disarmed by the fact that had no
pain in the affected organs or in their vi
entity. Why | should have been 50 blind
| cannot understand.
| consulted the best medical skill in the
land. | visited all the famed medical
springs III America, and travelled from
Maine 10 California. Still | grew worse
No two physicians agreed as To my maladv
one said | was troubled with spinal irrita-
ton; another, dyspepsia; another, heart
| disease; another, general debility another,
congestion OF the base of the brain: and so
on through a long liSS of common diseases
| the symptoms of which | really had. In
this way several years passed, during which
| time ] was steadily growing worse Nv
condition had really become pitiable. The
slight symptoms at first experienced were
developed into terrible and constant disor-
! ders. My weight had been reduced from
207 to 100 pounds. My life was a burden
| to myself and friends. | could retain no
! food on my stomach and lived wholly by
injections. was living mass of pain
| My pulse was uncomfortable In my agony
| frequently fell 10 the floor and clutched
! the carpet, and PRAYED for death. Nor
! phine had little or no effect in deadening
| the pain. For six days and nights had
| the death-premonitory hiccoughs constant
| ly. My water was filled with tubc-casts
and albumen. | 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. Pauls Episcopal Church.
of this city. | felt that it was our last in
! terYiew, but in the course of conversation
| DIR. Foote detailed to me the many remark
|
come under his observation. by means of 4
remedy, which he urged me to try. As Il
! practicng physician and graduate of the
| schools, derided the idea any medicine
| outside the regular channels being in the
| least beneficial So SOLICITORS. however
was DIR. FOOte, that | finally promised |
would waive my prejudice began its use
on the LIST day Of June. 1881, and took it
| according to directions At first it sickened
me; but this | thought was a good sign for
one in my debilitated condition. | con-
tlnued to take it; the Sickening sensation
| departed and was finally able to retain
food on my stomach. In a few DAYS no
ticed a decided change for the better. as also
| did my wife and friends Ny hiccoughs
ceased and | experienced less pain than for
merly. ! was so reioiced at this improved
condition that, upon what | had believed
but a few days before was my dying bed
vowed, Ill the presence of my family and
friends, should ! recover | would both pub
liciy ANA privately make known this rem
edy for the good of humanity wherever
and whenever | had an opportunity and
this letter is in fulhllmcnt Of that vow. Nv
improvement was constant from that time,
and in less than three months had gained
% p~unds in flesh, became entirely free
from pain and believe | owe my life and
present condition wholly to Warmers Safe
Cure, the remedy which | used.
Since my recovery have thoroughly re,
investigated the subject Of kidney difficult
ties and Brights disease and the truths de
veloped are astounding, | therefore state
deliberately, and as a physician. that | be-
lieve more than oae-half the deatbs phjcb oc-
car IN AncricG are caused By Brights disease
OF the Kidneys This may sound like rash
statement, but ! am prepared to fully verify
it. Bright's disease has no distinctive symp-