Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
JUST AS BAD AS PAINTED.
widespread Commotion Caused by
the Terrible Confession OF "a Physi-
Clan.


recently, from the Rochester, N. Y,
| Democrat and Chronicle, created des
Of comment here as it has elsewhere.
| Apparently it caused even more COM
motion in Rochester, as the following
| from the same paper shows:
DR.. j. b. Henion, who is well known
not only in Rochester, but in nearly
every part Of America, sent an extend
| ed article to this paper few days ago
| which was duly published, detailiEg
his remarkable experience and rescue
| from what seemed to be certain death.
| Ii would be impossible to enumerate
| the personal inquiries which have been
made at our office as TO the validity of
the article, but they have been so num-
ersus that further investigation of the
subject was deemed necessary.
| With this end in view a representa-
tive of this paper called upon DIR. Hen
| ion at his residence on Andrews street,
when the following conversation oc-
| Cured:
That article of yours, Dsctor, has
| created quite whirlwind. Are the
statements about the terrible condition
you were in, and the way you were
rescued, such as you can sustain?'
every one of them and many addi
ticRal ones. l was brought so low by
neglecting the first and most simple
symptoms. did not thipk was sick.
1t is true l had frequent headaches;
! felt tired most of she time; could
eat nothing one day and was
ravenous the next; felt dull pains
and my stomach was out of order
but did not think it meant anything
serious. The medical profession has
.f,Ny, inc 4 81 4 20
eases for years, and it is high time it
ceased. The symptoms l have Just
| mentioned or any unusual action or ir-
ritation Of the water channels indicate
the approach Of kidney disease more
than cough announces the coming of
consumption. We do not treat the
cough, but try to help the lungs. We
should not waste our time trying to
| relieve the headache, pains about the
body or other symptoms, bat go direct
ly to the kidneys the source of most Of
these ailments"
This then Is what you meant when
you said that Eaore than one-half the
deaths which occur arise from Brights
disease, is it Doctor
Precisely. Thousands of diseases
are torturing people to-day, which in
reality are Bright's disease in some of
its many forms. 1t is a hydra-headed
monster, and the slightest symptoms
should strike terror to every one who
has them. can look back and recall
hundreds Of deaths which physicians
declared at the time were caused by
| paralysis, apeplexy, heart disease, pneu-
monia, malarial fever and other COM
mon complaints, which | see Eow were
/ caused by Bright's disease"
/ "And did all these cases have simple
| symptoms at first2"
| every one of them, and might have
been cured as | was by the timely use
Of the same remedy. | am getting my
/ eyes thoroughly opened in this matter
and think | am helping others to see
the facts and their possible danger al
sou
Mr.. Warner, who was visited at his
establishment on North st. Paul street,
! spoke very earnestly:
at is true that Bright's disease had
increased wonderfully, and we find, by
reliable statistics, that from no to 80 its
growth was over $50 per cent. Look at
the prominent men it has carried OFF,
and is taking off every year, for while
many are dying apparently Of paralysis
and apoplexy, they are really victims
of kidney disorder, which causes heart
disease, paralysis, apoplexy, etc. Near.
ly every week the papers record the
death of some prominent man from
this sceurge. Recently, however, the
increase has been checked and | attrib'
ute this to the general use of nay rem
esy."
'Do you think many people are af-
hicted with it to-day who do not real
ize itF'
ga prominent professor in New Or
leans medical college was lecturing
before HIS class on the subject of Bright's
disease, He had various fluids under
microscopic analysis, and was show
Tag the students what the indications
of this terrible malady were. And
now, gentlemen he said, 'as we have
seen the unh ealthy indication ] will
show you how it appears in state OF
perfect health and he submitted his
own fluid to the usual test. AS he
watched the result his countenancs sud
denly changed his color and command
both left him and In trembling voice
he said: Gentlemen, have made pain
full discovery, have Bright's disease of
the kidneys And in less than year
he was dead. The slightest indications
OF any Kidney dltncuity should be
enough to strike terror to any one"
"You know DR.. Henion's casep
Eyes, / have both read and heard of
it,"
at is very wonderful, is il not?'
"No more 80 than great many
others that have come to my notice as
having been cured by the same means"
you believe then that Bright's dis
ease can be cured.'
81 know it can. know it from my
own and the experience Of thousands
Of prominent psrsons whe were given
up to die both by their physicians and
friends"
"You speak of your own experience;
what was itS'
"a fearful one. / had felt lauguid
and untitled for business for years.
But / did not know what allied me.
When, however, found it ,sas kidney
difficulty l thought tkere was little hope
and 50 did the doctors. have since
learned that one of the physicians OF
this city pointed me cut to gentleman
on the street one day, saying; There
coes man who will be dead within "A