The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-01-21
A TERRIBLE CONFESSION.
PHYSICIAN PRESENTS SOME STARTLING
FACTS.
CAN IT BE THAT TIE DANGER INDICATOR Is
UNIVERSAL.

FACTS.
CAN 1T BE THAT TIE DANGER INDICATOR 1
UNIVERSAL.
The following story-which is attract
ing wide attention from the press-is g.
selves if we do not lay it before our read
ers entire:
To the Editor of the Rochester CIV. Y.
Democrat.
S1R:-On the first day of June, 1881,
lay at my residence in this city surround
ed by my friends and waiting for death
Heaven only knows the agony then en-
dured, for words can never describe it
And yet, if few years previous any on,
had told me thas I was to be brought 81
low. and by SO terrible disease, l should
have scoffed at the idea. / had always
been uncommoniy strong and healthy
and weighed over 200 pounds, and hard,
knew, in my own experience, what pair
or sickness was. Very many people
who will read this statement reatize q
times they are unusually tired and can
not account for it. They feel duh pains
in various parts of the body and do no,
understand why. Or they are exceeding
ly hungry one day and entirely without
appetite the next. This was just the way
l felt when the relentless malady which
bad fastened itself upon me first began
Still ! thought nothing of it that prob
| ably 1 had taken a cold which would
ticed heavy, and at times neuralgia,
| ~, Of haaI hy,f
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. / fan
cied / was suffering from malaria and
| doctored myself accordingly. But got
| no better. / next noticed peculiar col
| or and odor about the fluids [ was pass
! ing-also that there were large quantities
| one day and very little the next, and that
| q persistent froth and scum appeared
| upon the surface, and a sediment settled.
And yet / did not realize my danger, for,
| indeed, seeing these symptoms continu-
| ally, L finally became accustomed to them,
and my suspicion was wholly disarmed
| by the fact that I had no pain in the af
| fected organs or in their vicinity. Why
| [ should have been so blind | cannot I'M
derstand
l consulted the best medical skill in
the land. visited all the famed mineral
springs in America and travelled from
Maine to California Still l grew worse
No two physicians agreed as to my NAL
| ady. One aid was troubled with spin
al irritation, 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 really had. In this way sew
eral years passed, during which time l
was steadily growing worse. My condi-
ton had really become pitiable. The
slight symptoms I at first experienced
were developed into terrible and constant
disorders. My weight had been reduced
from 207 to $50 pounds. My life was a
burden to myself and friends. I could
retain no food on my stomach and lived
wholly by injections. l was living mass
of pain. My pulse was uncomfortable.
In my agony I frequently fell to the floor
| and olutohed the carpet, and prayed for
death ! Morphine had little or no effect
in deadening the pain. For six days and
nights 1 had the death premonitory hic-
| cough constantly! Ny water was filled
with tube casts and albumen. I was
| struggling with Bright's Disease of the
kidneys in its last stages
While suffering thus I received call
from my pastor, the Rev. DIR. Foote, at
tnat time rector of st. Paul's Episcopal
church, of this city. l felt that if was
| our last interview, but in the course of
conversation DIR. Foote detailed to me
| the many remarkable cures of cases like
| my own which nad come under his OBJ
servation. As a practicing physician and
| a 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 L finally promised l would waive my
prejudice. | began it's use on the first
day Of June, 1881. and took it according
to directions. At first it sickened me;
but this thought was good sign for
one in my debilitated condition. L con-
tlnued to take it /; the sickening sensation
| departed and l was finally able to retain
| food upon my stomach. In few days l
| noticed decided change for the better,
as also did my wife and friends. My
| hicooughs ceased and 1 experienced less
pain than formerly. / was so rejoiced at
| this improved condition that, upon what
l believed but few days before was nv
dying bed, vowed, in the presence of
my family and friends, should l recover
1 would both publicly and privately make
! known this remedy for the good of hu-
| manity, wherever and whenever I had al
opportunity, and this letter is in fullf.m"
ment of that vow. My improvement.
was constant from that time, and in less
than three months / had gained 26
pounds in flesh, became entirely free
from pain and l believe / owe my life
and present condition wholly to Warner
safe cure, the remedy which 1 nsed
Since my recovery have thoroughly
re-investigated the subject of kidney
difficulties and Bright's disease, and the
truths developed are astounding. I
therefore state, deliberately, and as O
physician, that believe more than one
half the deaths aUhich occur in america
are caused by Bright's disease of the
Kidneys. This may sound like rash
statement, but 1 am prepared to verify it
fully. Bright's disease has no distinctive
features of Its own, (ndeed, it often de-
veopes without any pain whatever in the
kidneys or their vicinity, but has the
symptoms OF nearly every other common
complaint. Hundreds of people die
daily, whose burials are authorized by a
physicians certificate as occurring from
Heart Disease, " "Apoplexy," ''Paraly-
SIS" ''Spinal Complaint" "Rheuma-
tism," Pneumonia, and the other com
mon complaints, when in reality it is from
Bright's disease of the kidneys. Few
physicians, and fewer people, realize the
extent of this disease or its dangerous
and insidiou5 nature. 1t steals into the
system like thief, manifests its presence
If at all by the commonest symptoms and
fastens itself in the constitution before
the victim is aware of it. 1t is nearly as
hereditary az cOnsumniion ouita oo ooro