The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-02-17
A TERRIBLE CONCESSION.
Physician Presents some Startling Facts
Can it he That the Danger Indicated
Is Universal.


The following story.which is attracting
wide attention from the press-is so remark
able that we can not excuse ourselves if we
do not lay it before our readers entire:
To the Editor Ofthe 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 for death. Heaven
| only knows the agony / then endured. for
words can never describe it. And yet, if
| few years previous any one had told me that
| Twas to be brought so low, and by SO terrible
| a disease, | should have scoffed at the idea
| ! had always been uncommOnly strong and
healthy, and weighed over 200 pounds, and
hardly knew, in my own experience, what
| pain or sickness were. Very many people
who will read this statement realize at times
they are unusually tired and can
not account for it. They feel dull pains in
various parts of the body and do not under
stand why. Or they are exceedingly hungry
one dav and entirely without appetite the
next This is just the way | felt when the
resembles malady which had fastened itself
upon me first began Still thought nothing
of it; that probably had taken cold which
would soon pass away. Shortly after this |
noticed 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 it. Then my stomach
would get out of order and my food often
| failed to digest, causing at times great in
convenience. Vet, even as a physician |
did not think that these things meant any
thing serious | fancied was suffering from
malaria and dOctored myself accordingly.
But l got no better. / next noticed pc
culiar color and Odor about the fluids was
passing-also that there were large quaint
ties one day and very little the next, and
that persistent frOth and scum appeared
upon the surface. and a sediment settled,
And yet did not rea iZe 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 1 had no pain in the affected organs or
in their vicinity. Why should have been
so blind can not understand
| consulted the best medical skill in the
! land | yisised all the famed medical
springs in America and travelled from Maine
to California. Still | grew worse. No two
| physicians agreed as to my maady. One
said | was troubled with spinal irritation,
another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease;
| another, general debility; another, conges-
ton OF the base of the brain, and so on
| through long list of common diseases the
| symptoms OF many of which l really had.
| In this way several years passed, during
which time l was steadily growing worse.
| My condition had really become pitiab,e.
The slight symptoms | first experienced were
| developed into terrible and constant disoI-
| ders. My weight had been reduced from 207
self 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. Morphine had little or
| no effect in deadening the pain. For six
days and nights had the death premonitory
| hiccoughs constantly! My water was filled
| with tube-casts and albumen. | was strug-
| Cling with Bright's Disease of the kidneys in
| its last stages
| While suffering thus received call from
my pastor the Rev. DIR. Foote, at that time
| Rector of st. Paurs Episcopal Church, of
! this city. l felt that it was our last inter
view, 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. As practicing ply
stefan and graduate OF the school. derided
the idea of any medicine outside the regular
| channels being in the least beneficial. So So
| licitous however, was DR.. FOote that final
| ly promised | would waive my pre- udice.
| L began its use on the first day of June, 1881,
and took it according 10 directions. At first
! it sickened me; but this | thought was a
| good sign for one III my dibilidated cOndi-
| ton. | continued TO take it; the sickenng
| sensation departed and was finally able to
| retain food upon my stomach. In few
| DAYS | noticed decided change for the bet
| ter as, also, did my wife and friends. My
ulttOugllS OesSeO anu L eA pcIltHCcN less pam
than formerly. / was so reioiced at this inn
! proved condition that, upon what | had be-
| lieved but few days before was my dying
| bed, | vowed in the presence of my family
and friends, should [ recover | would both
| publicly and privately make known this
T remedy for the good of humanity. wherever
and whenever | had an opportunity, and
this letter is in fultillment of that VOW. My
! improvement was constant from that time,
and in less than three months had gained
| twenty-six pounds 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 Bright's disease, and the truths de-
veloped are astounding. | therefore state,
deliberately, and as a physician, that be-
| lieve more than one-half the deaths which
| occur in America are caused by Bright's dis
ease of the kidneys. This may sound like
rash statement, but | am prepared to
verify 1t fully. Brights disease has no
distinctive features of its own (indeed, it
often develops without any pam whatever
| in the kidneys or their vicinity, but has the
| symptoms of nearly every other common
I complaint Hundreds of people die daily,
whose burials are authorized by physicians
certificate as occurring from Heart Disease,
''Apoplexy," Paralysis" Spinal Com
] plant" "Rhematism," pneumonia" and
| the OIner common complaints, Nnen Ill re-
| atty it is from Bright's disease of the kid
neys. Few physicians, and fewer people,
realize the extent of this disease or its
dangerous and insidious nature. 1t steals
into the system like a thief manifests its
presence if at all by the commonest symp-
toms and fastens itself In the constitution
before the victim is aware of it. 1t is nearly
as hereditary as consumption, quite as COM
mon and fully as fatal. Entire families in
| heriting it from their ancestors have died,
and yet none of the number knew or
realized the mysterious power which was
removing them, Instead of common symp-
toms it often shows none whatever, but
| brings death suddenly, from commissions,
apoplexy or heart disease.
AS one who has suffered, and knows by
bitter experience what he says, l implore
every one who reads these words not to
neglect the slightest symptoms of kidney
difficulty. No one can afford to hazard such
| chances.
l make the foregoing statements based
upon facts which can substantiate to the
letter. The welfare of those who may pos
sibly be sufferers such as was is en- ample
l i,,Hr for 70 faly ha Ell II hau