Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-01-16
AStartIing Confession
Can zt be that tine Dsnger Hndiea-
ted ~ Unfversal.


ted ~ Unfversai.
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The following story which Is attract
ing wide attention from the press-is 30
remarkable that We cannot excuse our.
selves II We do mot lay IL bsfore our
readers entire:
To the Editor or mo Rochestsr IN. Y.)
Uemccrht.
slri-On the first dag Of june, 1881.
I lay ut my residenoe In this city sur
rounded by my friends snd waiting for
death. Heaven only knows the agony
I then endnred, for words oan never
describe II. And yet. II q few years
previous any one had told methat was
10 be brought 20 low, and By 90 terrible
. disease, should have sooffsd st the
idea. I had always besn uncomnonly
strong and healthy, and weighed over
| 200 pounds, and hardly knew, 10 my
|Own experience. what pain or sickness
we're. Very many people who will
they are unusually tired and csnno.
various parts of the body and do not
understand why. Or they are exceed
ipRly hungry one day audentirely with
the way felt when the relentless
maiady which had fastened itself upon
me first began. Still 1 thought nothing
Of is, that probably had taken cold
which would NOON pass away. Shortly
after thin I noticed heavy. and at
times neuralgia. pain in one side Of my
head, but ~ it would come one day
and be gone the next, l paid little atten.
tion 10 Il. Then my stomach would
get out OF order aud my food often
failed 70 digest. causing at times great
|inconvenience. Yet, oven as q physi-
clan, did not think that theee things
meant anything serious. ] fancied /
was suffering from malaria and doctor.
cd myself accordingly. Bat got no
better. next noticed peculiar color
and odor about the fiulds was psssing
also that there were large quantities
one day and very little the naxt, and
that'A persistent froth and scum appear
cd upon tho surface, and sediment
settled. And yeti did NOT rezlise my
danger, for, indeed, seeing these
symptoms continually, ! finally be-
came accustomed 20 them, and my sus
picion ~as ~holly disarmed By the
fact that had no palm In the affected
organs or In their Vicinity. Why
I should have been 30 blind ! cannot
understand 1as
consulted the best medical skill in
the land; visited ell the famed mine
raj springs In American aud travelled
from Maine 30 California. stu grew
wofse. No two physicians agreed as to
| my mAlsdy. Ono said was troubled
with spinal Irritation, another, dyspep
sis; another, heart disease; another,
kcneIAi uoulnsy Anc.no Oonkesslon y
.ne oAys " .ne ptAini ~ ~ On snIoaen
l1nk nss ~ coin mon oihsssoss.no symP
soms ~ many oI wnaop \ .eA nv.
N tn.s ~ sesSlsl yezas Rs.ssu, ~.
ing Wnicn ume ~ s.ea1ily krowtnh
worse. conr..lon nnu teaI,
pecome piuAple. 1ne snGnt symReon
- nIss exPeIissceu Mere 1svelope'
ineo terno,e ana constant DISORDERS ~
4 MY weight nso peen reoncou IRON ~
70 lou pounds. MY ire was puroen
70 myseii and irieuds couio retaii
no 1000 on my stomacns ana i've
wholly Dy inJections. 4 was nVini
mass o. pain. NY pulse was uncon
troliaole. In my agony l frequentl,
fell 70 the hoor and olntched the carpet
and prayed for deathi Morphine ha'
little or no effect In deadening the pain
For six days and niehts 1 had IN
death premonitory hiocoughs constant
iyi MY water was hlled with tube
casts and albumen. 1 was strusxlin
with Bright's Disease OF the kidneys II
Z tts last stagesI
While suffering thus resolved . cal
I from my pastor, the R3v. DIR. Eoote, q
T. that time rector OF b. Paups Episcopi
ichuroh, OF this city. ! felt that it wa
our last interview, but In tho course {
, tcouversation DR.. Foote detailed 10 m
8 the many remarkable cures of cass
like my own which had como under hi
] observation. As practictng physi ella
: and graduate Of the schools, deride
t the idea OF any medicine outside tt
] regular channels being In the lea
] beneficial 80 solicitous, however, wa
8 DR.. Eoote, that l hnally promised
e would wave my prejudice. / began Ii
s use on the first day Of June. 1881, IN
a took it according to directions. Al firl
/ 10 sickened me; but this thought WI
IL good sign for one in my debilitate
!, condition. lcontinued 70 take IL; q
Q siokening sensation departed and We
finally able TO retain food upon m
q stomach. In . few days noticed
decided change for the better. - ali
y did my wife and friends. My hit
coughs ceased and I experienced le
pain than formerly. ! was 90 rejoice
u at this improved condition that, upo
o what had believed but few da,
d before was my. dying bed, vowed,
p the presence OF my family and friend
n and privately make known this remed
a for the good Of humanity, wherever ar
n whenever I had nm opportunity, m
q this letter 10 10 fulfillment of that vos
IS Ny improvement was constant froI
D THAT time. and In lese than three montl