Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
JUST AS BAD AS PAINTED.
Widespread Commotion Caused by the
Terrible Confession of a Physician.

The story published in these col
umns recently, from the Rochester,
n. V, Democrat and Chronicle, Gre
ated a deal of comment here as it has
elsewhere. Apparently it caused
even more commOtion in Rochester,
as the following from the same paper
shows:
DR.. j. B. Henion, who is we'll
known not only in Rochester, but in
nearly every part of America, sent an
extended article to this paper a few
days ago which was duly published,
detailing his remarkable experience
and rescue from what seemed to be
certain death. 1t would be impossi-
BILE to enumerate the personal inqui-
rieS which have been made at our Of
fee as to the validity of the article,
but they have been so numerous that
further investigation of the subject
was deemed necessary.
With this end in viewa representa-
tive of thispaper called on DR., Henion
at his residence on Andrews street,
when the follawing interview occur
red: "That article of yours, Doctor,
has created quite whirwind. Are
the statements about the terrible con-
ditiOn your were in, and the way you
were rescued, such as you can sus-
tain?"
"Every one of them and many adj
ditional ones. | was brought so low
by neglecting the first and most sim
pie symptoms. | did not think |
was sick. 1t is true | had frequent
headaches; felt tired most of the 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 seri-
Gus. The medical profession has been
treating symptoms instead of diseases
for years, and it is high time itceased.
The symptoms have aforementioned
or any unusual action or irritation of
the water channels indicate the APP
proach of kidney disease more than a
cough announces the coming of con-
sumption. 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, but go directly
to the kidneys, the source of most OF
these ailments"
"This, then, is what you meant,
when you said that more than one
half the deaths which occur arise from
Bright's disease, is it Doctor ?"
Precisely. Thousands Of diseases
are torturing people today, 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 tC
every one who has them. l can look
back and recall hundreds of deaths
which physicians declared at the
time were caused by paralysis, apo
pleXy, hearts disease, pneumonia
malarial fever and other common
complaints, which see now were
caused by Bright's disease"
"And did all these cases have sim
=, pie symptoms at first?"
"Every one of them, and nigh
have been cured as l was by thu
, timely remedy of the same medicine
l am getting my eyes thoroughly
opened in this matterand think an
, helping others to see the facts anC
+, their possible danger also"
Mr.. Warner, who was visited a
, his establishment on North st. Pau
: street, spoke very earnestly.
"It is true that Bright's disease haC
increased wonderfully, and we fine
by reliable statistics that from 20 t,
80, its growth was over $50 per cent
n Look at the prominent men it ha
p carried off, and is taking off ever.
4 year, for while many are dying ap
q parently of paralysis and apoplexy
!. they are really victims of kidney dis
4 order, which causes heart disease
d paralysis, apoplexy, etc. Nearl.
d every week the papers record tn
s death af some prominent man from
J. this scourge. Recently, however, tn
q increase has been checked and l attri
@ butte this to the general use of m,
It remedy"
q "Do you think many people ar
n afflicted with it today who do no
+ realize it?"
IS ga prominent professor in Ney
J. Orleans medical college was lecturin
l. before his class on the subject G