Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-02-21
ATHRILLlNG EXPERIENCE,
Remarkable Statement of Personal Dan.
 ger and Providential Escape.

selves if we do not lay it before our read CTS, entire.
 To Me Editor Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat:
 SIR.-On the first day of June, 1881, lay at my residence in this city sur rounded by my friends and waiting for death. Heaven only knows the agony 1 then endured, for words can never de- scribe it. And yet, if few years pre- vious any one had told me that I was to be brought so low, and by so terrible a disease, I should have scoffed @. he idea. had always been uncommoniy strong and healthy, and weighed over 200 pounds and hardly knew, in my own expei fence, what pain or sickness were Very man, people who will read this statement realize at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for it. They feel dull pains in various parts of the body and do not understand why. Or they are exceedingly hungry one day an entirely without appetite the next. This was just the way felt when the relentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought n"thing of it; that probably had taken cold which would soon pass away. Shortly after this I noticed a heavy, and at times neuralgia, pain in one side of my head, but as it would come one day and he gone the next, 1 paid little attention to it. Then my stomach would get out of order and my food often fail to digest, causing at times great inconvenience. Yet, even as physi- elan, did not think that these things meant anything serious. fancied 1 was suffering from malaria and doctored my self ac ,urdnglv. But 1 got no better. I next n tirej 6 peculiar color and odor about th finds I was passing. also that there were large quantities one day and v-rr li;tia the next, and thst a persistent 'sJ h and scum appeared on the surface, .nd sediment settled. And yet I did ns realize my danger, for. indeed, seeing these sym: toms continually, I finally be- .ame accu- -tomad to them, and my sus- .; in sas VI; lily disarmed by the fact ,.i.t lad no pain in the effected organs 3 in ticir vicinity. Why I should have been ,o Dl.ni cannot understand
 l co .ulel the best medical skill in the la,ri 1 visited all the famed min- erl s.--;ngs n America and travelled ii ,n li iine to Calilnrnia. still l grew ,, rsr. N two physicians agreed as to
 ~ iua 'ady. nn6 said l was troubled with s;inal irritation; another, dyspep- sia; another, heart disease; another, genera: debility; another, congestion of
 he ha-r O. tno brain; and so on through
 lnnS t Gf cUiu anon diseases, the symp- -..-,is o3 nIly o! which l really had. In
 = vay several years passed, during rhich iir l was ste.ui'ly growing worse. - -.r '':.Oir ha really become pitiable. = P. >vlnp on. ] had at first expe-
 | -.-c hays o |" ibto terrible and
 or talt sii-.,fdecs. Ai weight had been
 .. u,-, rom 2'1 10 i30 pounds. My
 = va bur len to myself and friends.
 :.uni retain 10 fO,.d on my stomach, .'1 T II wholly by injections. I was
 .y;ng mass pi p in. My pulse was un- .):5rtil ,ljle. la my agonv frequently .eI 'c ',... : al r!H'chrd the carpet, and Irayeu i0- death. Murphine had tile ar po eft in dea Iening pain. For si1 d..v, anl .ighrs had the death prcmonito-y hiccou hs constantly. My
 ate~ was filled with tube-casts and alhu!nen. Twas struggling with Bright's Vi ea 5, of he kidneys in its last stages
 WHi.e su. erina thus. l received 8 cali : Im m pa-tor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, at. .hat lime rector of St. Paul's Episcopal
 hur,h oi this c.ty. 1 felt that it was DIT last interview, h"t in the course of ,s ,tg .. m nT r fGata ab ,s,,res as,e:'id no nay oan which had come under his ob- S-rva- ion As d pra:ticing physician :. . graduate of the schools, derided .he i.!ea of any medicine outside the regular channels being in the least ben- eficial. So solicitons. however, was Dr. F9otc, hat ! finally promised 1 would | hnnon nV, the first day of June. 1881. and took it according tn directions. At first it sick ened me; out this 1 thought was good sign for one. in rly debiiitated condition. ! continued to take it: the sickening sensation depar ed and was finally able 60 retain food upun my stomach. In 8 the better, as also did my wife and friends. My hiccou .hs ceased and ex- perienced jess pain than formerly. Twas SD rejoic u tiis improved condition that, u.,on what l had believed but few days b1:c.a was my dying bed, vowed. l the P eseEce of my family and friends :;iluii rec ,vrr, l would both publicl, ::n: privately make known this remedy i..r tie good of humanity, wherever 5.Ii whenever l had an oppor- tunity, ;,:!.i this letter Is in fultillment of that vor. Ny improvement was con- st.nt iron; that tinIr, and in less than three ;mc hs i had gained twenty-six pounds j.. hesh, became entirely free from pain .':i'i believe I owe my life and present con ition wholly to Warmers Safe Cur, ;ire rcmedy which l used.
 Since nay recovery l have thoroughly re-invesI 9ated t..e subject of kidney difficult a:,I B,ic:t's disease, and the truths ,,.-yelop-d d are astounding. 1 therefore >t.t+, IelG rat,-ly, and as a physician, that be ieve more than one haIf the deoiis ,ciich occur in .lmsrica are ca sol jg iiigh' s disease of the kidneyS. This may spind ike rash statemsnt but 1 arr prepared to fully verify it. Fright disease has lis in..tiye fea- lures Q, It's own. indeed, It U.ten de- vel0pes with It any pain whatever in the k dut y5 or ti '" riritv) bu has the symptoms of nU;.., ,t' ry Jt!er cOnnOn complaint. IIundre Is of people die daily, whose burials are authorized by phy- sician's certificate as occurring from Clear; Disease" "Apoplexy," Para lysis," Spinal Complaint" "Rheuma- tism. " ''I'neumOnid," and other common complaint when in reality it is from Brlght's disease ot the kidneys. Few physicians, and -aer people, realize the extent of this ,.i -"ase or its dangerous and insidious nature. 1t steals into the system like thief, manifests it's presence if at all by the commonest symptoms and fastens itself in the constitution be- fore the victim is aware of it. It is nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as common and fully as fatal Entire families, inheriting 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 symptoms it often shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly, from convulsions, apoplexy, or heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter ex- perience what he says, implore every one who reads t!iese words not to neglect the slightest symptoms oi kidney ditfi- culty. No one can afford to hazard such