The Brookhaven leader., 1891-02-12
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement OF Personal Dam
| ger and Providentlal Escape.

Inc following Story-which Is attract
ing wide attention from the press-is so
remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves If we do not lay it before our
readers, entire.
| To he Editor Rochester IN ~ 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 ii. And yet, II q
few years previous any one had told me
that was to be brought so low, and By so
terrible disease, 1 should have scoffed at
the idea. l had always been uncommonly
strong and healthy, and weighed over 200
pounds and hardly knew, in my own expert
ence, what pain or sickness were. Very
many 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 SIRE ex-
| ceedingly hungry one day and entirely
| without appetite the next. This was just
the way felt when the relentless malady
| which had fastened itself upon me first be-
gan. Still / thought nothing of 1t; that
probably had taken q cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly after this l no
| ticed heavy, and at times neuralgia, pain
| one day and be gone the next, l paid little
attention to it. Then my stomach would get
out of order and my food often failed to
| digest, causing at times great inconven-
fence. Yet, even as physician, did not
think that these things meant anything seri-
Gus. i fancied was suffering from ma
laria and doctored myself accordingly. But
i got no better. l next noticed a peculiar
color and odor about the fluids was pass
| ing-also that there were large quantities
one day and very little the next, and that
persistent froth and scum appeared on the
| surface, and a sediment settled. And yet
| did not realize my danger, for, indeed, see
ing these symptoms continually, l finally
became accustomed to them, and my suspi-
cion was wholly disarmed by the fact that
had no pain in the affected organs or in their
vicinity. Why should have been so blind
cannot understand.
| 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 malady. 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 a 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 pitiable.
The slight symptoms l had at first expert
enced were developed into terrible and
| constant disorders. My weight had been
| reduced from 207 to 100 pounds. Ny life
| was q burden to myself and friends. Icould
| 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 to the floor and
| clutched the carpet, and prayed for death.
Morphine had little or no effect in deaden-
| ing the pain. For six days and nights had
the death-premonitory hiccoughs constant
| ly. My water was filled with tube-casts
and albumen. l was struggling with
Bright's Disease of the kidneys in its last
| stages!
While suffering thus received call from
| my pastor, the Rev DR.. Foote, at that time
rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church, of
| this city. 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 practlclng
! physician and graduate of the schools,
| derided the idea of any medicine outside the
regular channels being in the least bene-
fetal. So solicitous, however, was Dr.
| Foote, that finally promised would waive
| my prejudice. l began its use on the first
| day of June, 1881, and took it according TO
| directions At first it sickened me; but
this l thought was q good sign for one in
my debilitated condition. l continued tc
take it; the sickening sensation departed
and was finally able to retain food upon
| my stomach. In few days l noticed de-
| cided change for the better, as also did my
| wife and friends My hiccoughs ceased
| and experienced less pain than formerly.
| | was so rejoiced at this improved condition
| that, upon what had believed but q few days
before was my dying bed, l vowed, in the
presence of my family and friends, should
| / recover, l would both publicly and pri-
vately make known this remedy for the
| good of humanity, wherever and whenever
! had an opportunity, and this letter is in
| fulfllment of that vow. My Improvement
was constant from that time, and in less
than three months had gained IS pounds
in flesh, became entirely free from pain and
believe owe my life and present condi-
ton wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the rem
edy which used.
Since my recovery have thoroughly re-
| investigated the subject of kidney diff
| culties and Bright's disease, and the truths
| developed are astounding. l therefore
| state, deliberately, and as q physician, that
| believe more than one-half the DEATHS Uhtch
| occur in America are caused By Br'ghts dis
ease Of the kidneys. This may sound like
rash statement, but am prepared to fully
| verify it. Brights disease has no distinctive
features of its own, Indeed, it often devel-
ops without any pain whatever in the
kidneys or their vicinity but has the symp-
toms of nearly every other common COM
plant. Hundreds of people die daily, whose
burials are authorized by physicians GER
tifcate as occurring from "Heart Disease"
| "Apoplexy," paralysis" "Spinal Com
plaint,n "Rheumatism, :" pneumonia" and
other common 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 insidious 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 hered-
itary 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 mysteri-
Gus power which was removing them. In
| stead of common symptoms it often shows
none whatever, but brings death suddenly,
from commissions, apoplexy, or heart dis
ease AS one who has suffered, and knows
by bitter experience what he says, i'm
plore everyone who reads these words not
to neglect the slightest symptoms of kidney