New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-11
"A THRILLING EXPERIENCE,
Remarkable statement of Personal
Danger and Providential Escape.

Remarkable Statement of Personal
| Danger and Providential Escape.
The following storS which is at
tracing wide attention from the press
is SO remarkable that we cannot ex-
cuse ourselves if we. do not lay it be-
fore our readers, entire.
To the 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 then endured for words can
never describe it. And yet, if a few
years previous any one had told me
that | was to be brought so low, and
by SO terrible q disease, should have
scoffed at the idea. / had always
been uncommonly strong aud 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 state
ment realize at times they are I'M
usually tired and cannot 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 day and entirely without
appetite the next. This was just he
way felt when the relentless malady
which had fastened itself upon me
first began, Still Thought nothing
of it; that probably I had taken a cold
which would soon pass away. Shortly
after this I noticed a heavy, and at
times neuralgia, pain in one side OF my
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and be gone the next, paid little at
tention to it. Then my stomach
would get out of order and my food
often failed to digest, causing at times
great inconvenience. Yet, even as a
physician I did not think that these
things ment anything serious. 1 fam
cied [ was suffering from malaria and
doctored myself accordingly But I
got no better. next noticed pecu-
liar color and odor about the fluids [
was passing 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 [ do not
realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing
these symptoms continually, finally
became accustomed to them, and my
suspicion was wholly disarmed by the
fact that had no pain in the effected
organs or in their vicinity. Why I
should have been so blind I cannot
understand.
1 consulted the best medical skill in
the land. I visited all the famed min
eral springs in America and Travelled
from Maine to California. Still Igrew
worse. No two physicians agreed as
to my malady. One said I was
troubled with spinal irritation; an
other, dyspepsia; another, heart dis
ease; another, general debility; anoth-
er, congestion of the base of the brain
and SO on through a long list of com
mon diseases, the symptoms of many
OF which [ really had. In this way
several years passed, during which
time [ was steadily growing worse.
My condition had really become pitia-
BILE. The slight symptoms [ had at
first experienced were developed into
terrible and constant disorders. NV
weight had been reduced from 2O7 to
100 pounds. My life was a burden to
myself and friends. I could retain no
food on my stomach, and lived Who'll
ly by injections. was q 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 lit
tie OF no effect in deadening the pain.
For six days and nights had the
death premonitory hiccoughs con-
stantly. My water was filled with
tube-casts albumen. Twas struggling
with Bright's Disease of the kidneys
in it's last stages!
While suffering thus received cali
from my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Foote,
at that time rector of St. Paurs Epis-
copal Church, of this city. I felt that
1T Was our last interview, but in the
course of conversation Dr. Foote de-
tailed to me the many remarkable
cures of cases like my own which had
come under his observation. AS "a
practicing physician and a graduate
of the schools, I derided the idea of
any medicine outside the regular cham
nels being in the least beneficial SO
sollcltous, however, was DIR. Foote,
that | finally promised I would waive
my prejudice. I began its use on the
first day of June, 1881, and took it
according to directions. At first lit
sickened me; but this thought was a.
good sign for one in nay debilitated
condition. Icontinued to take it; the
sickening sensation departed and was
finally able to retain food upon nav
stomach. In q few days Noticed a.
decided change for the better, as also
did my wife and friends Ny hiocoughs
ceased and experienced less pain
than formerly. Iwasso reioiced at this
improved condition that, upon what
Ihad believed but a few days before was
my dying bed, | vowed, in the presence
of my family and friends, should re-
cover, | would both publicly and pri-
vately make known this remedy for
the good Of humanity, wherever and
whenever I 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 l had gained 20 pounds in