Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-02-06
A Thrilling Experiences.

The following story-which is at
tracing wide attention from the
press-is so remarkable that we can
not excuse ourselves il we do not lay
it before our readers, entire.
To the Editor Rochester IN. W
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 it. And
vet. if few years previous any one
had told me that | was to be brought
| so low, and by so terrible disease, L
should have scoffed at the idea. i had
always been uncommonly strong and
| healthy, and weighed over 900 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 ard cannot ac-
count for it. They feel dull pains in
various parts of the body and do not
understand why. Or they are exceed
ingly hungry one day and entirely
without appetite the neEt. This was
Just the way / felt when the relent-
less malady which had fastened itself
upon me first began Still thought
nothing Of it; that probably | had
taken a cold which would soon pass
away. Shortly after this noticed a
heavy, and at TIRES neuralgia, pain
i'm one side Of my head, but as it
would come one day and be gone the
next, / paid little attention to 1t:
| Then my stomach would get out OF
order and Inv food often failed to di-
gest, causing at times great lncon-
yenisnce. Yet, even as a physician.
did not think that these things meant
ANYTHING serious. l fancied | was
suffering from malaria and doctored
myself accordingly. But l got no
better. | next noticed peculiar
color and odor about the fluids l was
passing-also that there were large
Quantities one day and very little the
next, and that u persistent froth and
scum appeared on the surface, and
sediment settled. And yet did 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 affect
ed organs or in their vicinity. Why
I should have been 30 blind | cannot
understand.
consulted the best medical skill in
the land I visited all the famed
mineral springs in America and trav-
eled from Maine TO California. Still
agreed as to my malady. One said l
IL l., irrI faf I.N
another, dyspepsia; another, heart
disease; another, general DEPUTY; an
other. congestion OF the base OF the
brain; aud so on through long list
of common diseases, the symptoms
of many OF which L really had. In
this way several years passed, dur
ing which time | was steadily grow
iuy worse. Ny condition had really
become pitiable. The slight .symp-
toms | had at first experienced were
developed into terrible and constant
disorders My weight mad been re-
| duced from 207 10 100 pounds. My
life was burden 10 myself and
friends. | could retain no food on
nv stomach. and lived wholly 10y III
jecIions. | was a living mass OF pain.
Nv pulse was uncomfortable. In my
agony | frequently fell 10 tue Moor
and cluCcned the carpet, ana prayed
for death. Morphine mad little or no
effect in deadeuing the pain. For SIX
DAYS and nights | had the death
premonitory hiccougns constantly.
NV water was filled with tube-casts
and albumen. | was struggling with
Bright Disease OF the kidneys In Its
last stages.
e.. nd n
call from my pastor, tue hev. Dr'
Foote, al tuat time rector OF 81. Paul
Episcopal Church, OF this city. felt
that il was Our last interview, but III
the course of conversation DIR. Foot,
detailed 10 me the many remarkable
cures OF cases like my own which had
come under his observation. AS
practiclns pnysciaA and a graduate
of the schools, | derlded the IDEA OF
any medicine outside Of the regular
channels being i'll the least Oeuenciai,
So solIcisous, however, was Or. foote,
that | finally promised l would waive
NV prejudice | began its use ON the
first day of June 1881, and TOOK 1t &C
cording TO directions. AT first it sick
ened me; but this | thought was a
good sign for one in my debilitated
IL.
the sickening sensation departed and
l was finally able to retain food upon
nv stomach. In a few days noticed
q decided change for the better, as al
40 did nv wife and friends. My hic-
coughs ceased and l experienced less
pain than formerly. l was so reJolced
at this improved condition that, upon
what mad believed but q few days
before was my dying bed, vowed, IN
the presence of my famll y and friends,
should recover, would both public
ly and privately make known this
remedy for the good OF humanity.
wherever and whenever l had an OPP
portunity, and this letter is in fulfill
ment of that vow. My improvement
was constant from that time, and III
less than three months l had gained
26 pounds in flesh, became entirely
free from pain and l believe owe
my life and present condition wholly
to Warmers Safe Cure, the remedy
which | used.
Since my recovery have thorough
ly re-investigated the subject OF kid
ney difficulties and Bright's disease,
and the truths developed are astound-
ing. | therefore state, deliberately,
and as a physician, that | believe
more than one-haLf the deaths ,chich occur
in America are caused by Brights DIS
ease of the kidneys. This may sound
like a rasn statement, but l ain pre-
pared to fully verify it. Bright's dis
ease has no distinctive features of its
own, Gndeed, ii often develops with
out any pain whatever in the kidneys
or their vicinity but has the symp
toms of nearly every other common
complaint. Hundreds of people die
daily, whose burials are authorized
by q physicians certificate as occur
ring from Heart Disease" "Apop-
lexy," Paralysis" Spinal Com
plaint," rheumatism" "Pneumo
MIA. aud other common complaints,
when in reality it is from Bright's dis
ease of the kidneys. Few physicians,
and favar psople realiZe the extent