The Rugby news. (Rugby, Morgan County, Tenn.) 1890-189?, 1891-02-21
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement of Personal Dam
ger and Providential Escape.

The 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 Editor Rochester IN ~ mocrat.
SIR On the first day Of June, 1881, I lay
at my residence in this city surrounded by
my friends and waiting for death. Heaven
only knows the agony l. then endured, for
words can never describe it.. And yet, II
few years previous any enc had told me
that was to be brought so low, and by SO
terrible disease, should have scoffed at
the idea 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 are ex-
ceedingly, hungry one day ana 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 it; that
probably / had taken q cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly, after this no.
ticed heavy, and at times neuralgia. pain
in one side OF my head, but asitwould come
one day and be gone the next, paid little
attention to It, Then my ste mach 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-
ous fancied was suffering from. ma
laria and doctored myself accordingly But
l got no better. l next not,sed "a peculiar
color and odor about the fluids was pass
one day and very little the next, and that
persistent froth and scum appeared on the
surface, and sediment settled. And yet /
did not realize my danger, for, indeed, SEQ
ing these symptoms continually, ! finally
became accustomed to them, and my suspi-
cion was wholly disarmed blythe fact t1At !
had no pain in the affected organs orfiH tlieN
vicinity. Why should have been so blind
] cannot understand.
consulted the best medical skill. in the
land. visited allthe famed mineral springs
in America and travelled fronG Maine to
CaliferYSa s Still sysseew .fssrssk NO tive
A physicians agreed as 10 my nalady One
said Twas troubled with spsfal irritation T;
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 / really had.
I'm this way several years passed, during
which time Twas steadily growing worse
My condition had really become pitiable
\ The slight symptoms had at first expert
!enced were developed into terrible and
, constant disorders. My weight had been
reduced from 207 to l30 pounds. My life
was burden to myself and friends. Icould
retain no food on my stomach, and lived
wholly by injections. was a 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 hat
y the death premonitory hiccoughs constant
ly. My water was filled with tube-cast!
and albumen. l was struggling witt
Eright's Disease OF the kidneys in its las
stages! TAv
Il While suffering thus received a call from
my pastor the Rev. DR.. Foote, at that timt
: rector of st Pauls Episcopal Church, o
this city. felt that it was our last inter
l. view, but in the course of conversation DR.
Foote detailed to me the many remarkable
| cures OF cases like my own which had com
under his observation. AS a practicin
} physician and graduate of the schools,
, derided theidea of any medicine outside tn
regular channels being in the least bene
! fetal. So solicitous, however, was Dl
Foote, that i finally promisedI would waiv
( my prejudice. Ibegan its use on the frs
l day of June, 1891, and took it according t
directions. At first it sickened me; bu
I this thought was a good sign for one l
my debilitated condition. continued
, take it; the sickening sensation departe
and was finally able to retain food upo
: my stomach. In few days l noticed d.
: cided change for the better, as also did m
4 wife and friends. My hiccoughs cease
s and experienced less pain than formerly
+ was so rejoiced at this improved conditio
1 that, upon what had believed but a few day
before was my dying bed, vowed, in tn
presence Of my family and friends, shoul
I recover, would both publicly and pr
Y vately make known this remedy for tn
g good of humanity, wherever and wheneve
e / had an opportunity, and this letter is
d fulfllment of that VOW. My improvement
!. | was CUuSUuuU' lIOul Oudu tlluOi CIV III ASr
d than three mopths had gained 26 pound
9 in flesh, became entirely free from pain an
= believe Rowe my life and present cond
. ton whollyto Warmers Safe Cure, the ren
Q edy which used.
!, Since my recovery 1 have thoroughly r
L Investigated the subject of kidney diff
s. culties and Bright's disease, and the trutl
u developed are astounding. therefor
h state, deliberately, and as physician, tn;
q q believe more than oae-hdlf the deaths Whi'
! occur in America are caused by Brights di
y ease of the kidneys. This may sound like
- rash statement but 1 am prepared to full
+ lsyerify it, Brights disease has no distinctly
d features Of its'own, Indeed, it often deve
X ops without any pain whatever in Il
NJ kidneys or their vicinity, but has the sym
i toms of nearly every other common con
r plant. Hundreds Of people die daily, who's
burials areauthorized by a .physician's ce
y tifcate as occurring from "Heart Disease
"Apoplexy," Paralysis" "Spinal Coz
~ q N, ttpnpnroOpia " OIL