Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-02-14
a THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement Of Personal DAN-
ger and P~rovidentlal Escape

ger and lTONlueuNh1A ANf |
The following story-which is attract
inc wide attention from the press-isso
remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves if we do not lay 1t before our
readers, entire.
NJ a, Eator Rochester ~ ~ Democrat!
SIR On the first day Of June 1881, lay
at nv residence in this city surrounded py
nv friends and waiting for death. heaven
ouly knows the agony | then endured ior
words can never describe it. And yet ia
few wears previous any one had told me
that / was to be brought SO low, ana py SO
terrible a disease, l should have sconeu Nv
the idea. | had always been u~heouluicnIS
strong and healthy, and weighed over zV
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 tne oouS anu
do not understand why. Or they are *
ceedingly hungry one day ana ehlirely
without appetite the next. Thls was Just
the way felt when the relentless malay
which had fastened itself upon me nrst De-
gan. Still / thought nothing oil IT; that
| probably | had taken a cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly after this l no
| ticed a heavy, and at times neuralgia, pain
in one side of my head, but as it would come
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 inconveh-
fence. Yet, even as o physician, l did not
think that these things meant anything serl-
GUS lfancied l was suffering from ma,
| laria and doctored myself accordingly. But
l got no better. | next noticed a pecuiar
| color and odor about the fluids was pass
inr-also that there were large quantities
one day and very little the next, and That q
persistent froth and SCUM appeared on the
surface, and a sediment settled. And yeti
did not realize my danger, for, indeed, see
ing these symptoms continually, l hhally
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 l should have been so plind
| 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 q long list of ommon diseases, the
symptoms Of many of which | really had
In this way several years passed, during
L.L ...o ana ptenaIily growing worse.
Ny condition had really become pltlapIe'
The slight symptoms had at first expert,
enced were developed into terrible ana
constant disorders. Ny weight had been
reduced from 2O7 to 100 pounds. My lie
was a burden to myself and friends. lcould
retain no food on my stomach, and lived
wholly by injections. was a living mass
of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable 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 hiccoushs constant
". NV water was filled with tube-casts
and albumen. | was struggling VIII
Bright's Disease of the kidneys in its las
stagesl
w ullt ullN llE mus w ~"
my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Foote, at mat time
rector Of St Paulis Episcopal Church, o.
this city. IYelt thatit was our last Inter
view, but in the course Of conversation Or
! Foote detailed to nc the many remarkable
cures Of cases like my W which had eop'
under his observation. AS a practicinl
physician and a graduate of the schools,
derided tho idea of any medicine outside thu
r regular channels being in the least bene
+ fetal. So solicitous, however, was DR.
Foote, that l finally promised would waiv'
my prejudice. l began its use on the frs
day of June, 1881, and took it according t.
L directions. At first it sickened me; bu
: this | thought was a good sign for one II
my debilitated condition. l continued t
d take It; the sickening sensation departe,
S and | was finally able to retain food upoi
h my stomach. In a few days | noticed a dc
cided change for the better, as also did m
wife and friends. My hiccoughs cease
!. and l experienced less pain than formerly
! was so rejoiced Mt this improved conditIo
that, upon what had believed but a few day
before was my dying bed, l vowed, in tn
presence Of my family and friends, shout
d l recover, I would both publicly and pr
10 vately make known this remedy for tn
lie gooo OF humanity whe'ever auo MhoheN.
h had an opportunity ana Vnis ie.vcl Is
/; ful6llment Of that VOW. My improvement
10 wa constant from Una time, any III icy
m than three months hau gaiheu ~ punt
y, In fesh, became entirely iree from pam Il,
" l believe ! owe my NE ana present cohu
H. ton wholly 10 warmers Saie Oure' Ine rei
Oh edy which l used
IS, Since my recovery nave thoroughiy
investigated the suolect OF Kidney oii
SIS oulties ana brights disease, ana tne trut'
81 developed are astounolhg' l. tnerel9
re STATE, oehoerately' ana Us apnysiciah, IN
:, / believe more man one-nd9 Me dcdths Whi
occur IN America are causea DV br'9hts q
- ease or me k'dnebs' rms may SCUM IKE
u, rash statement, out am prepared 10 lql
III verify II. Brights disease mas no dlstineu'
wv features OF It's own, Indeed, IL often deve
W. ops without any pain whatever IN u
rer kldpeys or thelr VEinltyl put mas the sym
90 toms OF nearly every other common col
plant Hundreds OF people die daily, VINO
burials are authorized by D physicians 20
tlhcate Us occurring from Heart Disease
~, "Apoplexy,' Paralysis, Spinal Co
v" plant" "~Rheumatism, "fneuinonia," q