Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-05
A rnRInLINa BxpERIExoE.
Remarkable Statement of Personal Dan
ger and Providential Escape.


The following story-which is attract
ing wide attention from the prcss-is 81
remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves If we do not lay il before on
readers, entire:
10 the Editor Rochester IN. ~ Demo
crdt-SIR; On the LIST day of June, 1881
| lay at my residence in this city sur
rounded by my friends and waiting fol
death. Heaven only knows the agony
then endured, for words can never de
scribe it. And yet, if a few years pre-
vious any one had told me that ! was 70
be brought so low, and by so terrible
disease, | should have scoffed Mt Tho
idea. i had always been uncommonly
strong and healthy, and weighed over
200 pounds, and hardly knew, in my
own experience, what pain or sickness
were. Very many people who read
this statement realize at times that they
are unusually tired and cannot account
for it. They feel dull pains in variou:
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 the way
| felt when the relentless malady which
had fastened itself upon me first began.
Still | thought nothing of it; that prob.
ably | had taken a cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly after this
noticed n heavy, and at times neuralgia
| pain in one side of my head, but as il
would come one day and be gone the
next, paid little attention to it. Then
my stomach would get out of order, and
my food often failed to digest, causing al
/ tirnap
as physician, did not think that these
things meant anything serious. fancied
| was suffering from malaria and doc
tored myself accordingly. But got no
better. l next noticed peculiar color
and odor about the fluids ! was passing
also that there We're large quantities
one day and very little the next, and
that persistent froth or scum appeared
on the surface, and Il sediment settled,
And yet not realize my danger, for
indeed, seeing these symptoms continu-
ally, | finally became accustomed to
them, and my suspicion was wholly dis
armed by the fact that had no pain in
the affected organs or in their vicinity.
Why ! should have been so blind can
not understand.
consulted the best medical skill in
the land. | visited all the famed min
eral springs in America and travelled
from Maine to California. Still grew
worse. No two physicians agreed as to
my malady. One said I was troubled
with spinal irritation; another, dyspep-
sla; another, heart disease; another, gem
eral debility; another, congestion of the
base OF the brain; and so on through n
long list of common diseases, the symp-
toms OF many of which | really had. In
this way several years passed, during
which time | was steadily growing
worse My condition had really be.
come pitiable. The slight symptoms |
had at first experienced were developed
into terrible and constant disorders. NV
weight had been reduced from 207 to
1870 pounds. My life was burden to
myself and friends. could 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 deadening the pain. For six days
and nights had death premonitory hic-
coughs constantly. My water was
filled with tube-casts and albumen.
was struggling with Brights Disease of
the Kidneys in its last stagesl
While suffering thus received call
from my pastor, the Rev. DIR. Foote, at
that time rector of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church of this city. felt that it was
our last interview, but in the course of
conversation DIR. Foote detailed to me
the many remarkable cures of cases like
my own which had come under his
observation. AS a practicng physician
and graduate of the schools, derided
the idea of any medicine outside the
regular channels being in the least
beneficial. So solicitous, however, was
Dr. Foote, that | finally promised |
would waive my prejudice. | began its
use on the first day of June, 1881, and
took it according to directions. AT first
It sickened me; but this thought was a
good sign for one in my debilitated CON
dition. | continued TO take it; the sick
ening sensation departed and ] was
finally able to retain food upon my
stomach. In few days noticed de-
clded change for the better, as also did
my wife and friends. My hiccoughs
ceased and L experienced less pain than
formerly. ] was so rejoiced at this inn
proved condition that, upon what had
believed but few days before was my
dying bed, vowed, in the presence Of
my family and friends, should recover,
l would both publicly and privately
make known this remedy for the good
of humanity, wherever and whenever
had an opportunity, and this letter is in
fultillment of that VOW. NV improve
Innnt ont frnt,, In4
in less than three months | had gained
~ pounds in flesh, became entirely free
from pain and | believe | owe my life
and present condition wholly to War
ner's Safe Cure, the Remedy which used.
since my recovery have thoroughly
re-lnvestigated the subject of kidney
difficulties and Bright's disease, and the
truths developed are astounding.
therefore state, deliberately, and as
physician, that | believe more than one
half the deaths which occur in America
are caused by Brights disease of the
kidneys. This may sound like a rash
statement, but am prepared to fully
verify it. Bright's disease has no dis
tinctive features of its own Gndeed, it
often develops without any pain what
ever in the kidneys or their vicinity but
has the symptoms of nearly every other
common complaint. Hundreds of peo-
Pile die daily, whose burals are author
lied by a physicians certificate as occur
ring from "heart disease" "appoplexy,"
paralysis" spinal complaint, "rheu-
matism, b" pneumonia" and other COM
mon complaints, when in reality it is
from Brights disease of the kidneys.
Few physicians, and fewer people, real
i've the extent of this disease or its dan
gerous and insidious nature 1t steals
into the system like thief, manifests its