The Opelousas courier., 1891-03-28
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Ia remarkable Statement of Personal Da
GER and P~enEidantia Escnna

"Ae1N II Il oA4 O1A0 ~ . 81 CllQ a
able that we cannot excuse ourselves il we
do not lay 1T before our readers, entire.
To the Editor Rochester IN. VI Democrat:
SIE-On the first day of June, 1881, l 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, it a
few years previous any one had told me that
l was to be brought SO low, and by so ter
rible a disease, | should have scoffed at the
idea. liiaI always been uncommnnlY strong
and healthy, aud weighed over 200 pounds
and hardly knew, in my own experience.
what paIa 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 exceedingly
hungry one day and entirely without appetite
the next. This WAS just the way I felt when
the relentless malady which had fastened it.
self upon me first began. Still I thought
nothing Of it, that probably l had taken a
cold which would soon pass way. Shortly
after this | noticed 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, | paid little attention to it. Then my
stomach would get out OF order and nv
food often failed to digest, causing at times
2r6at inconvenience. Yet, even as a ply
stefan, l did not think that these things
meant anything serious. / fancied / was
suffering from malaria and doctored myself
accordingly. But [ got no better / next
noticed a peculiar color and odor about the
fluids I was passing-also that there were
large quantities one day and very little the
next, and that a persistent froth and scum
appeared on the surface, and a edImen
settled. And yet I did not realize my
danger. for, indeed, seeing these symptoms
continually, l finally became accustomed to
them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed
by the fact that | had no pain in the
affected organs or in their vicinity. Why [
should have been so blind | cannot under
stand.
| consulted the best medical skill in the
land. I visited all the famed mineral springs
in America and Travelled from Maine to
California. Still / 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-
tion of the base of the brain; and so on
through a long list of common diseases, the
symptoms of many of which 1 really had.
In this way several years passed, during
which time I was steadily growing worse.
My condition had really become pitiable.
The slight symptoms l had at first expert
enced were developed into terrible and con-
slant disorders. My weight had been re-
duced from 20T to $50 pounds. Ny life was
a burden to myself and friends. / could
retain no food on my stomach, and l 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 deadening
the pain. For six days and nights / had the
death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly.
NY water was filled with tube-casts and
albumen. I was struggling with Brights
disease of the kidneys In its last stagesi
While suffering thus | received O call from
my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Foote, at that time
rector of st. Pauis Episcopal Church, of this
city. felt that it was cur last interview,
but in the course of conversation DR.. Foote
detailed to me the many remarkable cures of
cases like my w 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 channels
being in the least beneficial. So solicitious,
however, was DIR. Foote, that I finally prom
ised [ would waive my prejudice. | began
it's use on the first day Of June, 1884, and
took it according to directions. At first it
sickened me: but this / thought was a good
sign for me in my debilitated condition. 1
continued to take it,; the sickening sensation
departed and I was finally able to retain food
upon my stomach. In a few days I noticed
q decided change for the better, as also did
my wife and friends. My hiccoughs ceased
and / experienced less pain than formerly. I
was SO rejoiced at this improved condition
that, upon what / had believed but a few
days before was my dying bed, / vowed i'm
the presence of my family and friends,
should I recover, l would both publicly and
privately make know this remedy for the
good of humanity, wherever ana whenever /
had an opportunity, and this letter is in full
fillnlent of that vow. My improvement was
constant from that time, and in less than
4hraa y,ov,&bc 7 hod croitsod fx,onfU-civ r1crry1dc
in flesh, became entirely free from pain and
/ believe I owe my life and present condition
wholly 10 Warmers Safe Cure, the remedy
which / used.
Since my recovery / have thoroughly re-
investigated the subject OF kidney difficulties
and Brights disease, and the truths devel-
oped are astounding. | therefore state, de-
liberately, and as q physician, that I believe
more than oue-haLf the deaths vhich occur
II, America are catsed By Bright's disease
OF the kidneys. This may sound like q rash
statement. but i am prepared to fully verify
it. Bright's disease has no distinctive feat
ures of it's own Indeed, it often develops
without any pain whatever in the kidneys or
their vicinity, but has the symptoms Of
nearly every other Common complaint.
Hundreds of people dis daily, whose burials
are authorized by a physicians certificate as
occurring from Heart Disease" Apo
plexy,n Paralysis Spinal Complaint" "
ESuSUilAblSLl, EE6ulHOula, AUu OtuGF
common complaints, when in reality 1t u
from Bright disease OF the kidneys. Few
physicians. and fewer people, realize the ex-
tent OF this disease or its dangerous and in
sldious naturs. 1t steals into the system like
a thief, manifests its prescnce il at all by the
commonesG symptoms and fastens itself in
the constitution before the victim is aware
of it. 1t is nearly as hereditary as consu,np-
ton, quite as common and fully as fatal.
Entire families, inhefiting it from their an
e~estors, have died, and yet none OF the num-
Der knew or realized the mysterious power
which was removing them. Instead of COM
mon symptoms it often shows none what
ever, but brings death suddenly, from con-
v~ulsions, apoplexy or heart disease. As one
who has suffered, and knows by its bitter ex-
perience what he says, ! imp1ore everyone
who reads these words not to neglect the
slightest symptoms of kidney difficulty. No
one ces1 afford to hazard such chances.
IaSssake the foregoing statements based
uptWSEacts which / can substantiats to the
iettep. The welfare of those who may pos
sibiy be sufferers such as I was, is an ample
inducement for ME to take the step I have,
and il I can successfully warn others from
the dangerous path in which I once walked.
/ am willing to endure all professional and
personal consequences.
r.. B. HENION, M. d.
ROCHESTER. N. Y. December 30.