The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-02-20
a THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Statement of Personal Dan"
ger and PrOvidential Escape.

remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves if we do not lay it before our
readers, entire.
| To the Editor Rochester IN y Democrat:
| SIR On the first day of June, 1881, / lay
| at my residence in this city surrounded by
! myfriends and waiting for death Heaven
| only knows the agony then endured, for
words can never describe it. And yet, II q
| few years previous any one had told me
that | was to be brought so low, and by SO
terrible a disease should have scoffed at
the idea l 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 and 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 l thought nothing OF it; that
probably had taken cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly after this l no
ticed heavy, and at times neuralgia, pain
in one side of my head, but as it would como
enc day and be gone the next, l paid little
attention to it. Then my stomach would get
out of order and Ray food often failed to
digest, causing at times great inconven-
fence. Yet, even as physician, did not
think that these things meant anything seri-
Gus. fancied was suffering from ma
lara and doctored myself accordingly. But
got no better 1 next noticed peculiar
color and odor about the fluids was pass
ing-also that there were large quantities
one day and very little the next and that a
iStn
surface and sediment settled And yetk
| did not realize my danger, for, indeed, see
, ing these symptoms continually, l finally
became accustomed to them, and my suspl-
ciou was wholly disarmed by the fact that
had no pain in the affected organs or in their
; vicinity. Why l should have been SO blind
l cannot understand.
} | consulted the best medical skill In the
. land. visited all the famed mineral springs
, in America and Travelled from Maine to
I California. Still / grew worse No two
physicians agreed as to my malady. One
said was troubled with spinal irritation;
u another dyspepsia: another, heart disease;
L another, general debility; another conges-
p ton of the base of the brain; ana so on
G through long list of common diseases, the
r. symptoms of many of which / really had
l.. In this way several years passed, during
Il which time was steadily growing worse
. NV condition had really become pitlable.
-. The slight symptoms had at first expert
i enced were developed into terrible and
y constant disorders. My weight had been
2 reduced from 207 to 100 pounds. My Life
Is was burden to myself and friends lcould
D retain no food on my stomach, and lived
Il wholly by injections. was living mass
,, Of pain. My pulse was uncontroslabe. In
!, my agony frequently fell to the floor ana
- clutched the carpet, and prayed for death
Morphine had little or no effect in deaden-
d. ing the pain For six days and nights had
" the death -premonitory hiccoughs constant
u w. My water was filled with tube-casts
1e and albumen. l was struggling with
=, Bright's Disease of the kidneys in its last
ri stages!
If While suffering thus Ireceived call from
-, my pastor, the Rev DR.. Foote, at that time
~ rector of St Paups Episcopal Church, OF
in this citv. felt that it was our last inter-
ne view, but in the course of conversation Dr.
id Foote detailed to me the many remarkable
r. cures of cases like my own which had come
ne under his observation. AS practlclng
or physician and a graduate OF the schooiS,
IA derided the idea of any medicine outside the
- regular channels being in the least bene-
III fetal. SO solctous, however, was Dr.
II, Foote, that finally promised would waive
III my prejudice. ] began its use on the hrst
day of June, 1881, and took it according 70
directions At first it sickened me; but
this thought was q good sign Tor one In
nr nv debilitated condition. l continued tt
take it; the sckenng sensation departed
II and | was finally ablO to retain food upoT
nv stomach In a few days noticed a de
II cided change for the better, as also dld my
wife and friends. My hiccoughs ceased
and experienced less pain than formerly
no was so rejoiced at this improved condition
ne that, upon what HAD believed but Il Few Gays
before was my dying bed, vowed, in tn
as presence of my family and Trends, shouie
of recover | would both publicly and pri
yately make known this remedy Tor TN
good OF humanity, wherever and wheneve
'N' I had an opportunity, and this letter is IL
Ill fulfillment of that vow. Ny improvement
was constant from that time, and in les
err than three months had gained 26 pounds
;tv- in flesh, became entirely free from PAIN an
believe owe my life and present condl
the lion wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the rem
ost edy which used.
Since nv recovery have thoroughly re
D. investigated the subject OF kidney dl1
~ cultles and Bright's disease, and the truth
40 developed are astounding. tnerelor
eli state deliberately, and Us a physician, ths
believe more than ons-hdlf the d'Gths Whlc
of occur in AmericG are caused By Br qht' 8 an
MS ,nse of the kid,tcus This may sound ike
nd rash statement, but am prepared TO 1uil
nan verify it, Brght's disease has no distinct'V
features of it's own, Indeed, it often devel
-. ops without any pain whatever IN I'll
le kidneys or their vicinity but has the SYM
on toms Of nearly every other common con
You plant Hundreds Of people die daily, who's
it burials are authorized by % physicians eel
and tifcate as occurring from "Heart Disease
Get "t.noplcxy," paralysis" "Spinal Con
plaint," "Rheumatism," "Pneumonla, an
.ra other common compla nts, when IN realI'
or it is from Brights disease of the kidney
ue" Few physicians, and fewer people, realli
the the extent of this disease or its dangero'
con- and insidious nature. 1t steals into u
and system like thief, manifests its presen
sion if at all by the commonest symptoms NJ
nor fastens itself in the constitution before u
victim is aware OF it. 1t is nearly as here
~. itary as consumption, quite as common al
',l' fully as fatal Entire families, inheriting
~ from their ancestors, have died, and yet no
Ihat Of tho number knew or realized tho pnyster
Lrm, ,us power which was removing them. Il
ONE tead Of common symptoms it often sho'
ally none whatever, but brings death student
.ter from commissions, apoplexy, or boarC q