Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement of Personal Dan
ger and Providential Escape.

ger and Providential Escape.
The following story-which is attract
ing wide attention from the press-iss so
remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves If we do not lay it before our
readers, entire.
TO the Editor Rochester On p, Democrat.
SIR On the first day of June, 1881, Ilay
at my residence in this CITY surrounded Nv
my friends and waiting for death. Heaven
only knows the agony then endured, for
words can never describe it. And vet if a |
few years previous any one had told me |
that was to be brought so low and nv so /
terrible disease, should have scoffed at |
the idea I had always been uncommonlv |
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 / thought nothing of it: that
probably had taken a cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly after this I no.
ticed heavy, and at times neuralgic pain
in one side of my head, but as it would come
one day and be gone the next, 1 paid little
attention to it Then my stomach 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-
Gus. fancied was suffering from ma
laria and doctored myself accordingly But
got no better. / next noticed a 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
persistent froth and scum appeared on the
| surface, and a sediment settled And yet
did not realize my danger, for, indeed, see
| ing these symptoms continually, / finally
became accustomed to them, and my suspi-
clon 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 understand.
| I consulted the best medical skill in the
land. 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-
| ton of the base of the brain; and so on
through a long lis of common diseases, the
| symptoms of ma.- of which l really had
In this way several years passed, during
| which time was 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 100 pounds. My life
was burden to myself and friends. Icould
| 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 no fleet in deaden-
| ing the pain. For six days and nights had
the death premonitory hiccoughs constant
ly. My water was filed with tube-casts
and albumen. 1 was struggling with
Bright's Disease of the kidneys in its last
stagesI
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 inter
| view, but in the course Of conversation DR.
| Foote detailed to me the many remarka BILE
cures Of cases like my own which had come
/ under his observation. AS a practicing
physician and graduate of the schools, ]
| derided the idea of any medicine outside the
regular channels being in the least bene-
| fetal. So sOlicitous, however, was DIR
Foote, that finally promised would waive
| my pref udice- l began its use on the first
day of June, 1881, and took it according tC
| directions. At first it sickened me; but
| this l thought was a good sign for one in
! my debilitated condition. i continued II
take it; the sickening sensation departed
| and was finally able to retain food upon
| my stomach. In few days noticed a de
| cided change for the better, as also did my
| wife and friends. Ny hiccoughs ceased
and experienced less pain than formerly.
| Twas SO rejoiced at this improved condition
that, upon what had believed but a few days
before was my dying bed, 1 vowed, in the
| presence of my family and friends, should
| I recover, I would both publicly and pri-
| vately make known this remedy for the
! good of humanity, wherever and whenever
| had an opportunity, and this letter is in
| fulfllment of that VOW. My Improvement
| was constant from that time, and in less
| than three months had gained Is pounds
| in flesh, became entirely free from pain and
believe 1 owe my life and present condi-
| ton wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the rem
| edy which used.
Since my recovery I have thoroughly re-
investigated the subject OF kidney diff
! culties and Bright's disease, and the truths
| developed are astounding. I therefore
| state, deliberately, and physician. that
| believe more than one-hdlf the DEATHS trhich
occur in America are caused by Br.1hts DIS
| ease of the kidneys. This may sound like a
rash statement, but am prepared to fully
| verify it. Bright's disease has no distinctive
features of its own, Indeed, it often devel-
| ops without any pain whatever IN the
| kidneys or their vicinity but has the symp-
toms of nearly every other common COM
plant Hundreds of people die daily, whose
| burials are authorized by physicians GER
tificate as occurring from Heart Disease"
| sApoplexy.' ''Paralysis,' "Spinal Com
| plaint,'' rheumatism - pneumonia and
| other common compla nts, when in reality
| it is from Brights disease Of the kidneys
| Few physicians, and fewer people, realize
the extent of this disease or its dangerous
| and insidious nature. 1t steals into the
| system like a thief, manifests its presence
| if at all by the commonest symptoms and
| fastens itself in the constitution before the
| victim is aware of it 1t is nearly as hered-
| itary as consumption. quite as common and
| fully as fatal Entire families, inheriting it
| from their ancestors, have died. and YET none
| of the mum Der knew or realized the mysteri-
GUS power which was removing them In
| stead of common symptoms it often shows
| none whatever, but brings death suddenly,
from commissions, apoplexy, or heart dis
| ease AS one who has suffered, and knows
| by bitter experience what he says, i'm
| plore everyone who reads these words not
| to neglect the slightest symptoms OF Kidney
/ difficulty. No one can afford to hazard sucn
chances.
| I make the foregoing statements based
upon facts which can substantiate to the