The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-02-13
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.



do not lay it before our readers entire
To the Editor Rochester Nv. " Democrat:
SIR-On the first day of June, 1881, l lay
at my residences in this city surrounded by
my friends and waiting for DEATH Heaven
only knows the agony l then endured, for
words can never describe it. Aud vet, if a
lew years previous any one had told me that
l was to be brought SO low, and by SO ter
rible disease. L should have scoffed at the
idea. hal 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 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
the next. This was just the way / felt when
the relentless malady which had fastened it.
self upon me first began. Still 1 thought
nothing of it, that probably had taken a
cod which @ would soon pass away, Shortly
neuralgia. pain in one side of my head, but
as 1t would come one day and be gone the
next, paid little attention to 1T. Then my
stomach would get out of order and my
food often failed to digest causing at times
sician, i did not think that these things
meant anything serious. l fancied l was
suffering from malaria and doctored myself
accordingly But got no better 1 next
fluids 1 was passing---also that there were
large quantities one day and very little the
NEXT and that . P~-siste~~ A-e>..----i---~y--
appeared on the surface, and a SEDIMENT
settled. And yet did not realize my
danger, for, Indeed, seeing these symptoms
continually, finally became accustomed to
them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed
by the fact that l had no pain in the
affected organs or i'm their vicinity. Why l
should have been SO blind l cannot under
stand
l consulted the best MEDICAL skill in the
land. l 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 a long list of common diseases, the
symptoms of many of which 1 really had
In this way several years passed, during
which time l 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 201 to 130 pounds. My life was
burden to myself and friends. l could
retain no food on my stomach, and l lived
wholly by injections. was living mass
OF pain. My pulse was uncomfortable. In
my agony l frequently fell to the floor aud
clutched the carpet, and prayed for death
the pain. For six days and nights had the
Z, death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly.
My water was filled with tube-casts and
albumen. l was struggling with Brights
| disease of the kidneys in its last stagesi
While suffering thus l 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 DR.. Foote
detailed to me the many remarkable cures of
cases like my own which had come under his
| observation. AS a practicing physician and
graduate of the schools, 1 derided the idea
| of any medicine outside the regular channels
| being in the least beneficial. So solicitious,
however, was DR.. Foote, that finally prom
ised l would waive my prejudice. | began
| its use on the first day Of June, 1881, and
took it according to directions. At first 1t
sickened me: but this | thought was a good
continued to take it; the sickening sensation
departed and was finally able to retain food
upon my stomach. In a few days noticed
my vile and lsndsa dar The better q sls0 siS
and experienced less pain than formerly.
was SO rejoiced at this improved condition
that, upon what I had believed but few
days before was my dying bed, l vowed In
should recover, 1 would both publicly and
| privately make know this remedy for the
good of humanity, wherever and whenever
had an opportunity, and this letter is in full
| hhIhchO VI thdt VOW. MY lIupTOVemenG wal
constant from that time. and in less than
three months bad gained twenty-six pound.
| In flesh, became entirely free from pain and
believe / owe my life and present condition
wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the remedy
| which used
| Since my recovery l have thoroughly re-
investigated the subject OF kidney difficulties
and Brights disease, and the truths devel
oped are astounding. therefore state, de
hberately, and as a physician, that believe
| fhnn bnIf ba 1anfbo b,,bo
IN America are caused or BrighGs diseas,
| OJ the kidneys. This may sound like rasf
statement. but am prepared to fully verify
| 1t. Bplghts disease has no distinctive feat
without any pain whatever in the kidneys OF
their vicinity, but has the symptoms ol
nearly every other common complaint
Hundreds OF people die daily, whose burial.
oesurrns feo by Psyrt
PIiety," Paralysis" Spinal Complaint,
common complaints. when in reality 1t
rom Bright disease of the kidneys. Few
| physlcians. and fewer people, realize the ex.
teht OF this disease or it's dangerous and in.
sn,ous nature. 1t steals into the system like
Siri, n,ahilests its presence il at all by the
eoniinonest symptoms and fastens itself in
I.e constitution before the victim is aware
! OF IL. III Is nearly as hereditary as consumn.
TEnn, quite as common and fully as fatal
%nn.lre % FAMILIES, inheriting it from their an.
cest1rs have died, and yet none of the mum.
Der knew or realized the mysterious mower
which was removing them. Instead az com
mon symptoms it often shows none what.
ever, but brings death suddenly, from con.
Vuisions, aPoplexy or heart disease. AS one
VINO mas suffered, and knows by it's bitter cx
| Perlence what he says, l impiore EVERYONE
VINO reads these words not to neglect the
slghtest symptoms OF kidney difficulty. Nc
one can afford to hazard such chances
make the foregoing statements based
letter. The welfare of those who NAV nos
sloly be sufferers such as was, is an annie
inducement for me to take the step bove
ana II can successfully warn Others from
the dangerous path In which once walked
personal consequences '"0
J. r. HENION M n