The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14
A THRILLING EXPERIENCES.
Remarkable Statement of Personal Dam
ger and ProyidentiaI E.cana

ger and Providential Escape.
The following story-which is attract.
ing wide attention from the press-issu
remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves if we do not lay it before our
readers, entire.
To the Editor Rochester (X ~ DrmoerH:
SIR On the first day Of June, 1881, 1 lay
at my residence In this city surrounded BY
my friends and waiting for death. Heaven
only knows the agonyI then endured, for
words can never describe it And yet, if q
few years previous any one had told me
that / was to be brought so low, and by so
terrible a disease, l should lave 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 time 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 eH-
ceedingly hungry one day and entirely
without appetite the next. This was Just
the way l felt when the relentless malady
which had fastened itself upon me first be-
gan. Still l thought nothing of it; that
probably l had taken q cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly after this / no.
ticed a heavy, and at times neuralgia, pain
in one sid 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
on: Of order and my food often failed to
digest, causing at times great %inconven-
fence. Yet, even as a physician, | did not
think that these things meant anything seri-
GUS l fancied l was suffering from ma
laria and dOctored myself accordingly. But
l got no better. l next noticed a peculiar
color and odur about the fluids / was pass
ing-also that there were large quantities
one day and very little the next. and tina a
persistent froth and scum appeared on the
surface, and a sediment settled. And yet l
did not realize my danger, for, indeed, sec
ing these symptoms continually, l finally
became accustomed to them, and my suspi-
cion was wholly disarmed by the fact thai /
had no pain in the affected organs or in their
vicinity. Why | should have been so blind
l annot understand
consulted the best medical skill in the
land. l visited all the famed mineral springs
in America and travcIed from Maine 10
California. Still l grew worse. No two
physicians agreed as to my malady. One
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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 | 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 2J7 to $50 pounds. Ny life
vas a burden 10 myself and friends. IcOuld
retain no food on mg stomach. and 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 deaden
ing the pain. For six days and nights | had
the death premonitory hiccOuGhs constant
ly. My water was filled with tubc-clsts
and albumen. l was struggling with
Brights Disease of the kidneys in Its last
SflpnS,
While suffering thus Ireceived a call from
my pastor, the Rev. DR.. FOotc. at that time
rector of st PLul's Episcopal Church, of
this city. / felt that it was or last inter
view. but in the course If conversation DR.
FOote detailed 10 me the many remarkable
cures of cases like my WI which had come
under his observation As a practicing
physician and Il graduate of tine schools, l
deridcd the idea of any medicine outside the
regular channels being in the least bcnc-
fetal. So snlicit0us, however, was DIR.
FoOte. that | finally promised would waive
prejudice. / began its use on the first
.lat- nf luna IsSI prti sanI- IL u.srnriTnr Il
directions. At first 1T sickeucd me; but
this | thought WAS Il god sgn for one il
my debilitated condition. l continued I"
take it; the sickening sensation departed
and | was finally able To retain food upoa
my stomach. In IA few days | noticed y DE
cided change for the better. as also dill my
wife and friends. My hiccouEhs Ceased
and | experienced less pIln than forrlcrly.
| was so ~rejOired at this improved condition
that, upon what | had believed but Il fe y days
before was my dying bel. l vowed, in III"
presence OF my family and friends. SHOULD
| rerover. | would both publicly and pr
vately make known this remedy for Tia.
good Of humanity, wherever and whenever
| had IN opportunity, and this letter is in
fulfllmcnt Of that VOW. Ny improvement
was constant from that time, aud in less
than three months / had gained 2j pounds
in flesh, became ent rely free from pain and
| believe | owe my life and present condi
ton wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the rem
cdy which ] used.
Since my recovery l have thoroughly re- |
investigated the subject OF kidney dihi
culties and Bright's disease, and the truths
developed are astounding. | therefore
state, deliberately, and rs a physician, that
| believe mare than Ons-hd'f The Il abs trbich
occur IN America arc cnHsci by Br lht's DIS. |
r1s> NJ He kidneB.. This may sound like a
statement, but am prepared TO fully
verify il. Bright's disease has no distinctive
of its own, Indeed, il often devcl-
Fps without any pain whatever in the
kidneys or their vicinity but has the syInp-
tOms OF nearly very other common ON
Hundreds Of people die daily, whose
Iurials are authorized b. u physici ms Ger
.ificate as occurring from Heart Disease"
'Paralysis.' 'Spinal Com
l." "Eheumatism, - ''PneumOnia," and
common cDmpla nts, when in real iy
I is from Bright's disease of the kidneys.
physicians, and fewer people, realize
he extent of this disease or Us dangerous
nd insidious nature. II steals into the
ystem like n thief, manifests its presence
I at all by the commonest symptoms and
itself In the constitution before the
is aware of it 1t is nearly as hcrei-
tary as consumption, quite as common and
ully as fatal. Entire families, inheritingit
rom their ancestors, have died, and yet none
4 the number knew or realized the mysteri-
us power which was removing them. In
tead Of common symptoms il often shows
Ione whatever, but brings death suddenly,
rom commissions, apoplexy, or heart dis
ase As one who has suffered, and knows
" bitter experience what he says, l i'm
lore everyone who reads these words not
o neglect the slightest symptoms of. kidney
ificulty. No one can affordto hazard such
hances.
/ make the foregoing statements based
pom facts which | can substantiate u the
The welfare OF those vino may pos
IDLY be sufferers suchas Twas, is an ample
nducement for me TO take the step j have.
nd if / can successfully warn others from
he dangerous path in which ] once walked.
am willing to endure all professional and