Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-14
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Sta tement of Personal Dam
ger and Providential Escape.

Remarkable Sta tement of Personal Dam
ger and Providential Escape.
The following story-which is attract
ing wide attention from the press-is so
remarkable that we cannot excuse our
selves if we do not lay it before our
readers, entire.
To the Editor Rochester (M " Democrat:
SIR. On the first day of June, 1881, 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 yet, if a
few years previous any one had told me
that was to be brought so low, and by 80
terrible 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 a cold which would
soon pass away Shortly after this l no
ticed 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 my food often failed to
digest, causing at times great inconven-
ience. Yet even as physician, did not
think that these things meant anything seri-
Gus. l fancied | was suffering from ma
laria and doctored myself accordingly. But
j got no better. l 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 a
persistent froth and scum appeared on the
surface, and a sediment settled And yet l
did not realize my danger, for, indeed, see
ing these symptoms continually, l finally
became accustomed to them, and my suspi-
cion was wholly disarmed by the fact that I
had no pain in the affected organs or in their
vicinity Why l 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 I 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 long list of common diseases, the
symptoms of many OF which l 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 | had at first expert
enced were developed into terrible and
constant disorders. My weight had been
reduced from 207 to 130 pounds My life
was burden to myself and friends. Icould
retain no food on my 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 tube-casts
and albumen. I was struggling with
Bright's Disease of the kidneys in its last
stages!
While suffering thus Ireceived call from
my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Foote, at that time
rector of st Paurs Episcopal Church, of
this city. l felt that it was our last inter-
view 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 a graduate Of the schools, l
derided the idea of any medicine outside the
regular channels being in the least bene-
fetal So solicitous, however, was DR..
Foote, that finally promised would waive
my prejudice. l began it's use on the first
ofT Nd IN
directions At first it sickened me; but
this thought was good sign for one in
my debiltated condition. l continued to
take it; the sickening sensation departed
and l was finally able to retain food upon
my stomach. In few days noticed de-
cided change for the better, as also did my
wife and friends. My hiccoughs ceased
and experienced less pain than formerly.
was SO rejoiced at this improved condition
that, upon what had believed but few days
before was my dying bed, vowed, in the
presence of my family and friends, should
recover, l 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 26 pounds
in flesh, became entirely free from pain and
believe owe my life and present condi-
ton wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the rem
edy which ] used.
Since my recovery have thoroughly re-
investigated the subject of kidney diff
culties and Bright's disease, and the truths
developed are astounding | therefore
state, deliberately, and as a physician, that
I believe more than ons-hdlf the deaths tohtch
Occur. in America are caused By Brighps dis
ease Of the kidneys. This may sound like a
rash statement, but am prepared to fully
verify it. Brights disease has no distinctive
features of it's 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 physician's GER
tificate as occurring from ''Heart Disease"
s'Apoplexy,'' Paralysis, Spinal Com
plant" .sRheumatism, Pneumonia" and
other common complaints, when in reality
it is from Bright's 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 thief, manifests its presence
if at all by the commonest symptoms and
fastens itself in the constitution before the