The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-02-26
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement Of Personal
Danger and ProvidentiaI Escape.

cuse ourselves if we do not lay it be- |
fore our readers, entire.
To the Editor Rochester On. Y Dem
ocrat: ~
SIR-On the first day OF June, 1881, |
lay at my residence in this city sur
rounded by my friends and waiting for |
death. Heaven only knows the agony
then endured, for words can never
describe it. And yet if Il few years
previous any one had told me that |
was to be brought so low, and by so
terrible a disease should have scolfed
at the idea. ! had always been un-
commonly 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 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 began. Still |
thought nothing of it; that probably |
had taken 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 1 paid little attention to it.
Then my stomach would get out OF
order and my food often failed TO di-
gest causing ut times great inconveni-
ence. Yet even as physician, / did
not think that these things meant any
thing serious. / fancied | was suffer-
ing from malaria and doctored myself
accordingly. But l got no better.
next noticed q peculiar color and odor
about the fluids / was passing-also
that there were large quantities one
day and very little the next and that
persistent froth and scum appeared
on the surface and sediment settled.
And yet / did not realize my danger,
for, indeed, seeing these symptoms
continually, 1 finally became accus-
toned to them, and my suspicion 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 / cannot understand.
the land. ! visited all the famed min
eral springs in America and travelled
from Maine to California. Still ! grew
, worse. No two physicians agreed as
to my malady. One said l was trou-
! bled with spinal irritation; another,
dyspepsia; another heart disease; an
g other general debility; another, con-
2 gostion of the base OF the brain; and so
on through long list OF common dis
s eases, the symptoms of many of which
l l really had. In this way several years
3, passed. during which time l was stead
g lily growing worse. My condition had
L really become pitiable. The slight
l. symptoms | had at first experienced
| were developed into terrible and CON
slant disorders. My weight had beer
reduced from POI TO $50 pounds. My
= life was burden to myself and friends
l. l could retain no food on my stomach
# and lived wholly by injections. l wa
= living mass of pain. My pulse wa
O uncomfortable. In my agony | FIRE
@ quently fell TO the floor and clutche
the carpet and prayed for death. Nor
phine had little or no effect in deaden
ing the pain. For six days and night
! had the death premonitory hiccough
constantly. My water was filled wit
tube casts and albi.men. I was strue
. Cling with Brights Disease OF the kio
= neys in Its last stages!"
- While suffering thus l received
81 call from my pastor, the Rev. Dl
u Foote, at that time rector OF ST. Paul
10 Episcopal church, of this city. l fe
,o that it was our last interview but
:, the course of conversation DR.. Foot
of detailed to me the many remarkabl
10 cures of cases like my own which ha
II come under his observation. As a praC
or ticing physician and u graduate of tn
a. schools, l derided the idea Of any med
IN icine outside the regular channels be
ing in the least beneficial. So solicit
of GUS however, was DR.. Foote that
if finally promised l would waive m
T.. prejudice. l began its use on the fir
a. day OF June, 1881, and took it accorC
is ing to directions. At first it sickene
Up me; but this / thought was good sig
IN for one in my debilitated condition.
Oh continued to take it.; the sickening sci
n sation departed and ! was finally alb
~ to retain food upon my stomach
- In a few days | noticed decide
7 change for the better, as also did N
20 wife and friends. My hiccougl
st ceased and Experienced less pain tina
VS. formerly. was so rejoiced at tn
sh improved condition that, upon what
SIS had believed but a few days before WI
my dying bed, vowed. in the pre-
ne ence OF my family and friends. shoul
nd ! recover, i would both publicly an
De privately make known this remedy fC
I'd. The good of humanity, wherever an
nd whenever / had an opportunity, an
: IL this letter is in fulfillment of thatv
My improvement was constant fro
that time, and in less than thrc
months l had gained &c pounds
&c flesh. became entirely free from pal
and believe / owe my life and pre-
eu ent condition wholly to Warmers Sa
lat Cure the remedy which ! used.
he Since my recovery have thorough
a re-investigated the subject OF kidne
ar difficulties and Bright's disease, ar
- the truths developed are astounding
'i l therefore state, deliberately, and ;
snO u physician, that believe more thf
III one-half the deaths which occur
ag- America are caused by Bright's di
for ease of the kidneys. This may sour
,sl, like a rash statement but | am pr
pared to fully verify it. Bright's di
ease has no distinctive features OF