Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-02-21
4 THRILLiNo EXPERIENCE.

/ a THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
asmsriabis statsaenE u rsisoMaa nac
Scr and Providential Escape.
! TIE following story-which II attract
ing wide attention from the press-isAo
remarkable that we cannot excuse our.
selves II we do not lay it before our
Seadcrs, entire.
10 tAs Editor Rochssssr IN ~ Demoarats
SIR On the FIRST day Of June, 1881, IN
at my residence In this city surrounded b.
my friends and waiting for death. Heaven
only knows the agony then endured, for
words can never describe it. And yet, = D
rev years previous any one had told ms
that was to be brought so low, and by 70
terrible disease, should have scofed at
the idea. had always been uncommonly
strong and healthy, and weighed over 200
pounds and hardly know, in my own expert
ence, what pain or sickness were. Very
many people who will read this statement
realize ut times that they are unusually
tired and cannot account for it. They feel
dull pains in various parts OF the body and
90 not understand why. Or they are ex.
ceedangly hungry one day and entirely
without appetite the next This was just
the way felt when the relentless malady
which had fastened itself upon mo first be-
gan Still thought nothing Of 1t; that
| probably had taken q cold which would
soon pass away. Shortly after this no.
| ticed a heavy, and Mt times neuralgia, pain
In one side of my head, but rs it would come
| one day and DO gone the next, paid little
attention to it. Then my stomach would got
out OF order and my food often failed to
| digest, causing ut times great inconven.
| fence. Yet, even as physician, did not
think that these things meant an thing seri.
GUS fnncied was suffering from ma
laria and doctored myself accordingly. But
| got no better. I next noticed q peculiar
| color and odor about the fluids was pass
| tng-also that there were large quantities
| one day and very little the next, and that
persistent froth and scum appeared IN the
| surface, and n sediment settled. And yet I
did not realize my danger, for, indeed. sec
ing these symptoms continually, finally
became accustomed to them, and my suspi-
cion was wholly disarmed by the fact that
had no pain in the affected organs or in their
vicinity. Why should have been Sc blind
cannot understand.
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. Ono |
raid was troubled with spinal irritation;
another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease; |
another, general debility; another conges-
.tion of the base Of the brain; and SO on
through long list of common diseases, tho
symptoms of many Of which l really had
which time was steadily growing worse.
My condition had really become ptiable.
The slight symptoms had at firss expert
enced We're developed into terrible and
constant disorders. My weight had peen
reduced from 2O7 to 100 pounds. NV life
was burden to myself and friends: Icouid
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. l was struggling with
Bright's Disease of the kidneys in its last
stages!
While suffering thus received a call from
my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Footc, at that tme
rector of St P.uls Episcopal Church, OF
this city. felt that it was our last inter. [
view, but in the course of conversation DR..
Footc detailed to me tho many remarkable J
cures OF cases like my own which had como :
lnder his observation. As practicing
ysician and a graduate of the schools, I
1erlded the idea of any medicine outside thj @
ocular channels being in the least bene
icial. 80 solicitous, however, was DR. {,
'oote that finally promised would waive
ny prejudice. began its use on the firss
lay ofJure, 1881, and took it according to Il
directions. At first it sickened me; but
his thought was good sign for one In O
ny debilitated condition. continued to Q
AXE it; tho sickening sensation departed
nd was finally able to retain food upon
~ stomach. In few days noticed de p
ided change for the better, as also did my r.
life and friends. My hiccoughs ceased
nd experienced less pain than formerly. J
was SO rejoced ct this improved condition n
nat, upon what had believed but a few day,
efore was my dying bed, l vowed, in tt, =,
resence Of my family and friends, should u
recover, l would both publicly and pIi- RI
ately make known this remedy for tbs
pod of humanity, wherever and whenever Y
FAD an opportunity, and this letter is IL ,,
,lhllment OF that vow. My Improvement
as constant from that time, and in less
ian three months had gained % pounds re
flesh, became entirely free from pain and In
believe owe my life and present condi-
on wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the rem w
ly which used o.
Since my recovery have thoroughly re- | ~
vestigated tho subject of kidney diff y
lilies and Bright's disease, and the truths
veloped are astounding. 1 therefore re
ate, deliberately, and rs a physician, that is
believe more than one-halr the d-a,hs trhtch sa
cur in America arc caused by Br;1hts dis
Sc of the kidneys. This may sound like q
sh statement, but am prepared to fully | -
rify IL. Bright's disease has no distip ctive | 90
,tures of its own, Indeed, it often devel- ar
s without any pain whatever in the
lHeyS OF bnelr SiClnlty) OUT mas the Symp | CT
ms of nearly every other common COM Sc
lint. Hundreds of people die daily, whose a.
rails are authorized by PHYSICIANS cor %,
cate occurring from Heart Disease TX
Ipoplexy," 'Paralyss," "Spinal Com uc
lint" "Rheumatism ~ ..Pneumonia," and phi
Ter common compla nts, when in reality DC
s from Bright's disease Of the kidneys. -
W physicians, and fewer people, realizs q
extent of this disease or it's dangerous M
1 insidious nature. 1t steals into the
stem like u thief, manifests its presence
at all by the commonest symptoms and
tens itself in the conStitut ton before the