The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-06-06
A THRILLING EXPERIENCR.
Remarkable Statement of Personal Dan
ger and Providsntial Escape.

The following sto-y-which Is attracting
wide attention from the press-is so remark
able that we cannot excuse ourselves if we
do not lay 1t before our readers. entire.
To the Editor Rochester IN. u Democrat:
SIR-On the first day of June 1881, Law
Mt nv 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. Aud yet, e
few years previous any one had told me that
I was to be brought SO low. and by SO ter
ribie a 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 experience.
what pain or sickness were. Very many
people who will read this statement realizs
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 l felt when
the relentless malady which had fastened it
self upon me first began. Still thought
nothing of it that probably had taken a
cold which would soon pass away. Shortly
after this noticed q 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 1t. Then my
stomach would got out OF order and my
food often failed to digest, causing at times
stefan, / did not think that these things
meant anything serious. l fancied I was
suffering from malaria and doctored myself
accordingly. But got no better l next
noticed peculiar color and oior about the
fluids l 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 a sediment
settled. And yet 1 did not realizs my
danger. for, indeed, seeing these symptoms
continually, l finally became accustomed to
them. and my suspicion was wholly diSarmed
by the fact that l had no pain in the
affected organs or in their vicinity. Why l
should have been so blind / cannot under
stand
| consulted tho best medical skill in the
land. 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 mala iy. One
said l was troubled with spinal irritation;
another, dyspepsia: another, lie ri disease
another. general debility; another conges-
ton Of the base OF the brain; AMI so on
through a long list Of common diseases, the
symptoms of many of which 1 really had.
In this way several years passei, during
which time | was steadily growing worse
My condition had really become pitiable
The slight symptoms | bad at first experi-
enced were developed into terrible ami con-
slant disorders. My weight had been re-
duced FROM 201 10 100 pounds. My life was
a burden TO myself and friends l could
retain no food on my stomach, and l lived
wholly by injections L was a living nass
Of pain. My pulse was uncomfortable. In
my agony l frequently fell to the floor and
clutched the carpet, and prayed for death.
Morpo inc had little or no effect in deadenius
the pain. For six days and nights had the
death premonitory hiccourhs CONSTANTLY.
NY water was filed with tuhe-casts and
aibumen. l was struggling with Brights
disease of the kidneys III its lass stages,
While suffering thus | received call from
my pastor, the Rev. DR.. Foote. at that time
rector of st. Pauis Episcopal Church, OF this
city. felt that it was our last interview,
but in the course o: conversation DR.. Foote
detailed to me the many re .darkabis cures Of
cases like my own which had come under his
observation. as practicing physician and
a graduate of the SCHOOLS, l deriied the idea
of any medicine o1.sile the regular C lannelS
being in the least beneficial. SO soicitiOus,
however, was DR.. Foote. that finally prom
lsed would waive my prelu tica. | began
its use on the frs: day of June, 1851, and
took it according to directions. At first il
sckeped me; but this thought was a good
sign for me in my Gebiitated condition. ]
continued to take 1t; the sciseniny sensation
departed and was finally able to retain food
upon my stomach. in few days noticed
n decided change for the better. as also did
my wife and friends. My hiccou rus ceased
and 1 experienced less pam than formerly. /
was so rejoced at this improved coalition
that, upon what 1 had believed but few
days before was my dying bed | vowed in
the presence of my family an! friends,
should recover, L would both publicly and
privately maze know this renaiy for thu
good of humanity, wherever ana whenever
had an opportunity, ami this letter is in full
fillment OF that vow. My Improvement was
from fhatt finn, L.
three months had gained twenty-six pounds
In flesh, became entirely free from pain and
beheve L owe my life and present condition
wholly to Warmers Safe Cure, the remedy
which USE.
Since my recovery / have thoroughly re-
Investigated the subject o. kidney difficulties
AMI Bright's diseis", ami the truths devel-
opod are astounding. therefore state. de-
liberately, and as a physici III, that believe
more than One-h1lf the deaths which OCCUR
IN America are caused 6y Brighps disease
of the Lidne3s. This may sound like a rash
statement. but am prepared to fully verify
it. Bright's disease has no distinctive feat
ures of its own Indeed. it often develops
without any pain whitever in the Kidneys or
their vicinity, but has the symptoms Of
nearly every other common complaint
Hundreds o. people die daily, who's, buriaks
are authorizei by a physicians certificate as
plexy," Paralysis" Spinal Complaints.
"Rheunatis;n," pneumonia" and otner
common complaints. when in reality il y
from Bright disease OF the kifneys. Tew
physicians. and fewer people, realize the ex-
tent OF this disease or it's dangerous and in
sidlous nature. 1t steals into the system Ike
thief. manifests its pres nee if at all by tho
comrnone,t symptoms and fastens itself m
the constitution before the victim liz aware
Of it. 1t is nearly rs hereditary rs consump-
ton, quite rs common and fully as fatgtl.
Entire families inaerit:ng it from their an
restors have dle1. AMI ye5 none of the num-
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