Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-02-26
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE
remarkable Statement Of Personal
Danger and PrOvidential Escape.

cuse ourselves if we DO not lay it be-
fore our readers. entire.
10 the Editor Rochester (N. W Dem
Ocrat:
SIR-On the first day of June, 1881,
l lay at my residence in this city sur
rounded by my friends ana waiting for
death. Heaven only knows the agony
| then ensured, 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 disease, | should have scoffcd
at the idea. had always been UNI
commonly strong ana healthy, and
weighed over POO pounds ana hardly
knew, in my own experience. 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 ana 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 malauy which had fastened |
| itself upon me first began. Still |
| thought nothing OF it: that probably |
had taken Il cold which would soon
pass away. Shortly after this | no.
ticed a heavy, ana at times neuralgia.
pain in one side OF my head but rs it
would come one DAY and be gone the
next | paid little attention to it.
Then my stomach would get out of
order ana my food often failed 10 Cl-
gest causing at times great inconveni-
ence. Yet. even rs a physician, | did
not think that these things mcantany-
thing serious. fanciod | was suffer-
ing from malaria ana doctoreG myself
accordingly. But got no better. l
next noticed Il peculiar color ana door
about the fluids was passing-also
that there We're large quantities one
day ana very little the next and that
a persistent frotn ana scum appeared
on the surface and a sediment settled.
Anu yet did not realize my danger,
for, indeed, seeing these symptoms
continually. l finally became accus-
toned to them. ana my suspicion was
wholly disarmed by the fact that had
no pain in the affected organs or in
their vicinity. Why | should have
been so blin0 cannot understand.
consulted the best medical skill in
the I3,.l. ! 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 | was trou-
bled with spinal irritation; another,
dyspepsia: another, heart disease; an
other. general debility; another con.
geston Of the base OF the brain: and sc
on through II long list OF common dis
eases the symptoms OF many OF which
| really had. IN this way several years
D passed, during which time | was stead
= lily growing worse. My condition hat
7 really become pitiable. The Sigh
: symptoms had at first experienced
were developed into terrible and con
slant disorders. My weight had beer
reduced from POI to $50 pounds. Nj.
life was II burden to myself and friends
, could retain no food on my stomach
and lived wholly by injections. wa
Il living mass OF pain. My pulse wa
n uncomfortable. In my agony l fire
) ouently fell to tho floor and clutche
h the carpet and prayed for death. MOI
II phine had little or no effect in deader
= ing the pain. For six days and night
a l had the death premonitOry hiccough
constantly. My water was filled wit
. tube casts and alblmen. l was strue
" Cling with Bright's Disease of the kiG
:, neys in Its last stages
u While suffering thus l received
q call from my pastor, the Rev. ID
. Foote. at that time rector of st. Paul
t, Episcopal church. OF this city. l fe
b that it was our last interview, but
Q the course Of conversation Dr. Foo,
20 detailed to me the many remarkab
"a cures of eases like my own which ha
, come under Eis observation. As a pra
ticing physician and 4 graduate OF II
10 schools, derided the idea of any met
g icine outside the regular channels b.
- ing in the least beneficial. SO solici
'e Gus, however. was DR., Foote that
n finally promised l would waive II
g. prejudice. ! began its use on the fir
DAY OF Juns, 1881. and took it accor
ing to directions. AT first 1t slckent
me: but this | thought was good sig
10 for one in my debilitated condition.
~ continued to take it; the slckenlng Sc
-, satior departed and was finally ab
~ to realm food upon my stomac
~ In !: few days | noticed decide
lie change for the better. as also did
re wife and friends. My hiccougl
Ike ceased and Inexperienced less pain thu
to formerly. was so rejoiced at tn
i'd improved condition that, upon'wha,
b. rad believed but few days before W
N. say dying bed, vowed. in the pre-
m. ence Of my family and friends. shou
n, l recover, would both publicly al
on privately make known this remedy
~ the good of humanity. wherever al
d" whenever had IN opportunity. al
AIS this letter is in fulfillment OF thatvo
1e- My improvement was constant frc
ms that time, and in less than thr
As months l had gained &c pounds
led flesh. became entirely free from pa