Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-02-19
THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement of Per-
sonal Danger and Provi-
Dental Escape.

press--is so remarkable that we
cannot excuse ourselves if We do
not lay it before our readers entire.
To the Editor Rochester N. Y. Democrat:
SIR. On the first of June, 1881, l 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 Il few years previous
apy one had told me that l was to be
brought so low, and by so terrible a
disease, / should have scofted at the
idea. ! 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 realize at ime
that they are unusually tired and CAN
not account for it. They feel dull
pains in various parts of the body and
do not understand why. Or they are
exceedingly hungry II day and en-
tirely without appetite the next. This
wasjust the way L felt when the re-
Ientless malady which had fastened
itself upon me first began. Still |
thought nothing oil it that probably L
had taken a cold which would soon
pass away. Shortly after this l noti-
ced Il heavy, and at times neuralgia,
| pain in one side of my head, but as it
| would come II day and be gone h
next, l paid little attention to 1t. Then
my stomach would get out of order
| aud my food often tailed to digest,
| causing at times great Inconvenience.
| Yet, even as a physician, / did not think
| that these things meant anything seri-
Gus. | fancied 1 was suffering from
malaria and doctored myself accor-
dinghy. But i got no better. l next
noticed a peculiar color and odor about
the fluids [ was passing also that there
| were large quantities IA day and very
little the next, and that a persistent
froth and scum appeared on the sur
face, and a sediment settled. AND yet
| l did not realize my danger for, indeed,
seeing these symptoms continually, L
finally became accustomed to them,
and my suspicion was wholly disar-
med by the fact that l had no pain IN
the affected organs or in their vicinity.
WHY | should nave been so blind l
cannot understand.
consulted the best medical skill in
the land. l visited all the famed MN
eral springs in America and Travelled
from Maine to California. Still L grew
worse. No two physicians agreed as
to my malady. One said L was
troubled with spinal irritation anoth-
er, dyspepsia another, heart disease
another, general debility another,
congestion OF the base OF the brain
and 50 ON though n long list of common
diseases, the symptoms OF many OF
which | really had. In this way
several years passed, during which
time I was steadily growing worse
NV condition had really become pitia-
BILE. The slight symptoms l had al
| first experienced were developed into
terrible and constant disorder. My
weight had been reduced from 207 tG
1870 pounds. My life was a burden tt
myself and friends. could retain nf
food Oh my stomach, and lived wholly
Ivy injections. My pulse was uncontroll
able. LII my agony | frequently fell tt
the floor and clutched the carpet, anc
prayed for death. Morphine had little
!. or no effect in deadenlng the pain
For six days and nights HAD the dealt
premonitory, hiccoughs constant
Iy. My water was filled with tube
casts and albuInen. l vas struggiin.
with Bright's Disease of the kidney
in its last stages!
NItlt SuilCilhS mus 4CSStSSN
call from my pastor, the Rev. DR.
| Foote, at that time rector of st. Paul
Episcopal Church, of this city. [ Eel
that it was our last interview, but il
. the course of conversation DR.. Foot
detailed to me the many remarkabl,
cures of cases like my own which hat
/ come under his observation. AS
= practicing physician and a gradual
of the schools, l derided the idea o
any medicine outside the regular chan
nels bring in the least beneficial. s
solicitous was DIR. Foote, that l final.
/ promised / would waive my prejudice
I began its use on the first day G
June, 1881, and took it according t
. directions. At first it sickened me
8 but this I thought was a good sign TO
f one in my debilitated condition.
1 continued to take it; the sickenini
sensation departed and L vas final,
| able to retain food upon my stomach
In a few days 1 noticed a decide
change for the better, as also did m
Y wife and friends. My hiccough
ceased and 1 experienced less pal
T than formerly. L was SO rejoiced a
this improved condition that, upo
what I had believed but d few day
: before was my dying bed, I voWeC
. LII tlC P1SSSiSO VI Ahy ihIihiy IA
friends, should 1 recover, I would bot
U publicly and privately make know.
e this remedy for the good of humanity
wherever anu whenever / had an OF
l. portunity, and this letter is in fulfill
ment of that vow. My improvement
was constant from that time, and i
less than three months [ had game,
g 26 pounds in flesh, became entirely fire.
| from pain and | believe [ owe my lif
and present condition wholly to Wal
! ner's Safe Cure, the remedy which
used.
Slice my recovery I have thorough
ly re-investigated the subject of kid
ney difficulties and Bright's disease
and the truths developed are astound
ing. ! therefore stale, deliberately
and as a physician, that | believe nor
than one-hdtf The deaths sUhich occu
an america are caused by Bright
disease Of the kidneys. This ma
sound like a rash statement, but | AT
prepared to fully verify it. Bright
r disease has no distinctive features c
i its own, Indeed, it often develop
: without any pain whatever in the kid
neys or their vicinity but has tn
symptoms OF nearly every other CON
= mon complaint. Hundreds of peopl
Ole daily, WnOse DuFiaIsa are d~ulIloflZt'
by a physicians certificate as occur
ring froIn"H He irtDisease ""Apoplexy,
sPa,alysis," "Spinal Complaint,
"Rheumatism," '.Pneumonia," an,
other common complaints, when il
reality it is from Bright's disease c
i the kidneys. Few physicians, an
fewer people, realize the extent of thi
0 disease or its dangerous and insidiou
nature. 1t steals into the system Tx
: a thief, manitests its presence if at a
by the commonest symptoms and fast
ems itself in the constitution beior
the victim is aware of it. 1t is nearl,
as hereditary as consumption, quite a
common and fully as fatal. Entir
families, inheriting it from their ances
tors, have died and vet none of In
number knew or realized the mysteI
: ious power which was removing them
I Instead of common symptoms it otlel
shows oDe whatever, bat bring
death suddenly, from commissions, aI
oplexy, or heart disease. AS one VIII
has suffered, and knows by bitter OK
perience what he says. 1 implor
everyone who reads these words nc
to neglect the slightest symptoms c
6 kidney difficulty. No one can affor,
. to hazard such chances.
= / make the foregoing statement
based upon facts which | can substar