Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-24
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement Of Personal Dan
ger and Proyidential Escape.

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selves If we do not lay it before our
readers, entire:
I To The Editor Rochestsr IN. " Democrat:
SIR. On the first day Of June, 1881, /
lay 1T 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, il few years
1 previous any one had told me that was
to be brought go low, and by so terrible |
a disease, should have scoffed at the |
idea. | had always been uncommonly |
strong and healthy, and weighed over
200 pounds and hardly knew, in my ex-
perience, what pain or sickness were.
Very many people who read this state
ment realize al times that they are I'M
usually 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 begun. Still
thought nothing of it; that probably l
had taken a cold which would soon pass
away. Shortly after this / noticed 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,
paid little attention TO it. Then my
stomach would get out of order and my
food often failed to digest, causing at
times great inconvenience. Yet, even
as physician, / did not think that
these things meant anything serious. ]
fencied | was suffering from malaria and
doctored myself accordingly. But / got
no better | next noticed a 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 a
, sediment settled. And yet / did not
realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing
) these symptoms continually, / finally
became accustomed to them, and my
! suspicion was wholly disarmed BY the
: fact that l mad no pain in the affected
. organs or in their vicinity. Why
should have been so blind | cannot I'M
. derstand.
a | consulted the best medical skill in
the land | visited all the famed min
eral springs in America and travelled
from Maine to California. Still | grew
-. worse. No two physicians agreed az to
. nav maladv. One said | was troubled
:, with spinal irritation another, dyspep-
STA; another, heart disease; another,
!. general debility; another, congestion OF
n the base OF the brain and so on through
n a long list OF common diseases, the symp-
o toms of many of which l really had. In
n this way several years passed. during
e which time was steadily growing worse.
e Nv condition had really become pitiable
It The slight symptoms | had at first ex
2 perienced were developed into terrible
/ Ifzor,Jar1 Nv rr-aifrtgf har
.e been reduced from 207 to $50 pounds
n NV life was burden to myself anC
If friends. I could retain no food on my
le stomach, and lived wholly by injections
:, l was a living mass Of pain. Ny pulse
It was uncomfortable. In my agony l ire
d quentlv fell to the floor and clutched th'
s carpet. and prayed for death. Morphine
e, had little or no effect in deadening thu
Of pain. For six DAYS and nights had tn,
le death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly
n Nv water was filled with tube-casts anC
N albumen. ! was struggling witt
le Bright's Disease Of the kidneys in it
4 last stages
e. While suffering thus received a cal
u from nv pastor. the Rev. DR.. F0ote, q
that time rector OF St. PauPs Episcopa
Church, of this city. felt that II wa
our last interview, but in the course c
rs conversation DR.. Foote detailed to m
ct the many remarkable cures OF cases llk
es nv own which had come under his OK
TO seTvation. As practicing physical
OF and a graduate OF the schools l deride
it the idea OF anv medicine outside til
We regular channels being in the least Der
to eficial. So solicitous, however was D
n Foote, that l finally promised l woul
5!e waive my prejudice. l began its use o
a. the first day of June, 1881, and took
nj according TO directions. At first it sicl
ne ened me; bat this thought WIS goo
50 sign for one in my debilitated condition
US I continued to take it; the sickenir
ne sensation departed and l was final
leI able to retain food on my stomach.
al a few DAYS l noticed a decided chans
us for the better. as also did my wife ar
friends. Nv hiccoughs ceased and | e
perienced less pain than formerly.
was 50 reioiced at this improved cond
he ton that. upon what had believed b
Try a few DAYS before was my dying bed,
OF vowed. in the presence OF nay family al
ca, friends, should l recover, l would DO
5hl publicly and privately make known tn
or remedy for the good OF humanity, whe
zen ever and whenever l had an opportu
ces itv. and this letter is in fulhliment
Is that vow. My Improvement was co
slant from THAI lLlIIcf AIM III ACS1 ~
us three months I had gained 70 pounds
flesh. became entirely free from pa
ou s and | believe l owe my life and prese
~ ~ condition wholly 10 Warmers Safe Gun
- the remedy which l used.
Since my recovery l have thorough
- demonstrated the subject OF kidney d
ficulties and Bright's disease, and I
truths developed are astounding.
therefore state, deliberately, and as
physician. that l believe more than o.
,,,, halt me deaths lrbicb occUr az liner
- t-- caused bg B7qh'S disease u ths <
- ssl<. This may sound like rash sta
~ mtnt. hut am prepared TO fully Yer
II Bright's disease has no distinct
~saI features of its own, indeed, It oft
-, develops without any pain whatever
ar the kidneys or their vicinity but
~, the Svmptoms of nearly every other co
Ter mon complaint. hundreds OF PEG
am die dailv. whose burials are authoril
are hv PHYSICIANS certificate As occurr
/. or from Heart Disease, "Apop'eN,
and ' Paralysis, Spinal Complain
nall :. Rheumatism, Pneumonia 6
Ton other common complaints, when in r.
zed. itv il is from Bright's disease OF the
its news. Few physicians, and fewer =
ME realize the extent Of this disease
its dangerous and insidiouS nature.
steals into the system like thief, ms
tests its presence if at all by the &
way u,onesr SYMPTOMS and faStenS itself
act The constitution before the victim
o'A- aware Of it. Il is nearly as heredit