Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-04-29
RETAIN YOUR SENSES!
COULD YOU, IF o WERE CONFINED
IN AN ASYLUM?

Some Interesting Facts From a Promin-
emit Scientific Man Who Has Had a Most
Valuable Experience.
We sometimes see in the papers a thrill
ling account of where a perfectly sane per.
son has been confined in an asylum. Think
of it, reader! How long would you retain
your senses if you were confined with a
number of lunatics, night and day, and yet
think of the physicians in charge of these
patients who are compelled. day by day
and year by year, to live among them.
Wha. wonderful opportunities they have
for studying characteristics and vagaries:
what a wonderful chance for learning the
mlseries OF life and how best to overcome
them.
We are brought to these reflections by a
conversation lately had with Dr. C. Spray
OF 163 State street, Chicago. For nearly ten
wears DR.. Spray was in charge of the JEFF
ferSOn, now Dunning Institute. at Dunn
ing. LII. This tremendous institution con-
tanned about twelve hundred patients in
the insane department., and fifteen hundred
IN the lnflrmary. Among this large mum.
per OF persons there were a vast number of
physical ailments. DR.. Spray, speaking
about it, said:
II traced the great cause for most of the
mental and indeed physical disorders very
carefully. and while some authorities make
an estimate that Is cent. of the people in
the United States are afflicted with some
form of kidney disease, | do not think that
the rate is 50 high, taking all ages into
consideration. Before middle life it is less
tlan 70 per cent. but after middle life it is,
l should think, fully that percentage"
"ThiS is certainly terrible, doctor. Few
people can certainly be aware that so large
a percentage exists
The doctor thought a moment and then
said: ut is a fact not generally recognized
that where a person has diseased kidneys
and the organs fail to perform their func-
tiOns of removing the waste and the i'm
purltles from the system, it soon produces
melancholia. AS a result our asylums are
filled to overlooking, while if the people
would strike at the root of the matter and
see that their kidneys were in good order,
there would be fewer patients in the asy.
lumS. | have noticed that a large portion
OF all paresis cases had kidney difficulties"
"What have you found, doctor, to be the
standard and most reliable remedy in such
cases /"
DIR. Spray spoke with great confidence.
He said: "Having so many cases to treat, l
tried various remedies. and after a long
and exhaustive trial, finally decided that
Warmers Safe Cure was the best, most eff
fective and most reliable remedy. | found
it specially reliable in cases of incipient
Brights disease. 1t is certain to stop it,
and even in the advanced conditions it
allays the disease, and to my surprise at
first, cured many. cases. Before structural
changes set in, it is certain to cure, if prop
erly administered"
Has your experience while at the asy-
lum, doctor, been confirmed in your general
praStice since leaving it,"
YES. l have occasion to use the Safe
Curn almost daily Whpnavar 7 find froooc
OF albumen in the urine of a patient, l pre-
scribe the Safe Cure, and in nearly every
instance where [ notice indications of uer-
yous troubles, | anaIyze the urine, and
almost invariably find that it is caused by
some affection of the kidneys. l now have
q patient to whom | am giving the Safe
Cure, and find that it is having the desired
effect. Some time ago Il gentleman came
to me. who had been examined for life i'll
Surance, and traces of albumen were found,
l advised the use of the Safe Cure, and he
passed the examination without difficulty
after having used it."
81 understand, then, doctor, that you
attribute a large percentage of the ills of
life to some disease of the kidneys, and
that you have found the remedy Of which
you speak the most effective in such cases.
"Ies. l have no hesitation in saying
that warmers Safe Cure has my %unquali-
fed endorsement. l use it constantly, and
would not do SO unless l thought 1t Dos
SesSed curative qualities"
The high standing, wide experience and
great success OF DR.. Spray make his words
exceedingly impressive. Their sincerity
cannot be questioned, and their truthful
ness Is absolute. impressed with this fact.
and realizing the Importance of the same, l
have transcribed his words in full and
give them herewith.-Chicago Journal.
William Aston died on Monday night
at Hotel Liverpool in Paris, the cause
being heart failure. Mr.. Astor was the
father of Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton, and
was greatly worried over the Fox
Borrowe Midland scandal.