The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-16
A HARD FIGHT.
THE STORY OF A FAILURE

The writer was called to the phone
| BY a prominent attorney of San Fran
cisco who said that friend of his was
| dying of Bright's Disease and that If
We could do anything To send the
| treatment and a physician. Both
were sent The doctor 'phoned back
that the patient was at the end Of
years fight with chronic BTIght's
! Disease and was almost skeleton.
| and was in coma. and that the priests
had administered the last rites, and
that the attending physicians had told
the patients wife that 1t was only a
question of hours and he declared
with considerable spirit that he had
practically been called IN TO sign
The death certificate The patient,
San Francisco business man, was in
charge OF the nurses They SAID thar
nothing had passed into or out OF the
patients stomach for twenty-four
hours; that it had ceased 10 act
would not hold peptonlzed milk-and
that they were waiting for the end.
Our consulting physician did not
think that there was one chance in
thousand but started hard fight
for that chance. Jumping into car
rage. he went TO Wakelee & Co.'S.
procured q high twenty-inch tube and
the necessary adjuncts and returned
for an all nights fight 10 keep the
patient alive. After four hours with
cmusions through the high tube the
impacted feces We're removed and.
as the stomach had almost ceased
functionlnG. the patient was fed and
given both treatment and food per
rectum, The food and treatment were
administered and withdrawn every
three hours. night and day The pa
tent was given an alcohol and emul-
sion rub alternately every three
hours. He was given no food by the
stomach FOR ten days except littlc
champagne and cracked ice The sec
ond dav he began to .movo 4 little.
The fourth day he was beginning to
clear mentally. In two weeks bis
stomach began 10 accept chicken anG
solid foods. In month he was walk.
ing around the room, and In two
months contrary 10 the strenuous
advice Of the phySicianl he insisted
on taking a Southern trip He was
not as strong as he thought and SUI
fered q relapse The physician was
telegraphed for and went South 10
attend and bring him home, but the
trip and consequent relapse was so
serious that the patient expired on
arrival In San Francisco.
This was battle against tremen-
deus odds anG It Is our belief that it
would have been won ii the patient
lad followed the physicians advice
and given up the trip until he was
stronger
The attorney mentioned who called
MS up by phone was the Hon Bar.
clay Henley. the ex-member of con.
gress and well-known lawyer Of San
Francisco. His offices are In the Pa
ciflc Building on Market street and
he Will doubtless confirm these facts
10 anyone who may be interested.
We refer to this instance and his
name In connection herewith withou.
his consent We could hardly afford
TO do this IL the above was not strict.
ly true.
We consider the treatment that
this physician used in this case In
AID the Renal Compound as so i'm.
portant that 1t was at our request
written up in detail giving the var
ious prescriptions and formulae We
will mall it To physicians who NAV
have critical cases Ike the abovo.
Bnght's Disease Is now durable in
great majority OF all cases by tho
now emolliment treatment Fulton'o
Renal Compound. 1t may be had In
your city OF VIM. Driver & Son Drug
Co.
Literature mailed free. Address
John ]. Fulton Co. 6i5 Battery st.
San Francisco. We desire to hear
from aud advise with every case NOT
making the usual recovery.