Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — THE IMPENDING FATE. [ARTICLE]

THE IMPENDING FATE.

Am (■tOMttac Chapter front the Life of m Prominent [From the Boston Globe.] The readers of this paper ware more or leas amazed at a most remarkable statement from one of our leading citizens which appeared in yesterday's issue. Bo unusual were the circamstanoes connected with it, and so much comment did it oocaston on the street and in social circles, that a representative of this paper was commissioned to investigate its details and verify its facts. The artioie referred to eras a statement made ly Mr. & F. Larrabee, of the New York and Boston Dispatch Express Company, whose offioe is on Arch street Mr. Larrabee was found by the newspaper man in his private office, and on being questioned said ; “Well, sir, logically I nave been dead, but really lam as you can see me. A little over a year ago I was taken sick. My trouble was not severe at first and I thought it was the res ait of a slight cold. Somehow I felt unaccountably tired at times although I took an abnndanoe of sleep. Then, again, I bad dnll and strange pains in various parts of my body. My appetite Kras good one day and I had none whatever the next and my bead painod me more or less mnch of the time. A while afterward 1 noticed mnch that was peculiar about thefluids I waa pass.ng and that a sedimSut, scorn and a strange accumulation appeared in it. Still I did not roalize that these things meant anything serious and I allowed the illness to ran along until on the 38th day of October I fell prostrate while walking along Tremout street. I was carried home and did not go oat of the house ant 1 the middle of December. I then went down town and attempted to attend to my business until the 13th of last January, when I was taken with a very severe relapse. My symptoms were terrible. 1 was fearfully bloated ; I suffered severe pains in all parts of my body and it was almost impossible to get my breath. For six days 1 never laid down and never slept I was constantly attended by my regular physician, Dr. Johnson, and Dr. Bowditcn also came to see me nearly every day. There was no doubt that I was suffering from Bright’s disease of the kidneys in its worst form and last stages, accompanied by other troubles in my liver and heart In spite, however, of the skill of the physicians, I kept growing worse, and finally they tapped my side in the vicinity of the heart, taking away fortysix ounces of water. This relieved me for the time, but 1 soon became as bad as before. Then the doctor gave me up entirely, declared I could not live more than twenty-four hours and my daughter, who was residing in Paris, was telegraphed for. Still 1 lingered along for several weeks, far more dead than alive, but never giving up hope. One night—it was on the 20th of April, I very well remember —my attendant, who was reading the paper to me, began an article wbicb described my disease and sufferings exactly. It told how some severe cases of Bright's disease had been cured, and so clearly and sensibly did it state the case that I determined to xry the means of cure which it described. So I sent my man to the drug store, procured a bottle of tho medicine, unknown to my physicians and friends, and took the first dose at 10 o’clock. At that timo I was suffering intensely. 1 could not sleep ; I had the short breaths and could scarcely get any air into my luugs. I was terribly bloated from head to foot, and the motion of my heart was irregular and painful. Tho next morning I was able to breathe frooly ; the pain began to leave me and tho bloating decreased. I continued to take the medicine, and to-day, sir. I am as well I ever was in my life, and wholly owing to the wonderful, almost miraculous, power of Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. Ido not know what this medicine is made of, or anything else about it, but I know it saved my life when I was given up by the doctors and had really been dead for weeks ; that it has kept me in perfect health ever since and has cured many of my friends to whom I have recommended" it. There aue a number of very remarkable cases in Lynn and Salem, as well as in this city, that it has cured. My recovery is so remarkable that it has excited much attention, and physicians as well as others have investigated it thoroughly. lam glad they have, for I feel that the rosuVts of such a wonderful cure should bo known to the thousands in all parts of the land who are suffering from troubles of the kidneys, liver or heart, in some of their many dangerous forms.” The representative of the press thanked Mr. Larrabee for his very frank and clear state-mer-t, and was about to leave the office when a fentieman stepped up to him and inquired If o were seeking information about Mr. Larraboe’s sickness and recovery. The scribe replied that he was, whereupon the gentleman said : “And so am I, and I have come all the way from Chicago for that very purpose. Kidney troubles seem to be alarmingly increasing ail over the country, and I have a very near relative who is nfflictod much as Mr. Larrabee was. I have been to see the physician of whom Mr. Larrabee speaks, and I tell you, sir, it is simply wonderful.” “What did ne say ?” asked tho man of news. “Sny! why, sir, they fully confirm everything Mr. Larraboo Las stated. I went to see Dr. I). A. Johnson, at 20 Worcester street. He was absent when I called, and so I stepped into the Commonwealth Hotel, where Mr. Larrabee was filing at tho lime of bit sickness. -Messrs. Brngli & Carter are proprietors, and I asked them about Mr. Larrabeo’s caso. Mr. B' ligh pciuted to Ihe electii; annunciator and said. ‘ Why. for wicks and weeks, every time that bell rang I said : That means the death of Mr. Larrabee. No one around the hotel ever dreamed that he would recover, and when the doctors would come down from hii room they would shake their hoads and say there was no hope. The arrangements for tile funeral were made aud hi s recovery was simply a miracle.’ “I then called on Dr. Johnson, who said that Mr. Larraboe’s case was a very remarkable one. He was his family physician and expected his death every hour for a number of weeks, and never called to see him during, that time but he was prepared for it The doctor said the recovery was due to Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and if he had friends, male or female, troubled with albumen or any kidney troubles be should certainly advise them to use this remedy. Dr. Johnson said kidney difficulties are moro common than most people think, and that many symptQms which are supposed to be other diseases arise from the kidneys. He said that ladies after gestation are specially subject to albuminous troubles, which require prompt attention. “ Well, Lthon came down and called on Dr. H. Ingersoll Bowditch, on Bovlston street. The old doctor was inclined to be reticent, but fully confirmed all I had previously learned. He had attended Mr. Larrabee, and supposed him beyond all hop*, and he was afterward restored, as he said, by Warner’s Safe Kiduey and Liver Cure. “I next went to see Dr. Melville E. Webb, at the Hotel Cluny, for you see I was determined to be thorough in the matter. I found Dr. Webb a most clear-headed and well-informed gentleman, and he said : “ ‘ I know of Mr. Larrabee’s caso from having thoroughly investigated it as a medical director of a life insurance company, and it is one of the most remarkable cases 1 have ever met. Mr. Larrabee had all the manifestations of a complication of diseases, and in their worst forms. He had albumen and casts in the urine, and a terribly diseased liver and spleen. Indeed, he was so bad that he threw himself upon the -floor, and with his head upon a hassock, struggled for breath. It was on tho night when he was so bod and when all his medical advisers had long given him up that he began using Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. The next morning at 10 o’cloek he was able to breathe freely, ana has been ever since. I subjected him to the most thorough examination possible, after his recovery, and ‘ I can’t find out about him.’ His kidneys, liver, lnngs and heart are perfectly well and sound. I can only add that, from what I have seen, I would unhesitatingly recommend this remedy.’ ” The conclusions from the statements above made which come to the newspaperman as well as the general public, must be two-fold. First, that a modern miracle of healing has been performed in our midst, and that, too, by thb simplest means and one which is within the reach of every one. It should be remembered that Bright’s disease is not usually a sudden complaint Its beginnings are slight and its growth slow. The symptoms by which it may be detected are different with different persons, no two people usually having the same. This fact was manifest in the case of Mr. Larrabee, and he had no idea of the ternble complaint whioh bad attacked him until it became fixed upon him. Secondly, testimonials of sneh high character, and so oat-spoken in tone, conclusively preve the value of the remedy and its superior nature to the proprietary artiolee with which the public have been flooded. “The greater includes the less,” and the remedy which has been proven so valuable and hjw saved a life after it was brought to death’s door, must unquestionably be certain in all minor trembles which are so disastrous unless taken in time.