Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1882 — A PROFESSIONAL CONFESSION. [ARTICLE]

A PROFESSIONAL CONFESSION.

The Unxuraal Experience of a Prominent ■ ■ • * Man Made PvhUfe - 'Die following ar.icle from the Democxat and Chronicle, of Rochester, N. ¥., is of so striking a nature, and emanates from so reliable a source, that it is herewith tepubUsh«d entire. In addition to the valuable matter it contains, it will be found exceedingly interesting. To the Editor of the Democrat and Chronicle: Sib—My motives for the publication of the mo t unusual statements which follow are, first, gratitude for the fact that I have been saved fiom a most horrible death, and, secondly, a desire to warn all who read this statement against semi of the most deceptive influences by which they have ever been surrounded. It is a fact that to-day thousands of people are within a foot of the rave and they do not know it To tell how was caught away from just this position and to warn others against nearing it are my objects in this communication. , On the first day of June, 1881,1 lay at my residence in this city surrounded by my friends and waiting for my death. Heaven only knows the agony I then endured, for words con never describe it And ye*, if a few years previous any one had told me that I was to be brought so low, and by so terrible a disease, I should have scoffed, at the idea. I had always been uncommonly strong and healthy, had weighed over 2(X) pounds and hardly knew, in my own experience, what pain or sickness were. Very many people who will read this statement realize at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for i r . They feel dull and indefinite pains in various parts of the body and do not understand it Or they are exceedingly hungry one day and entirely without appetite the next This was just the way I felt when the relentless mainly which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought it was nothing; that probably I had taken a cold yhch would soon pass away. Shortly after this I noticed a dull, and at times a neuralgic, pain in my head, but as it would come one day and be gone the next, I paid but little attention to it. However, my stomach w s out of order and my food often failed to digest, causing at times great inconvenience Yet I had no idea, even as a physician, that these t Ings meant anything serious or that a monstrous disease was becoming fixed upon me Candidly, I thought I was suffering from malaria and so doctored myself accordingly. But I got no better. I next not ced a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing—al bo that there were large quantities one day and very little the next, and that a peasistent frotti and scum appeared uf>on the surface, and a sediment settled in the bottom. And yet J did not realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally became accustomed to them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed by the fact that I had no pain in the affected organs or in the r vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I cannot understand. There is a terrible future for all physical neglect, and impending danger always brings a person to his senses even though it may be too late. I realized, at last, my critbal condition and aroused myself to overcome it. I consulted the best medical skill in the land. I visited all the prominent springs in America and traveled irom Maine to Co ifornia. Stid I grew worse. No two physicians agreed as to my malady. One said I was troubled with spinal irritation; another, nervous prostration; another, malaria; another, dyspepsia; another, heart d sease; another, general debility; ano her, congestion of the base of the brain; and so on through a long list of common diseases, the symptoms of all of which I really had. In this wav several years passed during at of which time 1 was steadily growing worse. My condition had really become pitiable. The slight symptoms lat first experienced were developed into terrible and constant disorders—the little twigs of pain had grown to oaks of agony. My weight had been reduced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a torture to myself and friends. I could retain no food upon my and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable. In my agony I frequently fell upon the floor, convulsively clutched the carpet and prayed for death. Morphine had little or no effect in deadening the pain. For six days and nights I had the death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly. My urine was filled with tube casts and albumen. I was struggling with Bright’s disease of the kidneys in its last stages. While suffering thus I received a call from my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, Rector of St. Pant’s church, of this city. I felt that it was our last interview, but in the course of conversation he mentioned a remedy of which I had heard much, but had never used. Dr. Foote detailed to me the many - remarkable cures which had come under his observation by means of this remedy, and urged me to try it As a practicing physician and a graduate of the schools, I cherished the prejudice both natural and common with all regular practitioners, and derided the idea of any medicine outside the regular channels being the least beneficial. So solicitous, however, was Dr. Foo e, that I finally promised I would waive Iny prejudice and try the remedy he so t ighly recommended. I began its use on ihe first day of June, and took it according to directions. At first it sickened me; but this I thought was a good sign for me in my debilitated condition. I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed, and I was able to retain food upon my stomach. lii a few davs I noticed a decided change for the better, as also did my wife and Iriends. My hiccoughs ceased and I experienced less pain than formerly. I was so rejoiced at ths improved condition that, upon what I had believed but a few days before was my dying bed, I vowed, in the presence of my family and friends, should I recover I would both publicly and privately make known this remedy for the good of humanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity. I also determined that I would give a course, of lectures in the Corinthian Academy of Music of this city, stating in full the symptoms and almost hopelessness of my disease and the remarkable mpbns by which I have been saved. My improvement was constant from that time, and in less than three months I had gained twenty-six pounds in flesh, became entirely free frdm pain, and I believe I owe irfy life and present condition wholly to Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy which I used. Since my recovery I have thoroughly reinvestigated the subject of kidney difficulties and Bright’s disease, and the truths developed are astounding. I therefore state, deliberately, and as a physician, that I believe that mote than one-half the deaths which occur in America are caused by Bright’s disease of the kidneys. This may sound like afa sli statement, but lam prepared-to fully verify it. Bright’s disease has no distinctive symptoms of its own (indeed, it often develops without any pain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity), but has the symptoms of nearly every other known complain Hundreds of people die daiiy, whose burials are authorized by a physician’s certificate of “Heart Disease,” “Apoplexy,” “Paralysis,” “Spinal Complaint,” “Rheuma-* and other com Mon comwhen in reality it was Brig’ht’s Disease of the Kidneys 'Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this di- ease, or its dangerous and insidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests its preseneq by the commonest symptoms, and fastens itself upon the constitution before tho is aware. It is nearly as hereditary fee cflHisninption, quite bR commofi and fully as fatal Entire families, inheriting it from their ajicestors, have died, and yet none of the number knew, or realized the inystqrJousnoweXiwhich was removing them. Instead of common symptoms it often shows npno Whatever, but brings death suddenly, and as such is usually supposed to be heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by '’Wttcr experience what he say«rAJwmtore every one « li" r<-:i<ls those woMs no! to negl. < t the slightest synqrtoms of difficulty. Certain agony and possible death will bo tfio sure result of such neglect, ana no one can afford to hazard such chances. I am awiire, that such an unqualified s’ atoment as this, coming, from me, known as I am throughout the entire land as a practitioner afid lecturer, will, arou-e the surprise and possible onimjsjty of the medidU profession and a tonish al with whom I am acquainted, rut I make the foregoing statements based upon facts which I am prepared to produce, and trutlw which I can substantiate to the letter. The welfare of those who may possibly be sufferers such us I was Is an a unle inducement for me to take the step I have, and if I can successfully warn others from tho dangerous path in which I once walked, I am willing to endure all professional and personal consequcncOs. ‘ J. Henjon, M. D. A peominent feature of the new system of German orthography n the frequent elimination df ’consonants that are held to be ffttpefflndus. Thus Hath (Council; becomes Hat with certain writers and newspapers—the Cologne Gazette is at the head of the innovators —and todt (dead) tot,. It is to be hoped rto innovator will be allowed to interfere with our good old Lebensversieherungsgesellschaft. —Louisville Cour-ier-Joumal. A few miles away from Philadelphia are living a family of triplets, two men and a woman, who are 60 years of age. They are the children of an old Lufher l - .an clergyman named Rolliers, and ano l all hale and hearty. These triplets have always lived together. brothers arc married, but the SWteJ has remained a spinster, - s