Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1883 — A STRANGE REMINISCENCE. [ARTICLE]

A STRANGE REMINISCENCE.

-nrMMnr a Well-Known Surgeon from an Unforeseen Danger^ Messrs. Editor*: "‘-'"v I seldom appear publicly in print, but the facts connected with my experience which follow are so striking, and bear so closely upon the experience of others, that I venture to reproduce them entire. In the month of September, 1870,1 was practicing medicine in New Orleans, The summer had been excessively hot and everybody was complaining of being exhausted and feeling tired. It was not an infrequent occurrence to have patients ask for something to relieve this weary sensation, and that I should also partake of the same universal lassitude or weakness, did not alarm me I supposed that overwork and exposure had produced a temporary physical prostration; therefore I made a trip to 8t Paul, Minn., thinking that a rest of a few weeks in a cooler climate would soon reinvigorate me. Little did I dream, however, what was in store for me. After getting settled in my new quarters I took a short walk every day, and patiently awaited a return of strength, but in spite of all my efforts I seemed to be losing strength; and even any slight exercise became laborious and tiresome. During this time I had frequent dull, v aching pains in my bead, and * through my back ana hips, occasional shooting pains in various parts of the body, with soreness, shortness of breath and palpitation of the heart My feet and bands would be like ice one day and burn with heat the next I had no desire for food, and what I did eat distressed me; my sleep was distressed with the frequent desire to urinate The quantity of fluid passed would at one time be small and at another quite profuse Then for day* I woiild be perf otly free from this desire snd nothing seemed to be the matter; nevertheless my debility gradually increased My eyelids were puffed out; my bowels were al ornately torpid and too active, the urine would be clear some days, on others it would be of high color and deposit a brick-dust sediment, and at still others there would be a whitish appearance and a thin greasy scum would rise to the top. The pains in my head, back, chest, joints, bowels and bones were horrible in the exirema I went in vain from place to place and consulted the best medical authorities the country affords; I would 'hove a chill one day and a burning fever the next I suffered excruciatingly with a numbness of my feet and hands, and at the base of the brain and between my shoulders; at times my limbs and body would bloat und physicians said I was suffering from the drppsy and could not recover. ~ _ How I could be so blind to the tenibTe trouble that was devouring me, I do not know; but there are thousands to-day who Ore suffering from the same cause ana are as ignorant of its nature as I was. My skin was. the color of marble at one time, and then again it would be like saffron, and this terrible restlessness, and I might sav wildness, was followed by a dull, heavy, arowsy sensation I was wast dto a mere skeleton except when the dropsical bloat occurred. I tried all the celebrated,min ral wate. s of this oountry and Europe; all kinds of medicine and all kinds of doctors. Still ho help came I- lay at my hotel in Philadelphia, where I was temporarily sojourning, given up to diO by friends and physicians alike, when there providentially came into my hands a little pamphlet, which I carefully, read, and from which I got a view of my real condition, which no other agency had revealed. Acting on i's advice, I had my water analyzed at once, and, to my surprise, albumen and tube casts were found in large quantities A skillful' physician was sent for and apprised of the fact He said I had Brlght'B Disease, and that death was certain. My friends importuned me to take a remedy which had won a great reputation for the cure of all forms of kidney diseases, and 1 therefore laid aside my prejudice and oommenced its use At first iny stomach rejected it and-1 had to use small quantities; but after the first five Hay's my stomach retained full doses. This was one year ago last October, and my improve-, ment was rapid and permanent I have regained fifty of the sixty-five pounds of flesh I lost during my illness, and I feel as well to-day as I ever did, and I can unreservedly state that my life was saved by Warners Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy I used. It may seem strange that I, being a physician and an ex-army surgeon, aid not have the water analyzed before; but such is the fact I had the symptoms of every other disease, arid I did not suspect that my kidneys were in the least particular out of ordei; and here is just where I was in the greatest danger and where most people who read this article are in danger. I find that I am only one of thousands who ore suffering from kidney disorders which, neglected, surely terminate in Bright's disease. I also know that physicians may treat these disorders for months without knowing clearly what the trouble is, and, even after ascertaining the cause, be unable to prevent it When death, however, finally overtakes the helpless victim thev disguise its real cause, , attributing it to heart disease, convulsions, apoplexy, vertigo, paralysis, spinal meningitis, blood and uremic poisoning, eta, etc. * ■. Words, of course, fail to express my thanks to H .H. Warmer & Co., of Rochester, N Y., for giving the world such a needed and certain specific as the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, but such as they are I gladly give them- while to the thousands to whom I have lectured upon the laws of, health and hygiene I commend this letter most cordially, and warn them to beware of the insidious nature of a disease over which physicians confess they have no control, and which, in one form or another, is carrying more people to untimely graves than any other malady. J. M. Pouter, M. D. 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