Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — A DANGEROUS AMBUSCADE. [ARTICLE]

A DANGEROUS AMBUSCADE.

Discovered Barely In Time— The Moat Deceptive and Larins of Modern Evils Graphically Described. [Syracuse Journal.} Something of a sensation was caused in this city yesterday by a rumor that one of our beet known citizens was about to publish a statement concerning some unusual experiences during his residence in Syracuse. How the rumor originated it is impossible to say, but a reporter immediately sought Dr'. S. G. Martin, the gentleman in question, and secured the following interview: “What about this rumor. Doctor, that you are going to make a public statement of some important matters?” “Just about the same as you will find in all rumors—some truth; some fiction. I had contemplated making a publication of some remarkable episodes that have occurred in my life, but have not completed it as yet.” “ What is the nature of it, may I inquire?” “Why, the Tact that I am a human being instead of a spirit. I have passed through one of the most wonderful ordeals that perhaps ever occurred to any man. The first intimation I had of it was several years ago, when 1 began to feel chilly at night, and restless after retiring. Occasionally this would be varied by a soreness of the muscles and cramps in my arms and legs. I thought, as most people would think, that it was only a cold, and so paid as little attention to it as possible. Shortly after this 1 noticed a peculiar catarrhal trouble, and my throat also became inflamed. As if this were not variety enough I felt sharp pains in my chest, and a constant tendency to headache.” “Why didn't you take the matter in hand and check it right where it was?” “Why doesn’t everybody do so? Simply because they think it is only some trifling and passing disorder. These troubles did not come all at once, and I thought it unmanly to heed them. I have found, though, that every physical neglect must be paid for and with large interest. Men cannot draw drafts on their constitution without honoring them some time. These minor symptoms I have described grew until they were giants of agony. I became more nervous; bad a strange fluttering of the heart, an inability to draw a long breath and an occasional numbness that was terribly suggestive of paralysis. How I could have been so blind as not to understand what this meant I cannot imagine.” “And did you do nothing?” “Yes, I traveled. In the spring of 1879 I went to Kansas and Colorado, and, while in Denver, I was attacked with a mysterious hemorrhage of the urinary organs and lost twenty pounds of flesh In three weeks. One day after my return I was taken with a terrible chill and at once advanced to a very severe attack of pneumonia. My left lung soon entirely filled with wateriand my logs and body became twice their natural size. 1 was obliged to sit upright in bed for several weeks in the midst of the severest agony, with my arms over my head, and in constant fear of suffocation.”

“And did you still make no attempt to save yourself/” “Yea, I made frantic efforts. I tried everything 1 that seemed to offer the least prospect of relief. I called a council of doctors and had them make an exhaustive chemical and microscopical examination of my condition. Five of the best physicians of Syracuse and several from another city said I must die! “It 6eemed as though their assertion was true for my feet became cold, my mouth parched, my eyes wore a fixed glassy stare, my body was covered with a cold, clammy death sweat, and I read my fate in the anxious expressions of my family and friends.” “But the flnalet" “Came at last. My wife, aroused to desperation, began to administer a remedy upon her own responsibility, and while I grew better very slowly, 1 gained ground surely until, in brief, I ha,ve no trace of the terrible Bright’s disease from which I was dying, and am a perfectly well man. This may sound like a romance, but it is true, and my life, health and what 1 am are due to Warner’s Safe Cure, which I wish was known to and used by the thousands who, I believe, are suffering thi3 minute as I was originally. Does not such an experience as this justify me in making a public statement/” “It certainly does. But, then, Blight's disease is not a common complaint, Doctor.” . “Not common 1 On the contrary, it is one of the most common. The trouble is, few peopie know they havo it. Jt, has so few marked symptoms until its final stages that a person may have it for years, each year getting more and more in its power and not sutfpect it. It is quite natural I should feel enthusiastic over this remedy, while my wife is even more so than I am. She knows of its being used with surprising results by many ladies for their own peculiar ailments, over which it has singular power.” The statement drawn out by the above interview is amply confirmed by very many of our most prominent citizens, among them being Judge Heigel and Col. James S. Goodrich, of the Times, while Gen. Dwight H. Bruce and Rev. Prof. W. P. Coddington, D. D., give the remedy their heartiest indorsement. In this age of wonders, surprising things are quite common, but an experience so unusual as that of Dr. Martin’s, and occurring here in our midst, may well cause comment and teach a lesson. It shows the necessity of guarding the slightest approach of physical disorder and by the means which has been .proven the most reliable and efficient. It shows the depth to which one can sink and yet be rescued, and it proves that few people need suffer if these truths are observed.