Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — JUST AS BAD AS PAINTED. [ARTICLE]

JUST AS BAD AS PAINTED.

Widespread Commotion Caused by the Terrible Confession of a Physician. The story published in these columns recently, from the Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, created a deal of comment here ae it has elsewhere. Apparently it caused even more commotion in Rochester, as the following from the same paper shows: Dr. J. B. Henion, who is well known, not only in Rochester but in nearly every part of America sent an extended article to this paper, a few days ago, which was duly published, detailing his remarkable experience and rescue from what seemed to be certain death. It would be impossible to enumerate the personal inquiries which have been made at our office as to the validity of the article, but they have been so numerous that further investigation of the subject was deemed necessary. With this end m view a representative of this paper called Oh Dr. Henion at his residence on Andrews street, when the following interview occurred: “That article of yours, Doctor, has created quite a whirlwind. Are the statements about the terrible condition you were in and the way you were rescued such as you can sustain?” “Every one of them and many additional ones. I was brought so low by neglecting the first and most simple symptoms. I did not think I was sick. It is true I had frequent headaches; felt tired most of the time; could eat nothing one day and was ravenous the next; felt dull pains, and my stomach was out of order; but I did not think it meant anything serious. The medical profession has been treating symptons instead of diseases for years, and it is high time it ceased. The symptoms I have just mentioned, or any unusual action or irritation of the water channels, indicate the approach of kidney disease more than a cough announces the coming of consumption. We do not treat the cough, but try to help the lungs. We should not waste our time trying to relieve the headache, pains about the body, or other symptoms, but go directly to the kidneys, the source of most of these ailments. ” “This, then, is what you meant when you eaid that more than one-half the deaths which occur arise from Bright’s disease, is it, Doctor?” “Precisely. Thousands of diseases are torturing people to-day, which in reality are Bright’s disease in some of its many forms. It is a hydra-headed monster, and the slightest symptoms should strike terror to every one who has them. I can look back and recall hundreds of deaths which physicians declared at the time were caused by paralysis, apoplexy, heart disease, pneumonia, malarial fever and other common complaints, which I see now were caused by Brignt’s disease.” “And did all these cases have simple symptoms at first?” “Every one of them, and might have been cured as I was by the timely use of the same remedy. lam getting my eyes thoroughly opened in this matter, and think I am helping Others to see. the facts and their possible danger also.” • Mr. Warner, who was visited at his establishment on North St. Paul street, spoke very earnestly: “It is true that Bright’s disease had increased wonderfully, and we find, by reliable statistics, that from ’7O to ’BO, its growth was over 250 per cent. Look at the prominent men it has carried off, and is taking off every year; for while many are dying apparently of paralysis and apoplexy, they are really victims of kidney disorder, which causes heart disease, paralysis, apoplexy, etc. Nearly every week the papers record the death of some prominent man irom this scourge. Recently, however, tho increase has been checked, and I attribute this to the general uso of my remedy.” “Do you think many people are afflicted with it to-day who do not realize it?” “A prominent profossor in a Now Orleans medical college was lecturing before his class on the subject of Bright’s disease. He had various fluids under microscopic analysis and was showing the what tho indicat.ons of this terrible malady were. ‘And now, gentlemen,’ he said, ‘as we have seen the unfiealtuy indications I will show you how it appears in a state of perfect health,’ and he submitted liis own fluid to the usual test As he watched tho results his countenance suddenly changed—his color and command both left him, and in a trembling voice he said: ‘Gentlemen. I have made a painful discovery; 7 have Bright's disease of tho kidneys. ’ And in less than a year he was dead. The slightest indication of any kidney difficulty should be enough to strike terror to any one.” “You know of Dr. Henion’s case?” “Yes, I have both read and heard of it. ” “It is very wonderful, is it not?”

“No more so than a great many others that have come to my notice as having been oured by the same means.” “You believe, then, that Bright’s disease can be cured?” “I know it can. I know it from my own and the experience of thousands of prominent persons who were given up to die by both their physicians and friends.” “You speak of your own experience; what was it?” “A fearful one. I had felt languid and unfitted for business for years. But I did not know what ailed me. When, however, I found it was kidney difficulty I thought there was little hope and so did the doctors. I have since learned that one of the physicians of this city pointed me out to a gentleman on the street one day, saying: ‘There goes a man who will be dead within a year.’ I beliove his words would have proved true if I had not providentially used the remedy now known as Warner’s Safe Cure.” “Did you make a chemical analysis of the case of Mr. H. H. Warner some three years ago, Doctor?” was asked Dr. 8. A. Lattimore, one of the analysts of the State Board of Health. “Yes, sir.” “What did this analysis show you?” “A serious disease of the kidneys.” “Did you think Mr. Warner could recover?” “No, sir. I did not think it possible.” “Do you know anything about the remedy which cured him?” “I have chemically analyzed it, and find it pure and harmless. Dr. Henion was cured five years ago, and i* well and attending to his professional duties today, in this city. The standing of Dr. Henion, Mr. Warner, and Dr. Lattimore in the community is beyond question, and the statements they make cannot for a moment be doubted. Dr. Henion’s experience shows that Bright’s disease of the kidneys, is one of the most deceptive and dangerous of all diseases, that it is exceedingly common, but that it can he cured if taken in time. A person struck by lightning does not know it, the fluid being much quicker than thought. The nerves which convey pain are rather slow in their power to convey information. Stick a pin in the tail of an elephant and quite a perceptible interval occurs before the noble animal gives his opinion of the man or boy at the end of the nervous system on trial. Lightning does its work before the victim knows anything. Two men were struck while taking refuge under a tree. Both were carried into the house, and laid out for dead. One of the men revived, and after weeks of suffering and infirmity, he got eut again, and is still living. He said he knew no more about having been struck by lightning than he was conscious of having lived before the flood. It was all news to him when told of the fact. There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother for her son that transcends all other affections of the heart.— Washington Irving.

MJI J. D. L. Harvey, proprietor of the Palace Market, Chicago, writes that he spent $2,000 in trying to cure his wife of rheumatism, and that St. Jacobs Oil accomplished what all else failed tot bring about. He says it is a greater discovery than electricity.