Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1882 — THE HIPENDING FATSE. [ARTICLE]

THE HIPENDING FATSE.

Am latcTMtUf Ckaptor (nm tk< Ufa •* a Pnatamt »•■*■■!■■■ [Tram tka Bosto* Ok**.] The reader* at this paper wm* mon or Im* •mazed at a most remarkable statement from one of our leading citizens which appeared in yesterday’* issue. So onusßol ware the drenmstanee* connected with it* and so modi comment did it occasion on the street and in social circles, that a representative o t this paper was commissioned to investigate its details and verify its facta. The article referred to was a statement nude by Mr. A F. Lam bee, of the blew York and Boston Dispatch Express Company, whose offioe is on Audi street Mr. Larraboe was found by the newspaper man in his priviUo offloe, and on being questioned said: “ Well, sir, logically I have been dead, but really lam as you can see me. A little over a year ago I waa taken sick. My trouble was not severe at first and I thought it was the result of a slight oold. Somehow I felt unaccountably tired at times although I took an abundauoe Of sleep. Then, again, I bad dull and strange pains m various parts of my body. My appetite was good one day and I had none whatever tue next and my head pained me more or less much of the time. A while afterward I noticed much that was peculiar about the fluids I was paasng and that a sediment, scum and a strange accumulation appeared in it Still I did not realise that these things meant anything Morions and I allowed the illness to ran along until on the 38th day of October I fell prostrate while walking along Tremont street I was earned home and did not go out of the house until 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 ; 1 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. Bowditoh 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 spites however, of the skill of the physicians, I kept growing worse, and finally they tapped my side In the vioinity of the heart, taking away fortysix ounces of water. This relieved me for the time, but I 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, fair 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 which described my disease and sufferings exactly. It told how soma severe cases of Bright’s disease had been cured, and so clearly and sensibly did it state the ease that I determined to try the means of cure which it described. Bo I sent my man to the drag store, procured a bottle of the medicine, unknown to my physicians and friends, and took the first dose at 10 o’clock. At that time I was suffering intensely. I could not sleep; I had the short breaths and could scaroely get any air into my lungs. I was terribly bloated from head to foot, and the motion of my heart was irregular and painful. The next morning I was able to breathe freely; the pain began to leave me and the bloating decreased. I continued to take the medioine, and to-day, sir, I am as well as 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 medioine is made of, os 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 sinoe and has cured manv of my friends to whom I have recommended it. There are a number of very remarkable oases in Lynn and Salem, as well as in this city, that it has cured. My recovery is so remarkable that it has exoitod much attention, and physioians as well as others have investigated it thoroughly. lam glad they have, for I feel that the results of such a wonderful euro should be known to the thousands in all parts of the land who are suffering from (roubles of the kidneys, liver or heart, In some of their many dangerous forms.” The representative of the press thanked Mr. Larrabee tor his very frank and dear statement, and was about to leave the offioe when a gentleman stepped up to him ahd inquired if he were seeking information about Mr. Larrabes’s sickness and recovery. The scribe replied that he was, whereupon the gentleman said: “And so am A, ana I have come all the way from Chicago for that very purpose. Kidney troubles seem to be alarmingly Increasing all over the country, and I have a very near relative who is afflicted 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” 41 What did ne say ?” asked the man of news. “Say! why, sir, they fully oonfirm every-' thing Mr. Larrabee has stated. I went to see Dr. D. A. Johnsen, at 20 Worcester street He was absent when I called, and so I stepped into the Commonwealth Hotel, where Mr. L&rrabee was living at the time of bii sickness. Messrs. Brugli & Carter are proprietors, and 1 asked them about Mr. Larrabeo’s case. Mr. B ugh pointed to the eleotrio annunciator and said, ‘ Why, for weeks and weeks, every time that bell rang I said : That means the death of Mr. Larrabee. No one aronnd the hotel ever dreamed that he wonld recover, and when ths doctors would come down from bis room they would shake their heads and say there was no hope. The arrangements for the funeral were made and hii reoovory was simply a miraclo. ’ “I then called on Dr. Johnson, who said that Mr. Larrabee’s case was a very remarkable one. He was his family physioian and expeoted 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 »e----covery was due to Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and if he had friends, male or fomale, troubled with albumen or any kidney troubles he should certainly advise them to use this remedy. Dr. Johnson said kidney difficulties are more common than most people think, and that many symptoms 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 I then came down and called on Dr. H. Ingersoll Bowditoh, on Boylston street The old doctor was inclined to be reticent but fully confirmed all I had previously learned. Be had attended Mr. Larrabee, and supposed him beyond all hope, and he waa afterward restored, as he said, by Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.

“ I next went to seo Dr. Melville E Webb, at tho Hotel Cluny, for you aee I was determined to be thorough in the matter. I found Dr. Webb a most clear-headed and well-informed gentleman, and he said: “ 4 1 know of Mr. Larrabee’s oaso from having thoroughly investigated it as a medical director of a life insuranoe company, and it w one of the most remarkable cases 1 have ever met. Mr. Larrabee had all the manifestations of a comSlication of diseases, and in their worst forms. ie had albumen and oasts 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 the night when he was so bad and when all nis medical advisers had long given him up that he began using Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. The next morning at 10 o'clock he was able to breathe freely, ana has been ever since. I subjected him to the most thorough examine-

ttO’j possible, after bis recover ?, and • lent find out about him.’ His kidneys, liver, lungs and heart ore perfectly well and sound. I can only add tbit from What I have seen, I would unhesitatingly recommend this remedy.’ ” The comansions from the statements above made which come to the newspaper monos well M the general public, must be two-fold. First, that a modern miracle of healing has been performed in our midst, and that, too, by the 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 oomplamt Its beginnings are slight and its growth slow. The symptoms by which it may he 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 which bad attacked him until it became fixed upon him. Secondly, testimonials of suoh high character, and so out-spoken in tone, conclusively prove the value of the remedy and its superior nature to the proprietary articles with which the public have been flooded. “Tbs greater includes the less,” and the remedy which has been proven so valuable and has saved a life after it was brought to death’s door, must unquestionably be oertain la all minor troubles which are so disastrous unless taken in fame.