Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — EXCITEMENT IN ROCHESTER. [ARTICLE]

EXCITEMENT IN ROCHESTER.

Widespread Commotion Cauqpd by That Remarkable Statement of a Physician. The story published in these columns recentljr.’irom the Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat, created a deal of comment here as 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, tent an extended article to thia paper, a few days ago, which was duly published, detailing his remarkable experience and rescue from what seamed to be certain death. It would be impossible to enumerate the personal inquiries which have been made at our o Bee as to the validity of Xhe article, but they have been so numerous that further investigation of the subject was deemed an editorial necessity. With this end in view a representative of this paper called on Dr. Henion at his residence on Andrews street, when the following interview occurred: ‘"That nr icle of yours,Doctor, has created quite a whirlwind. Are the statements about the terrible condition you were in, and tho 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 t red most of the time; could eat nothing ope day, and was ravenous the next: felt dull pains and my stomach was out ot order, but 1 did not think it meant anything serious. The medical profession have been treating symptoms instead of diseases for yeirs, 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 direct.'y to the kidneys, the source of most of these ailments." ‘•This, then, is what you meant when you said 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 Bright’s disease.” “And did all these cases have simple symptomsat 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 was visited at his establish- ‘ ment on North St. Paul street. At first he was inclined to be reticent, but learning that the information desired was about Bright’s disease, his manner changed instantly and he spoke very earnestly: - - “It is true that Bright’s disease had increased wonderfully, and we find, by reliable statistics, that from ’lO to ’BO, its growth was over 250 per cent. Look at the prominent men it has carried off: Everett, Sumner, Cha-e, Wilson, Carpenter, Bishop Haven, Folger, Colfax, and others. Nearly every week the papers record the death of some prominent man from this scourge. Recently, however, the increase has been checked, ami I attribute this to the general use of my remedy.” “Do you think many people are afflicted with it to-day who do not realize it, Mr. Warner?” ■ ”■ ....~ “A prominent professor in a New Orleans medical college was lecturing be fore his class on the subject of Bright's disease. He had various fluids under microscopic analysis and was showing the students what the indicacations of this terrible malady were. ‘And now, gentlemen,’ he said, ‘os we have seen the unhealthy indications, I will show you how it appears in a state of perfect health,’ and he submitted his own fluid to the usual test. As he watched the 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; I have Bright’s disease of the kidneys.’ And in less than a year he was dead. The slightest indications of any kidney difficulty should be enough to strike terror to any one.” “You know of Dr. Henion’s case?” “Yes, 1 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 cured by the samo means.” “ You believe, then, that Bright’s disease can be cured.” * “ I know it can. I know it from my own and tho 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 1 ittle 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 believe his words would have proved true if I had not provident aly used the remsdy now known as Warner's Safe Cure.” Dr. S. A. Lattimore, although busily engaged upon some matters connected with the State Board of Health, of which he Is one of the analysts, courteously answered the questions that were propounded him: “Did you make a chemical analysis of the case of Mr. H. H. Warner some three years ago, Doctor?” “Yes, sir." “What did this analysis show you?” “The presence ot albumen and tube casts in great abundance.” “Ana what did the symptoms indicate?" “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.” “Yes. I have chemically analyzed it and find it pure and harmless.” We publish the foregoing statements in view of the commotion which the publicity of Dr. Henion s article has caused, and to' 1 meet the protestations which have been made. The Doctor w-.s cured four years ayo and is well end attending to his professional 'duties to-day. The standing' Of Dr. Henion, Mr. Warner and Dr. Lattimore in the community is beyond question and the statements they make cannot for a mo nent be doubted. Dr. Henion's experience shows that Bright’s disease of tne kidneys is one of the most deceptive and dangerous of all diseases, that it is exceedingly common, and that it can be cured. ' Between infancy and the ballot-box a man tumbled into many pitfalls of error; but about the biggest mistake he ever makes with his eyes open, is when he goes carefully along, with the lantern of reason in one band, the staff of prudence in the other, seeking happiness in the pathway of matrimony, and then, like an old fool, tells his wife what a staving good cook his mother is. If there is anything above ground more thoroughly permeated with blissful serenity than a woman with some new clothes, it is a boy who has just learned to whistle.