AN UNUSUAL FURORE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7777, 8 May 1886, Page 4

AN UNUSUAL FURORE.

A short time ago since we copied into our colums from the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and Chronicle * A Professional Confession,’ made by J. B. Henion, M.D., a gentleman who is well known in this city. In that article Dr. Henion recounted a wonderful experience which befell him, and a few days thereafter we published from the same paper a second article, giving an account of the ‘Excitement in Rochester,’ caused by Dr. Henion’u statement. In the first article Dr. Henion stated that for a number of years, up to last June, he had been afflicted with what seemed at first a most mysterious trouble. He felt unnaccountably tired at frequent intervals ;he had dull and and indefinite pains in various parts of his body and head, and was very hungry one day, and entirely without appetite the next. However, aa a physician, he thought, aud so did his fellow physicians, that he was suffering from malaria. But yet he grew worse and was finally obliged to give up a large and lucrative practice. Still he was not conscious of his danger, nor that a monstrous disease was becoming fixed upon him, although his organs had become gradually weakened. The symptoms above described continued, accompanied by others of an aggravated nature, and he noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids he was passing; that they were abundant one day and very scanty the next, and were covered with froth, or filled with brick dust sediment. But even then he did not realise his real and alarming condition. At last, however, he was brought face to face with the fact that he was a victim of a most terrible disease, and he made heroic efforts for recovery. He travelled extensively, and consulted the best physicians, but they could give him only a temporary relief, and that principally in the form of morphine. And so he grew steadily aud constantly worse until his life became a torture. His pulse was uncontrollable. He lived wholly by injections, and for six days and nights he had the hiccoughs constantly, which are considered the sure indications of coming death.

When hope and life were nearly exhausted, his pastor, the Rev. Dr. Eoote, rector of St. Paul’s Church, strongly urged him to try a means which the reverend gentleman had seen used with remarkable results. He objected at first, but finally consented, and was conscious of an improved condition the first week. His pains gradually disappeared ; his stomach resumed digestion ; his heart became regular ; his headaches disappeared ; he had no more chills and fever, or acidity of the stomach ; he gained twenty-six pounds in three mouths, and is a well man to-day, being entirely cured of a most pronounced case of Bright’s disease. Although conscious of the consequences from his professional brethren, still as a duty to Ills fellow men, and according to a vow he made on what he thought was his dying bed, he published a card detailing his illness and remarkable cure. ‘ Since my recovery,* he says, * I have thoroughly reinvestigated the subject ef kidney difficulties and Bright's disease, and I believe more THAN ONE-HALF THE DEATHS WHICH OCCUR ARE CAUSED BY BRIGHT’S DISEASE OF THE kidneys. It has no distinctive symptoms of its own, (indeed, it often develops without any pain whatever in the kidneys or or their, vicinity,) but has the symptoms of nearly every other known complaint. Hundreds of people die daily whose burials are authorised by a physicians certificate of * Heart Disease,* ‘ Apoplexy/ Paralysis,’ « Spinal Complaint,’ ‘ Rheumatism/ ‘ Pneumonia/ and other common complaints when in reality it was Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realise the extent of this disease or its dangerous and insidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests its presence by the commonest symptoms and fastens itself upon the life before the victim is aware. It is nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as common aud fully as fatal. Entire families, inheriting it from their ancestors, have died, and yet none of the number knew or realised the mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of common symptoms it often shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly and as such is usually supposed to be heart disease. The second article entitled ‘ Excitement in Rochester/ was made up of interviews with Dr. Henion himself, who confirmed all said in his card, and also with Mr H. H. Warner. The latter gentleman did not regard Dr. Henion’s case as particularly ex ceptional, because he had known of very many such cures by the same means in all parts of the.land. Kidney diseases, hesaid, are carrying off tens of thousands every year, while Bright’s disease is increasing 250 per cent a decade, and yet the people do not realise it or seek to check it until too late. He related how a New Orleans medical professor, lecturing on this disease, thinking to show his class what healthy fluids were, subjected some of his own to a chemical test, and although he had no suspicion of it before, discovered that he, too, had the dreaded disease, which proved fatal in less than a year. There was also an interview with the celebrated chemist of the New York State Board of Health, Dr. S. A. Lattimore, who said he had analysed the remedy which cured Dr. Henion, and found that it was * entirely free from any poisonous or deleterious substances/ We have made these condensations in order that all the material facts may be set before our readers. Since the publication of-these two articles, having been besieged with letters of inquiry, we sent a coipmunication to Dr. Henion, and also one to H. H. Warner and Co., asking if any additional proof could be given us as to the validity of the statements published. In answer thereto, we have received the following letters, which add interest to the entire subject, and wholly verify every statement hitherto made: Gentlemen —Your favor is received. The published statement, over my signature, to which you refer is true in every respect, and I owe my life and present health wholly to the power of Warner’s Safe Cure. It is not surprising that people 'gjho.ulcl question the statement ! made, for my recovery was aa great a marvel to myself, as to’ my physicians, and friends, * * J, B. Henion, M.D. Sirs —Acknowledging your favor duly received, we would say : The best proof we can give you that the statements made by Dr. Henion are entirely true, and would not have been published unless strictly so, is the following testimonial from the best citizens of Rochester, and a card published by Rev. Dr. Foote, which you are at liberty to use if you wish. H. H. 7*o whom it nyay concern : In the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and CKronicle, there appeared a statement in the form of a card from Dr. J. B. Henion, of this city, recounting his remarkable recovery from Bright’s disease of the kidneys, after several doctors of prominence had given him up, by the use of a preparation manufactured in this city an’d known aa Warner’s Safe Cure.

We are ‘ personally or. by reputation acquainted with Dr, Renion, and we believe he would publish no statement not literally true. We are also personally or by reputation well acquainted with H. H. Warner & Co., proprietors of this remedy, whose commercial and personal standing in this community is of the highest order, and we belieye that they would not publish any statements which were not literally and strictly true in every particular. C. R. Parsons, (Mayor, Rochester.) Wm. Purcell, (Editor Union and Advertiser.) W, D. Shuart, (Surrogate Monroe County.) Edward A, Frost, (Clerk Monroe County.)

E. B. Fenner, (District Attorney Monroe County.) Daniel T. Hunt, (Postmaster, Rochester.) J. M, Davy, (Ex-Member Congress.) Jojin £). Morgan, (Spgcjal 00. Judge.) Hiram Sibley, (Capitalist and Seedsman.) W. O. Rowley, (County Judge.) John Van Vookhis, (Member of Congress.) Charles E. Fitch, (Editor Democrat and Chronicle and Regent of the University.) To the Editor of the Living Church, Chicago. Will you allow the following carcj, personal to myself, to appear in your widely circulated paper ! There was published in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle of the 31st of December last, a statement made by- J. B. Henion, M.D., narrating how he had been cured of Bright’s disease of the kidneys, almost in its last stages, by the use of Warner’s Safe Cure. 1 was referred to in that statement, as having recommended and urged Dr. Henion to try the remedy, which he did, and was cured. Now the republishing of his statement in many of the leading journals of the day has been the cause of an incessant flow of letters to me making many inquiries, but chiefly whether the statement was true, or a mere advertising dodge, etc., etc. I beg, therefore, to anticipate any further inquiries and save time and labor, and some postage, by saying that the statement of Dr. Henion is true, so far as it concerns myself, and I believe it to be true in all other respects. He is a parishioner of mine, and I visited him in his sickness. I urged him to take the medicine and would do the same again to anyone who was troubled with the disease of the kidneys and liver.—lsrael Foote, (D.D,), Rector of St, Raul’s Church,