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afr* we. E. MERTON COULTER THE ATHENS BANNER. t VOL. III. ATHENS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 19. 1882- NO- 66 ’Mm A REMARKABLE STATEMENT. \ The I'nuvial Kxpenpass of • Prominent Hon Mode Public. The following ortiMe from the Democrat aud Chronicle, of ltochea- ter, V., ia ofso striking a nature, and emanates from so reliable a source that it ia herewith re-published entire. In addition to the valuable mutter it contains, it will be found exceedingly interesting. To (As Editor of the Democrat and Chronicle: Sin:—My motives for the publica tion of Hie most useful statements which ln!low are, first, gratitude for the fact that I havu been saved from a most horrible death, and, secondly, . a dteiru in warn oil who read ibis statement against some of the. most deceptive influences by which they haveever bepn surrouuded. -It is a tact that to-day thousands of people aie within a toot of Uio grave and ■ -they do not "know it. To tell how 1 was c»anIIt awayfroiu just this posi- tion itud to warn ether- from nearing it, are’my objects in this communica- .tion. On the first duy of June 1881, I lay at niy.'residence in this city eur- ; roUpded by my triends and waiting .' lor death. Heaven only knows the agony 1 then endured, for words can never describe it. And yet, if a few . years previous, any one Imd told me that I was to bu brought so low, and ■ by so terrible a disease, I should have sculled at the idea. . I had always liecn imaoiii'iionly strong and healthy, had weighed‘Oyer i!U0 pounds nud_ < hardly, fci.-qw, in ally own experience,’ 'whal.pain or siok.ioia were. Very . many peoplu who willVead this stale, meat realise at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for it. Tb’oy lcel dull and indefliuile pains in vinous parts of the body and do not understand it. Or they are exceedingly hungry ono day and en tirely without appetite the next. This was just the way I felt when the re lentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought it was nothing; that probably I bad taken a cold which would toou pass away. Shortly after this I no ticed a dull, and at times neuralgic, pain in my head,but as it would come one day and be gone the next, I paid but little attention to it. However, my stomach was out of ordurand my food often tailed to digest, causing at times great inconvenience. Yet I had no idea, even as a physician,that these tilings meant anything serious or that a monstrous disease was be coming fixed upon me. Candidly, I thought 1 was suffering from Malaria i nd so doctored myaeit accordingly. Hut I got no better. 1 next no ticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing—also that there were large quantities one day aud very little the next, and that a persistent froth and soum appeared upon the surface, and a sediment set tled in the bottom. And yet I did not realise my danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, J finally became accustomed to them, and my suspioioa Was wholly disarmed by the fact that I bad uo pain in the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why ! should have been so bliud I cannot nnderetai.d- There is,a terrible future for all > physical Mgleet, and impending dan ger. usually, brings a person to his, senses Sven .though it be too late. I’ realised,'at last, my critical condition •ltd aroused myself to owcqme it. And, Oh 1 how hard Ftried 1 I- con sulted the'best, mod ioal skill-(ti the land. I visited all the*'prominent mineral springs in America and trs-g clod from Maine to California. Still 1 grew worse. No two physicians , agreed as to my malady. Oat gold I waa troubled with spinal irritation, anothor, nervous prostration; another, malaria; another, dyspepsia; another, heart diseaae; anothor, general debili- ty; another, congestion of the base at the brain; and so on through a long list of eummon diseases, the symp toms of all of whieli I really had. In this way several years passed, during all of which yihVl was steadily grow ing worse. Jdv condition Imd really become pitiablf.' The slight symp toms I at first .rifafjrjence-l were do veloped into terrible -and constant disorders— the liUWlwigh of paiu hud grown to oiks of ngotfy;^ .My weight had been reduced Irani 207 to 130 pounds. My life was n torture to myselfand friends. 1 could retain ho lend Upon njy stomach, and lived wholly by injections. I wns a living mass of pain. My pulse was ancon- trolable. Iii my agony I frequently full upon the floor, convulsively clutched the carpet, and prayed for death. Morphine iisd little or no ef fect in deadening the paiu. l<'or six days and nights I hud tile death.pre monitory liiuuoughs constantly. My urine was tilled with tube casts and nllminvii. I was struggling with Bright,’. Disease of the Kidneys in its ia-t stages. While suffering thus, I received call from my pastor, the Kev. Dr. Foote, rector of ei. Paul’s clmrah, of lhi» city.. I felt that it was otir Inst interview, but in the course of eon- venation hu mentinueu a remedy of which I bail heard much but had nev er used. Dr. Foote detailed to mi the many remaiknhlu cures which had come tinder his observation, by means oftbia remedy, and. urged me to try it- As n practicing physician aild-a graduate of the schools, 1 cher ished the prejudice both natural and common with all regular practition era, and derided the idea ct any med icine outside the regular channels Im in; the last beneficial. So solicitous, however, was'Dr. Foote, that l final ly premised 1 would waive my prejus dice and try the remedy lie so highly recommended. I began its use on the first day of Juno and took it accord ing to directions. At first it sickened me; but this I thought was a good sign for one in iny debilitated condition I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed aud I was able to retain Ibod upon my stomach. In a few days I noticed a decided change tor the better ns also did my wife and Irieinis. My hiccoughs ceased and I experienced less pain than formerly. I was |so rejoiced at this improved condition tlml, upon what I had be lieved but a few days before was my dying bed, I vow-d, in the presence ot my family and friends, should I re cover I would both publicly and pri vately make known this remedy for the good of butnaniiv, wherever and whenever I bud an opportunity. I also determined that I would give a course of lectures in the Corinthian Academy of .M usig of ibis city,Mating in full tho symptoms nnd almost hope- leuuess of my disease and - the re markable'mean* by which I have been saved. My improvement was eonstant from that limo, and in less than three moDibs I had gained 26 pounds in flesh, became entirely free f om pain and I believe I owe my life and pres ent condition wholly to Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cute, the remedy which! used. • Sines* my recovery I have thorough- ly re-investigated the subj-ct of kid- uey difficulties und Bright's disease, and the truths developed are astound ing. I therefore slate, deliberately and as a physician, that I believe morethnn one half of the deaths which occur in America are caused by Bright’s Disease'oftbe Kidneys. This may sound like a rash statement, but I am prepared to tally verify ill Bright’s Disease line no distinctive symptoms of its own, (indetJt it often develops without any pain wbjuaver tn Abo. kidneys or their vicinity,) but* tee the symptoms of nearly every cutlet mt, KheiiinaUsm, icr Mumflm Viom iityflHi- Right’s tysmVow ply id- other known coinpluitit. Hundreds of people die daily, whoso burials are authorised by n pnysician’s certilicale ot Heart Disease, Apoplexy, Paral ysis, Spinal Complaint, Khem^jtism, Pneumonia, and olhei plaints, wlien in renlit Disease ot tho Kidney ciaus, nnd fewer people, realise the extent of this disease or its dange rous and insidious nature. It steals into the system I ke a thief, manifests its prcsetice by tho vrnimioneat symp toms, and fastens itself upon the con stitution before the victim is aware. It is nearly as hereditary us consump tion, quite as common nml fully as fatal. Entire families, inheriting it from their ancestors, have died, aud yet none of tins number knew or re alized the mysterious power which was removing them, fnstead of entile ■non sympiotus it often shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly, and ns such is usually supposed to be heart diseas a. As one who has suf fered, and knows by bitter experi ence what he says, I implore every one who reads these words not to neg lect the slightest symptoms of Kidney difficulty. Certain agony and possi ble death will be the sure result of such neglect, and no one can ufl'ord to hazard such chances. I am aware that such an unquali tied statement us this, coming front me, known as I am throughout tlie entire land as a pracliti„nir und It turer, will arou-e the surpriso and possible animosity ot the medical profession aud uslonisli all with wlli.JP I am acquainted, but I make the loregomg statements based upon facts which I am prepared to produce and truths which I can aub- -tnuiinte to the loiter. The welfare ot these ivbo may possibly be suf ferers, such as I was, is an ample ii > dunemeni for ntu to take the step I have, and if i can successfully warn others from tne dangerous path iu which 1 once walked, 1 am willing to endure all professional aud persmal consequences. J. B. 1 iunion', M. D. Rochester, N. Y., Dee. 3U, 1881. JEFFEItSOVS SVS'fEJI. Homo Courier. If, out of all ; the differences and controversies ot 'he present duy over tlie tariff, the finances, civil sorviue, etc., we could Only return to the sim plicity and ecqjiomy of Mr. Jefferson's system el government, how prosper ous, united and powerful this country would be! Tins is the Jeffersonian system in brief; ''Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from thnso of ail other nations, except its to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our Gensral Gov ernment may bo reduced to a very simple organization and a very inex pensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.” A Scrap of History. 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