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THE HOME DOCTOR.
A Dietetic Experiment.
J. "W. C. Fegan, manager of a largt
school for boys in England, writes that
he has made a dietetic experiment -with
his pupils, substituting for meat oatmeal,
for white bread whole meal bread,
for tea cocoa; in fact, giving them a
rich and perfect vegetarian table. There
were 150 boys altogether. Two of them
lost in weight a quarter of a pound each;
148 gained five and three-quarters pounds
each during the first month. The afterdinner
ennui disappeared, and a healthy
spontaneity took its place in study and
in work. The expenses of the school
were markedly less, and altogether the
experiment was considered a very great I
success.?Herald of Health.
A Valuable Antiseptic.
Bisulphide of carbon, M. Pasteur
thinks, will become the most effecaciousjof
all antiseptics, as it is also the cheapest,
costing but a fraction of a penny per
pound in large quantity. It is likewise
the best insecticide known, and for this
purpose may, it is thought, be useful for
preserving woodwork in tropical countries.
Some idea of the use it is already
put may be gathered from the fact,
as stated, that more than eight million
pounds of the substance are used annually
to check the ravages of phylloxera.
Carbon bisulphide, as produced, though
an offensive compound in respect to odor,
is capable of complete purification.
Some Aches and Pains.
Back-ache is often a constant complaint
with overworked and delicate people.
They get little pity for it. It
seems almost a mockery to say: ''Remove
the cause." But this should be
done as much as possible, and an easy
position studied while at work. Steel
or steel with quinine will often do good,
and the strength should be kept well up.
As, however, back-ache is often connected
with internal complaint, which
may eventually prove intractable or incurable,
whenever it occurs for any
length of time a medical man should be
consulted.
Pain of all kinds is greatly relieved by
the use of the hot bath. This is a hint
which should not be forgotten.
Head-aclies.?These are of so many different
kinds that I caunot spare space to
say much about them. Rest, aperients,
absence for a time from food, and afterwards
mild doses of quinine, will be
found beneficial. But those who are
much subject to them must take the greatest
care how they live, and not neglect
plenty of wholesome, happy exercise in
the open air. Those who sit much during
the day should be careful to hold the
body as erect as possible.
Cold water applied frequently to the
head does good in fullness of the head.
The last often proceeds from a disordered
stomach and liver. The latter may be
congested, and, if only transiently so, one
or two anti-bilious pills will remove it.
The stomach and liver sympathize very
much with each other. When the latter
is out of order, the former will be acid.
Acidity of the stomach is a complaint
with many. I shall treat of it, I trust,
at a future day. Let me onl y here warn
those who suffer from it not to trust too
much to antacids, which always make
matters worse in the long run.
Slight colds and coughs should never
be neglected. Unless one actually calls
'in medical assistance, probably it is
better to trust to dietetic treatment,
with rest and warmth, than to
^purchase cough mixtures from the
shops, which may or may not be unskiliully
prepared. The worst of these is
that they so often contain such a quantity
of opiates that, even when they do
give relief, they leave want ot appetite,
constipation and general inaptitude foi
duty for days to come.
Chlorodyne is often taken for coughs
and colds. It is a dangerous remedy, in
that weak-minded poople are apt to take
doses of it so often that it becomes a
habit, and nothing could be more dangerous.
It leads eventually to chronic
ill health, and is sure to shorten life if
persisted in.
A sprain is apt to be neglected. Rest
and soothing applications, or even cold
water, will be sufficient to bring matters
straight very soon; but remember, many
a one has become a cripple for life from
neglecting a sprained foot or ankle.?
CasseWs Magazine.
A Boy Love Affair of Washington's.
George Washington was a tall, largelimbed,
shy boy of about fifteen when he
fell in love with a girl whom he seems to
have met when living with his brother
Augustine. He calls her, in one of his
letters afterward, a "lowland beauty,"
. and tradition makes her to have been a
Miss Grimes, who later married, and was
the mother of one of the young soldiers
wbn sr?rv<*d under Washington in the war
for independence. Whatever may have
been the exact reason that his love affair
did not prosper?whether he was too shy
to make his mind known, or so silent as
not to show himself to advantage, or so
discreet with demeanor as to hold himself
too long in reserve, it is impossible
now to say; but I suspect that one effect
was to make him wot k the harder. Sensible
people do not expect bovs of fifteen
to be playing the lover; and George
Washington was old for his years, and
not likely to appear like a spooney.?St.
Nicholas.
Digestibility of Cheese.
The digestibility of cheese depends a
good deal, according to Klenze, on its
'physical properties. All fat cheeses aro
dissolved or digested with great rapidity,
because the molecules of casein are separated
only by the fat, and so the solvent
juice can attack a large surface of the,cheese
atone time. Whether the cheese be hard
or soft does not appear to matter, and
there is no connection between the digestibility
and the percentage of water
ipresent in the case. The degree of ripeness
and the amount of fat have, however,
considerable influence, for both
ithesc conditions render the cheese more
friable, and so allow of intimate contac t
iof the juice. Chelder took the shortest
jtime to digest (lour nours;, w:nic unripe
'Swiss cheese required tea hours for solution.?London
Lancct.
Depravity of Inanimate Things.
Although it is said to be extremely uncomfortable
to stand on one's head, it is a
matter of fact that a tack will stand on
its head on the floor all day to catch you
as you walk across the room.
The paper that contains an article on
a subject in which you are greatly interested
always manages to get torn up, so
that you can only secure a piece containing
an absorbing portion, and not be able
to find the rest.
Lay your fishing lines down perfectly
straight, and when you go for them the
next time you will find them all ttingled
up in a perfect snarl of cussedness.
From all of which it would seem that
pretty much all the general cussedness
we encounter in this life comes from objects
not endowed with animal life.?
Puck. ,
FARM AND HOUSE,
MATTERS OF INTEREST'TO FARMER
AND HOUSEWIFE.
Cold Cream.
A great deal of work may be saved
now-a-day6 in churning if the cream is
warmed before putting into the churn.
The churn must be warmed also or it
may chill the cream. Churning does not
warm the cream as many seem to think.
Hot water will warm the churn by being
turned into it. it; snouiu uc icit ouuming
long enough to heat the chum all
through. The cream may be warmed by
the same means, by setting the cream
pot or pail into a tub of hot water. Never
f)our hot water into the churn only as a
ast resort. "When the cream froths it
is a sign it is too cold. A cheap thermometer
will save a great deal of guessing
and anxious waiting.?Oar Country
Rome.
"Whitewash.
Take half a bushel of unslacked lime,
and slack it with boiling water. Cover
it during the process. Strain it and add j
a peck of salt dissolved in warm water, '
three pounds of ground rice boiled to a |
thin paste, put in boiling hot, half a pound I
of Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean {
glue dissolved in warm water. Mix it and ;
let it stand several days. Keep it in a j
kettle and put it on hot as possible with 1
a brush. It is said to look as well and I
last nearly as long as oil paint on wood, !
brick or stone. A very simple wash may i
be made in the following manner: Slack i
as above, and add to each pailful half a I
pint of salt and the same quantity of
wood-ashes, sifted fine; this makes it;
thick like cream, and covers smoke much
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Strawberries from Runners.
After three years trial, writes a corre- j
spondent, I find that the best way to j
grow handsome and superior strawberries j
is to plant a new bed every year or two.
And decidedly the best and easiest way i
to do tills planting is to do it as soon as i
picking is over. Have the ground pre-1
pared and marked off with a line, sticking
in a bit of twig or weed stem about j
as long as a lead-pencil to mark the place I
for the hills (this for neat and exact garden
culture). Then on the first cloudy
day in July?don:t wait for August?take
a basin or shallow kettle and a pair of
scissors to the bearing bed and runners
enough will be found that have escaped
nipping. Scissor off these and retain the
joint bearing an incipient leaf and incip
lent roots. .Leave attacnea an incn or ;
so of the runner and cut off its extension
beyond the joint Throw these into the
water as prepared, and when a number
are collected take them to the new bed,
where, if the ground is light and mellow,
they can be planted as fast as they can
be picked up by merely pushing the
stump of runner horrizontally into the
soil and closing this compactly against
the young issuing roots. Such cuttings
grow more readily than plants with roots
and leaves of some length, because the I
roots are not in the least narmed, and be- |
cause there is so little leaf surface yet ex- i
posed. Still, it is best to plant in damp,
cloudy weather, and during the first week,
or until the young roots have gone down
to constant moisture, water must be ap- j
plied at the first sign of flagging. If they ;
begin to wilt under the beams of the summer
sun, pour water around them, no
matter what time of day it is. The gain
in economy of work and strength of
plants for good next June's produce by |
this mode is very great.
Mistakes of Farmers.
An exchange furnishes us with the fol- I
lowing list:
1. To think that anyone can farm; that
a man who has starved as a canvasser for
a patent tooth-pick, or has been unsuc- j
cessful as a carpenter, can jump into a '
business requiring high intelligence and ]
persevering efforts, and, being familiar !
with details, be able to make money.
2. The idea that a large farm, half I
stocked and poorly cultivated, pays better
than a few acres well and carefully
tilled.
3. What is it but the worst kind of a
mistake to pay hundreds of dollars for
good farm machinery, and allow it for :
want of proper shelter to rot and become ;
useless a year or sooner than it should?
4. It is a mistake to let year after year i
pass by with no attempt to improve the
quality of the farm stock. Blooded cattle
pays. They make beef quicker, and
the cows give more and richer milk. Better
blood in horses pays. A Norman or |
part Norman colt is a valuable piece of !
property.
5. To let foolish pride or narrow- i
minded jealousy prevent the adoption of |
new methods when they have been proved ;
by practical men.
6. To get up after the sun, lean on the
fork handle speculate for an hour or two
on what the weather is going to be, let
the weeds get a good start, and then
wonder why farming doesn't pay.
7. To leave a lot of unchopped, wet
or half-6plit wood at the pile, a lot of old j
harness hanging in the kitchen and
muddy tracks in the dining-room, and
expect to see the women folks good-natured.
8. To have a lot of half-fed,emaciated,
lonesome-looking fowls roosting dejec- i
tedly in some old cottonwood tree, when i
a few good healthy Plymouth Rock or
Brahma chickens, properly housed,
would make the poultry yard an honor instead
of a disgrace.
Value of Cob-Meal.
The question, Is there any value to ,
cob-meal? is answered by the Mumtchtt- j
setts Ploughman as follows: If the cobs
were to be ground separate, and the meal !
fed to the cattle unmixed with the corn- j
meal, it is very doubtful if it would pay;
but when the corn is ground with the j
cob and the meal thus mixed, it is be-!
lieved by those who have tried it that it ;
will pay?in fact, that it would pay even 1
if the cobs contained no nutritive tjuali- !
ties, because of the mechanical eiTect I
which the cob-meal has on corn-meal
while in the animal's stomach. "When J
corn-meal is fed unmixed it lays heavy j
in the stomach, and is not readily mixed I
with the liquid that is so important to ;
hasten digestion. When the body of
solid meal turns over in the stomach of :
the animal it does not change its compact
form so readily as is desirable, so :i 11 j
parts of it do not touch the lining of the j
stomach as they should: but when the
meal is lightened up with the meal of the I
cobs it greatly changes its nature and
brings it to a form which is much more
easily digested. For some animals the
advantage derived bv a more thorough
digestion is such that a peek of meal,
with the cob-meal included, is of more
value than a peck of clear meal.
It may be said that meal may be 1 ii-ht- |
ened up by mixing with it. wheat bran;
this is true, but too many farmers neglect
this; the bran has to be purchased;
this requires money, which the farmer
does not always have in quantites. .so he
thinks he cannot spare it; and when he
purchases it lie is not always willing to ]
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spend sufficient time to so thoroughly 1
mix it with the corn-meal as is the cobmeal
when the cob is ground with the
corn. There is another advantage of
grinding the cob with the corn?it saves
the trouble and expense of shelling.
Farmers are beginning to learn that to j
feed large quantities of clear meal ?t? j
farm stock is not economy, and, in fact,
that it is not beneficial to the health of
the animals, especially to pigs and hogs,
and even horses. The feeding of clear
fine meal to young chicks has killed large
numbers; the meal sogs together in the
on Vio r/1 +1-IO+ it pnnnnt. fHcTPSt. fllld
so the chick dies, and the owner rarely
suspects the cause.
Whenever corn-meal is to be fed to
swine, horses, or to poultry, there is but
little doubt it would be more profitable
to grind the cob with the corn than to
shell the corn, and thus have only the
clear meal to feed.
Babv Beef.
Considerable has been written recently
characterizing all steers under three years
old as producing meat little better than
veal, and stigmatizing it as "baby beef."
To show how erroneous this idea is, a
first prize was awarded at the late Fat
Stock Cattle show at Chicago to Messrs.
Elbert & Falls for the pure bred roan
Short-horn sixteen-months-old steer,
Cleveland. The committee reporting on
this class of animals pronounced him to
be "a perfect model for the block, with
little, if any, room for improvement. It
would be difficult to imagine how the
top, side and bottom lines could be made
better for inclosing a more compact
and profitable carcass. The steer was a
marvel, and a more perfect outline for a
profitable carcass has never been exhibited
at any previous show." Cleveland
weighed, alive, 1,290 pounds. His gain
from birth to slaughter was 2.60 pounds
per day. Throughout the show, he was
the most admired of all the entries on the
floor by all who critically examined him.
He netted, of dead meat on the block,
the remarkable percentage of 70.4. The
meat was sold at the fancy price of $10
per 100 pounds live weight, amounting
to lor tne sieer. ine generui mauager
of the hotel for which he was bought,
says the meat gave the best of satisfaction
to his patrons and guests, that it was
not "vealy" in the least, as some had predicted
it would be, but possessed all the
flavor and character of matured beef.
The steward and cooks of the house joined
in this opinion.
Lambs also under a year old, have been
slaughtered recently in England, the
mutton of which was pronounced equal to
that of older sheep. By hastening the
ripening of animals in this way, there is
much greater profit in rearing and feeding
them, for they gain faster in flesh during
the first year than in any subsequent
one, for the food consumed, and the capital
devoted to their breeding is more
quickly turned and made available for
raising other stock. In addition to these
advantages is the added gain of considerable
less risk from accidents, disease and
death. Farmers will do well to carefully
consider the above, and as soon as possible
adopt breeds of domestic animals
from which they can realize these sure
extra profits.?Rural New Yorker.
Recipes.
Baked Eggs.?Break eight eggs into
a well-buttered dish, season with pepper
and salt, one-half cup of cream, one
tablespoonful of butter, set in the oven
nnil I !.-? tirpntv mi nnf.es.
Fruit-Pudding.?One cup of molasses,
one cup of milk, two teaspoons of baking
powder, two eggs, three cups of
flour, half cup of melted butter, one cup
raisins, one cup currants. Boil two
hours or steam three.
Sour Milk Pudding.?One pint sour
milk, one-half pint of molasses, one teaspoonful
of powdered clove, one teaspoonful
of soda, one teaspoonful of cinnamon,
one cup of chopped raisins, a
little salt and flour, enough to make a
thin batter. Boil in a tin mold two
hours.
Bean Soup.?Soak one quart of beans
over night, put three quarts of water to
boil them. Use any kind of stock. Put
in onions, celery, carrots, a little summer
savory, with salt and pepper. Boil all
together three hours. When cooked
mash through a wire sieve, and warm up
when ready for the table. For white
beans it is nicer to use a little cream.
Almond Cake.?Two cups of sugar,
two and one half cups of flour, one half
cup of butter, one cup of milk, two teaspoons
of baking powder. Bake in layers.
For frosting and filling, whites of
two eggs, sugar to thicken, one and onefourth
pound of almonds. Blanch the
almonds by putting in hot water, and, j
when ready, take off the skins and shave
in thin slices, stir them in the frosting
on/1 cr\tv>'irl nn tViP tnn nnrl het.ween the
layers.
Household Hints.
Salt fish is improved by adding a little
vinegar to the water in which it is
soaked.
Hellebore, sprinkled on the floor at
night, destroys cockroaches. They eat
it and are poisoned.
The best way of removing tea and
coffee stains from fine damask, is to immerse
them at once in milk.
If boots that have become hardened
by moisture be rubbed with petroleum
they will be rendered quite soft.
A pretty way to put up cards for ornament
in one's own room is to take two
light and slender canes and cross them,
tie them together with ribbons, and put
a bow al each end, letting one band of
the ribbon go across from one end to the
other ?through this slip the cards.
Cogitations on the Top Rail.
The fun of sleighing is more in the
jingle of the bells than in the speed of
the trotter.
Memory fattens on trouble while the
body grows lean.
Never run when walking will answer
the same purpose?it is a useless waste of
tissue.
The grin on the other fellow's face is
far more aggravating than the fact that
he has just whipped you.
When a fellow really wants to fight he
does not scream for some one to hold
him.
It is a positive luxury to have some
folks abuse you.
If a business man publishes the fact
that honesty is his motto, the community
is apt to tight shy of him.
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IllTllt snot* is niori* ui it ivnuu man
cither a socialist or a boycottcr.
The problem of life will be solved
when you want nothing and can get
nothing.
It is always sonic one else's letters we
forget to mail.
When a man is painfully innocent
watch him.
Imprudence will take you further than
timidity and also get you whipped
ofteuer.?Detroit Free Press.
An owl four feet long from tip to tip
was killed the other day in the neighborhood
of Luthersville, Ga.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
After a tongue has once got the knack
of lying, it is not to be imagined how almost
impossible it is to reclaim it.
The most cross-grained are by no
inean9 the worst of mankind; or the
humblest in station the least polished in
feeling.
Good-nature, like a bee, collects its
honey from every herb. Ill-nature, like
a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest
flowers.
"Wealth," says Dr. Holmes, 1 'is a steep
hill which the father climbs slowly, and
which the son often tumbles down precipitately.
Old age is the night of life, ns night is
the old age of day. Still night is full of
magnificence, and for many it is more
brilliant than day.
The apprehension of evil is many times
worse than the evil itself; and the ill, a
man fears he shall suffer, he suffers in the
very fear of them.
Soft words may appease an angry man
?bitter words never will. Would you
throw fuel on a house in flames in order
to extinguish the fire?
If there is a right thing to be done,
and we seem to pass through a wrong
thing on our way to it, there's another
way to it, and a better one.
Stories heard at mother's knee are never
wholly forgotten. They form a little
spring that never quite dries up in our
journey through scorching years.
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A Mighty Cariboo Slayer.
Perhaps no one disciple ofNimrod can
point to a like success in ihe chase as
Vioo Vinnn fYnf?ripnmr1 hv Mr. .Tames
Porter, of Thibert Creek, Cassiar, who
under all circumstances is credited with
being a capital shot. While on a hunting
excursion during the winter of |
1882-3, in company with Mr. Chas. Cameron,
both of whom were armed with
Winchesters, and the cold being forty
to fifty degrees below zero, they came on
a band of thirteen cariboo browsing on
the bushes which are to be found on the
mountains above the timber line. Cameron
took one direction, while Porter
made a circle to take advantage of a
ridge, so that he might get within shot,
which he succeeded in ioing and fired
his first shot at 150 yards, which counted
one bagged. The band then started on
the run, and before they got out of reach
he had sped twenty-two bullets ' among
them, killing nine and wounding the
tenth severely. Night coming on, they
had to gather the slain, for the wounded
cariboo could not be followed, but when
the carcasses were skinned it was discovered
that the nine were hit nineteen
. times out of the twenty-two shots fired.
Last winter, Mr. Porter, while out
with Mr. B. Sullivan on a sporting trip,
came on a band of some fifteen or sixteen
cariboo on the mountains at the head of
Dease creek, and eclipsed all his former
feats of marksmanship. uwmgto ine
nature of the mountain side on which
they were feeding, Porter could not
possibly get nearer to them than five hundred
yards, so he quietly adjusted the
sight for that range, dropped on one
knee, and at the crack of his rifle there was
one cariboo less. At the sound of the
first shot they commenced running, and
before they came out of range, Mr. Sullivan
says, there were several lying at al:
most equal distances apart. Mr. Porter
told the writer that he did not take time
to raise his rifle sight as the distance in!
creased, but that he held at the top
of the back of the last two which he shot.
? Victoria (B. C.) Times.
Amonff the Bravest and Best.
Rough fellows of the olden time!
There is where the Bret Harte ideas
crops out. The fellows of the olden time
were not rough old fellows, but on the
contrary, those old fellows who came
here first were the bravest and most chivalrous
men on earth. They would not
have started to come had they not been
brave. And very many of them were
men of education and well read (not culi
tivatcd as things go now), although sometimes
some of those gentlemen did not
wear fine clothes.
William M. Stewart, whacking a bull '
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ceam lip 111 muse muuuiaui^ >> tio n ;
| man of as much brains, courtesy ]
and bravery as when he sat in the United
States Senate. John Bigler, when rolling
barrels on the Sacramento levee, was
as good a man as when John Bigler was
governor of California; John R. McConoell.
when he had on one old boot and one
old shoe and was ragged as to the rear
end of his trowsers, and while he was
"totin" shakes to the top of a cabin in
Nevada City, was then as fine a scholar as
the State can boast of to-day, and he was
as learned, polite and as considerate then
as when he afterward graced the State's
office of attorney-general.
We could specify many other instances
of learned men working at day's work in
olden times. The gulches in this country
were filled with scholars and gentlemen
who were fighting for fortune with picks
and shovels. Those men had neither the
manners nor the language attributed to
them by the writer of alleged California
stories.?Grans Valley (Cal.) Tidings.
Mr. 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 accomnlished
what all else failed to bring
about. He says it is a greater discovery
than electricity.
A Denver man drives a team of elks
capable of going one hundred miles a
day.
When a man's notes are readily endorsed.
his credit is good. When public
men endorse Red Star Cough Cure
as being safe, sure and free from poisons,
you may be certain it is a great discovery.
Price 25 cents.
The king's palace in Corca is now
lighted with electricity of the Yankee
brand.
Science is Approaching the cure of
consumption?a disease caused by a deposit
from the blood of impure matter in
the lungs. For stimulating to healthy
action the spleen, liver, kidneys and
organs skin, which remove waste and
poisonous matter, no Remedy is equal to
Dr. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters.
Evening funerals are fast coming into !
vogue in New York.
Expresses His Gratitude.?Albert A. Larson,
ol' Kirkman, Iu., writes to the proprietors
of Allen's Lung Balsam: "1 firmly believe my
wife would have died of consumption, if not
for the 1 imely use of your Balsam." Price 25c.,
50c. and $1 per bottle, at Druggists.
The death rate in Dakota is only five in the
1,000.
Lyon's Patent Metallic Stiffeners prevents i
boots and shoes from running over, ripping in
the seams or wearing unevenly on the heels.
Loldon has 300,000 dogs. New York has 500,
For removing dandruff and promoting the 1
growth of the hair, use Hall's Hair Renewcr. i
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,in thousands of cases,
has cured a cough in a few days.
" A TERRIBLE CONFESSION.
A Physician Presents Some Startling
Facta.
oan it be that the danger indicated is
universal.
The following story?which is attracting wide
attention from the press?is bo remarkable
that we cannot excuse ourselves if we do not
lay it before our readers entire:
To the Editor of the Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat.
Sin:?On the first day of June, 1881, I lay at
my residence in this city surrounded by my
friends and waiting for death. Heaven only
knows the agony I then endured, for words can
never describe it, And yet if a few years previous
any one had told me that I was to be
brought so low, and by so terrible a disease, I
should have scoffed at the idea. I have always
been uncommonly strong and healthy, and
weighed over JiOO pounds, and hardly knew, in
my own expox-ience, what pain or sickness
were. Very many people who will read this
statement realize at times they are unusually
tir?d and cannot account for it- They feel
dull pains in various parts of the body and do
not understand why. Or they are exceedingly
hungry one day and entirely without appetite
the next. This was just the way I felt when
the relentless malady which had fastened
itself upon me first began. Still I thought
nothing of It; that probably I had taken a cold
which would soon pass away. Shortly after
this I noticed a heavy, and at times neuralgic
pain in one side of my head, but as it would
come one day and be gone the next, I paid
llttlb attention to it. Then my stomach would
get out of order and my food often
failed to digest, causing at times great
inconvenience. Yet, even as a physician, I did
not think that these things meant anything
serious. I fancied I was suffering from malaria
and doctored myself accordingly. But I got
no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and
odor about the fluids I was passing?also that
there were large quantities one day and very
little the next, and that a persistent froth and
scum appeared upon the surface, and a sediment
settled. And yet I did not realize my
danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms
continually, I finally became accustomed to
them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed
by the fact that I had no pain in the affected
organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have
been so blind I cannot understand.
I consulted the best medical skill in the land.
I visited all the famed mineral springs in
America and traveled from Maine to Califor
nia. Still I grew worse. No two physicians
agreed as to my malady. One said I was
troubled with spinal irritation, another, dyspepsia;
another, heart disease; another,general
debility; another, congestion of the base of the
brain; and so on through a long list of common
diseases, the symptoms of many of which I
really had. In this way several years passed,
during which time I was steadily growing
worse. My condition had really become pitiable.
The slight symptoms I at first experienced
were developed into terrible and constant
disorders. My weight had been reduced
from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a burden
to myself and friends. I could retain no food
on my stomach,and lived wholly by injections.
I was a living mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable.
In my agony I frequently fell to
the floor and clutched the carpet, and prayed
for deathl Morphine had little or no effect in
deadening the pain. For six days and nights I
had the death-premonitory hiccoughs conI
stantly! My water was filled with tube-casts
and albumen. I was struggling with Bright's
Disease of the kidneys in its last stages.
While suffering thus I received a call from
my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, at that time rector
of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of this city.
I felt that it was our last interview, but in the
course of conversation Dr. Foote detailed to
me the many remarkable cures of cases lik*
my own which had come under hi* observation.
As a practicing physician and a graduate
of the schools, I derided the idea of any medicine
outside the regular channels being in the
least_beneflclal. So solicitous, however, was
Dr. *'oote, to at J nnauy promised i wuuiu
waive my prejudice. I began its use on tht
first day of June, 1881, and took it according to
directions. At first it sickened me; but thii I
thought was a good sign for one in my debilitated
condition. I continued to take it; the
sickening sensation drpart?d and I was finally
able toretain food upon mystomach. in afew
days I noticed a decided change for the better,
as also did my wife and friends. My hiccoughs
ceased and I experienced less pain than formerly.
I was so rejoiced at this improved condition
that, upon what I believed but a few
days before was my dying bed, I vowed, in the
presence of my family and friends, should I recover
I would both publicly and privately
make known this remedy for the good of humanity,
wherever and whenever I had an opportunity,
and this letter is in fulfillment of
that vow. My improvement was constant
from that time, and in less than three months
I had gained 126 pounds in flesh, became entirely
free from pain and 1 believe I owe my
; life and present condition wholly to Warner's
safe cure, the remedy which I used.
Since my recovery I have thoroughly re-investigated
the subject of kidney difficulties and
Bright's disease, and the truths developed are
astounding. I therefore state, deliberately,
i and as a physician, that I believe more than
one-haXf the deaths which occur in Amcrica are
caused by Bright's disease of the kidneys. This
may sound like a rash statement, but I am prepared
to verify it fully. Bright's disease has
no distinctive features of its own (indeed, it
often develops without any pain whatever in
* ' * -- u..?. A
tQ9 Kidneys or caoir yiuliuly;, ljui> una mo
lymptami of nearly every other common complaint.
Hundreds of people die dally, whose
burials are authorized by a physician's certificate
as occurring from "Heart Disease," "Apoplexy,"
"Paralysis," "Spinal Complaint,"
"Rheumatism." "Pneumonia," and the other
common complaints, when in reality it is from
Bright's disease of the kidneys. Few physicians,
and fewer people, realize the extent of
this disease or its dangerous and insidious nature.
It steals into the system like a thief,
manifests its presence if at all by the commonest
symptoms and fastens itself in the constitution
before the victim is aware of it. It i3
nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as
common and fully as fatal. Entire families,
inheriting it from their ancestors, have died
and yet none of the number knew or realized
the mysterious power which was removing
them. Instead of common symptoms it often
shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly,
from convulsions, apoplexy or heart
disease.
As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter
experience what he says, I implore every one
who reads these words not to neglect the
slightest symptoms of kidney difficulty. No one
can afford to hazard such chances.
I make the foregoing statements based upon
facts which I can substantiate to the letter.
The welfare of those who may possibly be sufferers
such as I was is an ample inducement
for me to take the step I have, and if I can
successfully warn others from the dangerous
path in which I once walked, I am willing to
endure all the professional and poraonal consequcnces.
J. B. HENION, M. D.
Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 30,
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