Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-04
SUDDEN DEATHS.
The Cause and Increase Of These Mysteri-
o,ss Visitdti0,ss Accounted for.

The Cause and Increase Of These Mysteri.
oms Visitati0,ss Accounted for.
Every careful reader and observer must
have noticed the large number of sudden
deaths which have occurred among the
leading men of the country during the past
year. Every few days the telegraph an.
nounces that some prominent man, whose
name is household word in the communi
ty. has been instantly called upon to die
short time ago the Hon. Horace May
nard, exp. M. General, and ex-Minister to
Turkey while in the full prime of manhood
was stricken suddenly and died.
Henry w. Longfellow was taken sudden.
ly ill, and in few hours the world was in
in tears over the distinguished poets grave
On the 9th of April, Ralph Waldo En-
erson exposed himself to an unusually
inclement day, and in few hours he was
dead.
L. Rev. S. Weed, DID,, pastor of prom
inent church in Brooklyn, hailed friend
on the street during the early part of July
and before he could complete the half-ut-
tered sentence dropped dead.
On Sunday April I'd, while the Rev. John
P. Newman, D. D., the famous 'court
preacher of Gen. Grants terms of Office,
was preaching at the Madison Ave. Con-
gregational Church, New York, he was sud-
denly overcome with intense pain and was
carried to his home in an insensible con-
dition.
A few months ago Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, while lecturing before a large
audience in Chicago, was unexpectedly at
tackled with mysterious illness, and as his
body quivered with passing anguish the
large audience was filed with fear that the
end of the great preacher had come.
The list could be continued almost in
definitely, and includes such prominent
names as Hon. Clarkson n. Potter, Hon.
Thomas Allen, and many other eminent
Americans, to say nothing of leading
Europeans, among whom is the lamented
Professor Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, the re-
nowned Russian General Skobeloff and
others.
These events happening within few
weeks of each other, and occurring to per-
sons who are conspicuous in public life,
naturally arouse the attention of the pub
lie, and raise the query as to the cause of
these sudden deaths.
Heart disease, vertigo, apoplexy, paraly-
sis and similar complaints are all effects,
not causes. The real cause is to be found
in weakened condition of the system
brought about by the neglect of some vital
organ. Professor William Roberts, of the
Royal college of physicians, London. Eng,
recognized authority of the highest char
acter, treating on the condition of the hu-
man system which causes sudden deaths,
and which state had evidentlyIbeen reach
ed by the persons named above, says:
mi a.
but is part of a widespread tissue olsen
tegration involving the entire body" It
seems, therefore, that the diseases which
eliminate so suddenly and bring death in
stantly, are slight in their origin, slow in
their development and can be traced TO
minor causes, which, if taken in time,
would wholly avoid these sad consequent
ces, and final sudden end.
Some of the minor symptoms which in
dictate the beginnings of such troubles are:
Twitching and commissions of the muscles,
headache, drowsiness, defects Of sight and
hearing, nausea, persistent hot and dry
skin, peculiar transparent appearance of
the skin, disturbance of the digestive func-
tions and sourness of stomach, alternate
hilarity and depression of spirits, swelling
of the ankles and legs, rheumatic pains in
various parts of the body, mysterious nerv-
GUS irritability, frequent attacks Of pleuri-
sy, vertigo, dizziness, oppression in the
chest, shortness Of breath, painful uneasi-
ness in the loins with frequent and dis
tressing backache, watery condition of
the blood, ETC., etc. Any one of these
symptoms or more, may be manifested,
until the human system will, by slow de-
grees become SO prepared for any sudden
sttack of disease that when it comes there
is rapid, and sometimes instantaneous de-
velopment of terrible maladies. Then re-
lief is out of the question, restoration to
health impossible, and the patient sue
cumbs to quick and dreaded death.
But the highest scientific and medical
authorities who have carefully examined
these symptoms, and traced them to their
source, seem with one accord to agree
that they are in due the majority of cases
to a disordered condition of the kidneys
which disorders although SO common are
often unrecognized. The reason for this
can be readily explained. It is the Office
of the kidneys to remove the surplus water
and decomposed matter from the blood.
This waste matter is virulent poison, and
it is especially injurious to the nerves and
nerve 1centers, producing tumors of the
worst kind, aneurism of the heart, and a
general weakening of the nervous and mus
cular system. And sudden congestion,
such as overlook the poets Longfellow and
Emerson, or the other prominent names
mentioned above, almost certain to cause
sudden death, such as threatened Revs.
Beecher, Newman and many other men
similarly constructed.
Suicide.
CHICAGO, Oct. 3.-Meysr Marcus, form
erly well-known dealer in furs in this
city, committed suicide by shooting, in
Lincoln park this morning. Cause, finan-
cial embarrassment. He leave wife and
daughter in Vienna, Austria, and sons in
California.