The Evening critic., 1884-12-05
WAS 1T A TRAGEDY 2
Lamentable Death of Two YOuul
Ladies' and tho Marrow Escape n

Lamentable Death of Two Young
Ladies' and tho Marrow Escape Of
the Third. ~
Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. %
Not long ago mother and daughter called
at the ONCE OF prominent New York phya
clan. The young lady was fair of face, gra5e-
full OF form, with complexion indicating
health, and yet her mother said there gas
every indication to her that she was tho prey
OF some mysterious disorder. At her reQi5bst
the physician made a searching examination.
Nothing was discovered. At the impordhni-
ties Of the mother, another physiclapawas
the same result.
In iels than three months tho youns lady
waB dead. III.
In the same city another prominent.ph
clan was visited recently by q young lsdy OF
attractive address, refined manners anu win
some appearance. M
She had scarcely stated her case when her
lips quivered, her face paled, her armsdropped
TO her side, and she was dead. III
She died alone with her physiciauy.hnd gos-
sips made high scandal, but post frortem OK.
animation showed that her death vas caused
by CONFUSION, and the voice OF s3ander was
hushed. These are facts which asn be sub.
Medical science does not tell us&lI VIC ought
TO know. tbs small aatisfectlonzfor us that
ind out the nature OF their diseRBes. Life 10
| great mystery; and II ia q sad commentary on
| present human attachments thst death Is the
only key which fiS in many casesfan unlock the
fhoro is someihing more tosSo dreaded than
cholera, more to be feared th3n consumption,
| which Is preying upon the hGhlth OF our young
| people, because, unlike them, Its approach is
the death it brings. MIR. oikries i. Stephens,
/ the weIl-known exporter, q51223 Third street,
Louisville, KY, had an experience somewhat
similar to the mother WHOSE case is above re.
lated. HIS daughter, WIEN but Q years OF
| age, seemed suddenly to+JirOop. She was ex-
ceedingly languid, was {tequently Frustrated
with headaches and neEous depression, and
the feeling of extreme Unique grew upon her
constantly. She couW scarcely breathe;
bldated so that she measured 40 inches around
the waist, and 1t seeI1ed that she would go
mad with agony. Evaty month she got worse
and worse, and 1lnaliY, as death seemed to be
obtaining the mastery, In alarm her case and
treatment were telyraphed to a prominent
New York speclallsb who, after due delbera.
tion, wired back TINT everything possible had
| been done and thatshe could not recover. In
three months froin that time, however, she
| began TO amend, hnd In n few weeks was
clothed with heath and 10 her right mind.
In the first chso mentioned, death was
caused by what is called Brights disease OF
the kidneysi inthe second, 1t was found that
uremlc blood1posoning, caused by the same
disease, prodv eed the fatal convulsiou, and 10
the third case death was threatened by the
same disordsr bnt was S2yyerted, when every
This result Fas accomplished three years ago
and the lapse OF time has shown that 1t was
not o merqtemporary effect.
| IL is eViIent that medical mon DO not know
everything, and yet how strange It Is that PEG
pie credMthem with omniscence and die 10
the delusion, ~ am not surprised," says
apce ap1 incapacity OF the profession concern
ing SUN disorders, that that compound Is 40
Ing sueh effective work. II II can accomplish
what Eve cannot, people are very FOOLISH Il
they 70 not resort TO It's use"
| ltfeems TO us that these three cases convey
alefsOn and Indicate course or proceedlnl
WHICH parents and young people cannot anord
| tO1gnUre.