Connecticut western news., 1884-12-31
WAS IT A TRAGEDY2
LnmeutRhle Death of Two Young Ladies and the Narrow Escape of the Third.
rc,neinnati Commercial aazetts.l

TCincinnati Commercial Gazettel
 Not long ago mother and daughter called at the office of prominent New York pbysi- clan. The young lady was fair of face, grace ful of form, with complexion indicating health, and yet her mother sa,d there was every indication to her that she was the prey of some mysterlous disorder. At her request the phys ician made a searching examination. Nothing was discovered. At the importunlties of the mother, another physician was called in and another examination made with the same re- suit.
 In less than three months the young lady was dead.
 In the same city another prominent physi- clan was visited recently by young lady of attractive address, r,hned manners, and win some appearance.
 She had scarcely stated her case when her lips quiyered, her face paled, her arms dropped 10 her side, aud she was dead.
 She died alone with her physician, and gos- sips made high scandal, but post mortem e1- animation showed that her death was caused by aconvulsion, and the voice of islander was hushed. These are facts which can be sub stantiated if need be.
 Medical science does not tell us all we ought to know. It is small satisfaction for us that death must lay our friends low before we can find out the nature of their diseases Life is a great mystery; and it is a sad commentary on present human attainments that death Is the only key which in many cases can unlock the depths of this mystery.
 There is mething more to be dreaded than cholera, more to be feared than consumption, which IS preying upon the health of our young people, because, unlike them, It's approa ch is insidious, and we know of it's presence only by the death it brings. Mir. Charles k. Stephens, the weL-known exporter at 1928 Third St., Louisville, Ky, had an experience somewhat similar to the mother whose case is above re- lated. His daughter, when but nine years of age, seemed suddenly to droop. She was ex- ceedingly languid, was frequently prostrated with headaches and nervous depression, and the feeling of extreme fatigue grew upon her constantly. She could scarcely breathe; could retain nothing on her stomach, she bloated so that she measured 45 inches around the waist, and 1t seemed that she would go mad with az ony. Every month she got worse and worse, and finally, as death seemed to be obtaining the mastery, in alarm her case and treatment | were telegraphed to prominent New York specialist, who, after due deliberation, wired back that everything possible had been done and that she could not recover. In three mouths from that time, however, she began 10 amend, and in few weeks was clothed with health and in her right mind.
 Ia the first case mentioned, death was caused by what is called bright's disease of the | kidneys, in the second 1t was found that uremic blood poisoning, caused by the same disease, | produced the fatal convulsion, and in the third case death was threatened by the same disorder, but was ayerted, when every other means failed, by warner's safe oure This result was accomplished three years ago and the lapse of time has shown that it was not A mere | temporary q fleet.
 It is evident that medical men do not know everything, and yet how strange it is that peo- pie credit them with omniscience and die in the delusion. q am not surprised, !" says candid physician, stwhen I know the ignorance and in- capacity of the profession concerning such disorders, that that compound is doing such effective work. If t can accomplish what we cannot, people are very foolish if they do not resort to it's usen
 It seems to us that these three cases convey lesson and indicate @ course of proceeding which parents and young people cannot afford to ignore.