The National tribune., 1885-06-11
FOUR ACTS PLAYEDI
Sad Report About Ex-President
Arthur.
Will the Fifth and Final Act be Tragedy
Rochester Democra. and Chronicle.l


Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.l
"Dr. Lincoln. who was at the funeral of ex.
Secretary Frelinghuysen, says ex-Presideni
Arthur looked very unwcll. He is suffering
from Bright's disease. During the past year il
has assumed very aggravated form"
That telegram is Act IV Of drama written by
ex-Prcsdent Arthur's physicians In Act l.
he was made to appear in Malaria" Of which
all the country was told when he went ia
Florida.
In Act II. he represented tired man, worn
down walking the sands at Old Point Comfort
and looking eastward over the Atlantic toward
Europe for longer rest.
The curtain rolls for Act III, upon the dis
tinguished actor affected with melancholy from
bright's disease. while Act " discovers him
with the disease " IN an aggravated form, suf-
fering intensely, (Which is unusual,) and about
to take sea voyage"
Just such as this is the plot of many dramas
by play-wrights ofthe medical profession. They
write the first two or three acts with no con-
ceptiOn of what their character will develop in
the final one.
They have not the disccrnment for tracing in
the early, what the latter impersonations will be.
Not one physician in a hundred has the ade-
quate microscopic and chemical appliances for
discovering bright's disease in its early stages,
and when many do finally comprehend that
their patients are dying with it, when death
occurs, they will, to cover up their ignorance of
it. pronounce the fatality to have been caused
by ordinary ailments, whereas these ailments
are really results of bright's disease, OF which
they are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, so per cent. of all deaths
except from epidemics and accidents, result from
diseased kidneys or livcrs. If thedying be dis
tinguished and his friends too intelligent to be
easily deceived, his physicians perhaps pro-
nounce the complaint to be pericarditis, pyamis,
septicamia, bronchitis, pleuritis, valvular le-
sions of the heart, pneumonia, etc. If the de-
ceased be less noted, malaria is now the
fashionable assignment of the cause of death.
But all the same, named right or named
wrong, this fearful scOurge gathers them in /!
While it prevails among persons of sedentary
habltS,-lawyers, clergymen, congressman -
1t also plays great havoc among farmers, day
laborers and mechanics, though they do not
suspect it, because their physicians keep it from
them, if, indeed, they are able to detect it.
1t sweeps thousands of women and children
into untimely graves every year. The health
gives way gradually, the strength is variable,
the appetite fckle the vigor gets less and less.
This isn't malaria-it is the beginning of kid
ney disease and will end-who does not know
how?
No, nature has not been remiss Independ-
ent research has given an infalliblo remedy for
this common disorder; but of course the bigot-
ed physicians will not use Warmers safe cure.
because it is private affair and cuts up their
practice by restoring the health of those who
have been inyaids for years.
The new saying Of "how common bri ght's
disease is becoming among prominent men I"
is getting old, and, as the Englishman would
say, sounds stupid Especially "stupid I"
since this disease is readily detected by the
more learned men and specialists of this dis
case. But the common run" of physicians
not detecting it, give the patient EPSON salts
or other drugs prescribed by the old code Of
treatment under which their grandfathers and
great -grandfathers practiced!
Anon, we hear that the patient is ' comforta-
ble." But ere long, maybe, they "tap" him
and take some water from him and again the
comfortable story is told. Torture him rather
than allow him to use Warmers safe cure !!
With such variations the doctors play upon the
unfortunate until his sarOud is made, when we
learn that he died Of heart disease, py8mia,
septic8mia or some other deceptive though
"digniied cause"
Ex-President Arthur's case is not singular
it is typical of every such case. He is suffer
ing intensely" This is not usual. Generally
there is almost no suffering. He may recover if
he will act independently of his physicians. The
agency named has cured thousands of persons
even in the extreme stages-iS to-day the main
stay of the health of hundreds of thousands.
1t is an unfortunate fact that physicians will
not admit there is any virtue outside their own
sphere, but as each school denies virtue to all
Others, the people act on their own Judgment
and accept things by the record of merit they
make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but there is
abundant hope i'll prompt and independent ac-
ton,