Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-08
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.


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The New York Herald says "If General
Grant should recover from n disease which
should prove not TO have been what Il has been
described, then his medical attendants
will be expected TO explain the rcasous for one
Of the most remarkable instances Of discrepancy
ever rccounted In the history of medical prac'
the last stages of consumption, unable longer TO
talk, asked Tor pen and paper and ind!stinctly
wrote this advice TO his physicians Make dy-
:, This seems 70 have been the sole purpose OF
were making dying comfortable. but they were
not curing their patient. He ainazes them Ny
The utter failure TO rightly diagnose and prop
erly To treat Genera, Grants disorder was a So.
been. said that professional treatment, being
purely experinentai, Is Just as likely to DC
Had the general an ulcer on his arm the ply
sicians would have treated II scientifically, very
might have cut his arm on Some DEAR old so
of grandmother, however, might have treated
healed il, but there would have been no T" pro- pro-
fcssional science In such n proceeding, as her
remedy would not be one recognized by the
The generals physicians excuse themselves,
we are told, because the condition OF the throat
cases where disease is hidden from sight, where
the The symptoms are very obscure and conflicting
The physicians VIII treat everyduy's symptoms
| but they do not cure, and finally the patient
/ dies Then they discover they have made n mis-
| take A horrible mistake! The other day "a
| prominent merchant In neighboripg city was
found dead In bed post mortem cxannation, y.
organs was entirely dccayed, and yet his physL
clans had been treating him for heart disease I!
| Some one has blundered.
For weeks the American public have been
waiting the unwelcome tidings OF General
Grants death. To-day, the general Is up and
| around ana riding out.
People get well often in spite OF what their
doctors say and do. Why? by Will power? No
| By faith I? No.
They live because outside the medical profes
sion and medical pretcnse there are effective
| remedial agencies In nature which, though Gun
recognized" by the code, have supreme power
| over disease, and I'm thousands of cases win tri
umphs where the socalled scientific treatment
utterly fails.
A prominent ex-cabnct officer ID to day on tn,
very edge Of the grave, suffering from an ex
treme disorder of the liver. Ills doctors know
they cannot cure him They simply are making
The agony OF death in many cases Is read b,
yuIsions OF nerve. in spasms of torturc-th
| fixed eve, the chilly breath, the dreadful cough
ing. the bloody swcat--the supreme In nfiictions q
pitiiess disease upon a lpiess body-indicat
the Limitations of professional skill"
| seventenths of the deaths of this countr.
every year are from hepatic and renal disorders
over which physicians have so little power. The.
dying comfortable but they know they canno
cure and yet they viii not permit the use Q
: they are alIopathic or homeopathic. II the ~;
tenn, as Is conInon at this time of the year hi,
tome o and @ns @ s 5 rea a 9d be Sooa
purifying, but he will not tell you, what h
| knows to be true, that the blood II impure b'
cause the liver and kidneysare not perforlnin
| their blood-purifying functions.
| The failure of the physicians In General Grant
1 | case ought to have an eye-opening effect upo
| the pubiic. II ought to see the futiity of trus
. ing entirely In profession whose practice is
largely experimental. The test OF merit IL su
z | cess, and when any agency has won recoi
d ! proved by the testimony of prominent men an
| women in all ranks Of society, IL stands TO reaso
!, | that such IA preparation Is worthy OF untvcrs
confidence Who has not heard of il? Who HI
n not used 1T? Who can gainsay the statemel
@ that II has wrought greater benefit for mankiI
a than anything ever discovered inside the ram
- | of the medical profession And yet many phi
= | siciaus who are bound hand and foot To the
u | code will not allow nor will they prescribe q
~ | use of Warmers safe cure. Nevertheless spi
= of their small minded bigotry, it multiplics
n stances of It's singular merit by thousands eve
- | day rests satisfied with the record Of the me
d reputable physician.
Jf | II H. Il terrible thing to lose our friends,
n pccaly IL we find out d(tericOrds that they mig
r. | have been saved.
- We are glad General Frant is getting well.
:; deserves to live and In living he Will efnphasi
IN the fact that physicians do not have "A mOnopo
IA over disease that " scientific medicine
r. called il not inflllible: that all remedial agt
* cics were not born with doctors and will not {
| with them