Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-06-19
-FOUR ACTS PLAYEpI
Sad Report About Ex-President Arthur
VIII tho Fifth and Final Act Be n
Tragedy.

win tno run anu hinhi Act bo N
Tragedy.
| lRcchestor Democrat and Chroniclo.l
v"Dr. Lincoln, who was ut the funeral Off
president. Arthur looked very unveils
"Heis suffering from Brightis disease.o
"During the past year IL has assumed q"
"yery aggravated FORM"
| That telegram is Act ". of n drama
written by ex-Prosidont Arthur's physi-
clans. In Act /. he was made to appear In
"Malnria,v OF which all the country was
told when he went to Florida.
In Act III. ho represented a tired man,
worn down, walking tho sands at Old
Point Comfort and looking eastward over
the Atlantic toward Europe for q longer
rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III. upon
the distinguished actor Infected with mel
ancholy from bright's disease, while Act
". discovers him with the disease sin an
! aggravated form, suffering intensely,
(Which is Unusually and about to take q sea
voyage"
! Just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by play wrights of the medical
| profession. They write the first two or
| three acts with no conception of what their
character will develop In the final ono.
They have not the discernment for trac-
ing in the early what the latter imperson-
hundred has tho adequate microscopic and
chemical appliances for discovering
briEht's disease in its early stages, and
| when many do finally comprehend that
their patients are dying with 1t, when
death occurs, they will, to cover up their
| have been caused by ordinary ailments,
| whereas these ailments are really results
| of bright's disease of which they are un-
conscious victims.
deaths except from epidemics and acci-
| dents, result from diseased kidneys or
| livers. If the dying be distinguished and
his friends too intelligent to be easily de-
ceived, his physicians perhaps pronounce
the complaint to be pericarditis, py@mia,
septicemia, bronchitis, pleuritis, valvular
LESSONS Of the heart, pneumonia, etc. IL
the deceased be less noted, "malaria" Is
now the fashionable assignment of the
cause of death.
wrong, this fearful scosrge gathers them
| in! While it prevails among persons of
/ sedentary habits,-lawyers, clergymen,
congressmen,-it also plays great havoc
among farmers, day laborers and mechan-
les, though they do not suspect it, because
their physicians keep It from them, II in
| deed they are able to detect it,
| 1t sweeps thousands of women and chill
dren into untimely graves every year. The
health gives way gradually, the strength
gets less and less. This isn't malaria-it
Is the beginning of kidney disease and will
| end-who does not know how2
No, nature has not been remiss. Inde-
pendent research has given an infallible
remedy for this common disorder; but OF
course the bigoted physician will not use
Warmers safe cure, because 1t Is private
affair and cuts up their practice by restor-
ing the health of those who have been in
valids for years.
disease is becoming among prominent
men!" is getting old, and as the English
man would say, sounds .stupid"-espec-
tally stupid" since this disease is readily
detected by the more learned men and spe-
cialists of this disease. But the common
the patient EPSON salts or other drugs pre-
scribed by the old code of treatment under
which their grandfathers and great-grand-
fathers practicedl
Anon, we hear that the patient Is "com-
Portable" But ere long, maybe, they tap
him and take some water from him and
again the ''comforta BILE" story is told. Tor
ture him rather than allow him to use
Warmers safe curel With such variations
the doctors play upon the unfortunate
that he died from heart disease, py@mia,
septicemia or some other deceptive though
"dignifled cause"
Ex-President Arthur's case is not singu-
lar-it is typical of every such case. "He
Generally there is almost no suffering.
He may recover, if he will act independ-
emily 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 thou
sands. 1t is an unfortunate fact that ply
sicians will not admit there is any vir-
tue outside of their own sphere, but as
each school denies virtue to all others, the
people act on their own Judgment and ac-
cept things by the record of merit they
make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but there
is abundant hope in prompt and independ-
ent action.