The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-05-07
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
SOMEONE HAS BLUNDERED CAN 1T BE
POSSIBLE?

SOMEONE HAS BLUNDERED!'-CANI IT BE
PossIBLEl
The New York Herald says: ''If
General Grant should recover from
''disease which should prove not TO have
''been what it has been described, then
''hl5 medical at endants = will be ex
''pected to ''explain the reasons for one
''of the most remarkable instances of
discrepancy ever recounted in the his
''tory of medical practice.
The other day an eminent young ply
sician in the last stages of consumption,
unable longer to talk, called for pen and
paper and indistinctly wrote this advice
to his physicians: "Make dying com
Portable" This seems to have been the
sole purpose Of General Grants attending
physicians. They were making dying
comfortable, but they were not curing
their patient. He amazes them by get
ting bettsr
The utter failure rightly to diagnose
a I'D properly to treat General Grants
disorder was serious blunder, emphasiz,
ing what has so often been said, that
professional treatment, being purely
experimental, is just as likely to be
wrong as right.
Had the general an ulcer on his arm
the physicians would have treated it
scientifically, very scientifically. He
might have recovered or they might have
cut his arm off. Some dear old soul of
grandmother, however, might have treat
ed the sore by some "old woman's
remedy" and healed 1t, but there would
have been no professional science" in
such a proceeding, as her remedy would
not be recognized by the code
The generals physicians excuse them
selves, we are told, because the condition
of the throat was hidden from sight.
There are thousands of cases where
disease is hidden from sight, where the
symptoms are very obscure and conflict
ing. The physicians will treat everyday's
finally the patient dies. Then they dis
cover they have made mistake A
horrible mistake The other day n
prominent merchant in 3 neighboring city
was found dead in bed A post mortem
examination revealed the fact that one of
his other vital organs was entirely decay
ed, and yet bis physicians had been
treating him for heart disease
Some one has biundared.
For weeks the American public have
been waiting the unwelcome tidings OF
General Grants death. To-day, the
general is up and around and riding out.
People get we'll often in spite of what
their doctors say and do. Why? By
will power? No. BY faith No.
They live because outside the medical
profession aud medical pretense there are
effective remedial agencies III nature
which, though ''unrecogniz9d' by the
code, have supreme power over disease.
and in Thousands of cases win triumphs
where the SO called scientific treatment
utterly fails.
A prominent ex- cabinet officer is to day
on the very edge of the grave, suffering
from an extreme disorder of the liver.
His doctors know they cannot cure him.
They simply are making dying comfort
able.
The agony of death in many cases Is
read by surrounding friends IN screams
of pain, il commissions Of nerve, in spasms
OF torture-the fixed eye, the chilly
breath, the dreadful coughing, the bloody
sweat-the supreme inHctlons of pitless
disease upon a helpless body,-lndlcate
the limitations of professional skill"
Seven tenths of the deaths of this
country every year are from hepatic and
renal disorders, over which physicians
have so little power They will give this,
that and other things to make dying
comfortable, but they know they cannot
cure and yet they will not permit the use
of remedies s'unauthorized' by their
code, whether they are allopathic or
homeopathic. If the system, as IS COM
| mon at this time of the year, has no tone,
and one has tired and'depressed feelings,
the doctor will tell you that the blood
| needs purifying, but he will not tell you,
what he knows to be true, that the blood
| is impure because the liver and kidneys
are not performing their blood purifying
functions.
The failure of the physicians in Gen.
| Grants case ought to have an oye-open-
| ing effect upon ths public. 1t ought to
see the futility of trusting entirely in q
profession whose practice is so largely
experimental. The test of merit is sue
cess and when any agency has won a
| record proved by the testimony OF prom
inent men and women III all ranks of
society, it stands to reason that such q
preparation is worthy of universal conf
| dence Who has not heard of it? Who
| has not used 1t2 Who can gainsay the
statement that it has wrought greater
benefit for mankind than anything ever
| discovered inside the ranks OF the nledl-
cal profession? Aud yet many physl-
clans who are bound hand and foot TO
| their code will not allow nor will they
| prescribe the use of Warmers safe cnre.
| Nevertheless, spite of their small mind
ed bigotry, it multiplies instances of its
| singular merit by thousands every day,
rests satisfied with the record it has won,
| and challenges comparison with the
| record of the most reputable physician.
It is a terrible thing to lose our friends
especially if we find out afterwards that
| they might have been saved.
We are glad General Grant is getting
WELL He deserves TO live, and in living
he will emphasize the fact that physi
clans do not have monopoly over dis
ease; that scientific medicine SO call
ed, is not infallibe; that all remedial
| agencies were not born with doctors and
will rot die with them.
|
California redwood was introduced
| in England last year, the imports being
| 81. 900 cubic feet. 1t is very suitable