Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-06-19

So Repors Abos1 EK-PreaI4ens ArGhur.
WIN ahn Fanh and Finnl Act BE WEnNodv.
Rochester Dssnocrat and Chronicle
nDr Lincoln. who was nc The funeral of ex-
Arthur looked very unwell. he Is suffering
from Br1ghts DISEASE During The past year
6 has assumed very aggravated form.
That telegram Is act IN. Of drama writ
kan By OK President Arthur's physicians In
Act I be was made 20 appear IN Malaria, :
d which al the country was told when he
vent 90 Florida
In Act IT. be represented tired man, worn
down. walking The sand at Old Point Comfort
and looking eastward over the Atlantic to-
ward Europe for . longer rest
The curtain rolls mp FOR Act III upon the
distinguished actor affected with melancholy
from Brights disease, while Act " discovers
him with the disease s.in an aggravated form.
suffering intensely (which IS UNUSUAL and
about TO take sea voyage
just such as this Is the plot Of many dramas
BY play-wrights Of the medical profession.
They write che first two or three acts with no
conception Of what their character viii de-
velOp in the final one
They have not the discernment for tracing
Ia the early, what the latter impersonations
viii be. Not one physician IN hundred has
the adequate microscopic AMI chemical arpli-
ances for discovering Brights disease In its
early stages. and when many do finally COM
prehend that their patients are dying with IL,
when death occurs they will to cover up their
ignorance Of Il, pronounce it 60 have been
caused by ordinary ailments, whereas these
ailments are really results of Brightas disease
II which they nre unconscious victims
Beyond any doubt 80 per cent OF all deaths
except from epideiuics and accidents, result
from diseased kidneys or iivers III the diving
he distinguished and bis friends too intelligent
70 be easily deceived his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis,
valvular LESSONS Of the heart, pneumonia, etc
1t tho deceased be less noted, malaria" is
now the fashionable assignment of the cause
1T death
But all the same, named right or named
wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in !!
" bile u prevails among persons of sedentary
habits-lawyers clergymen, congressmen-it
also plays great havoc among farmers day
iaborers and the mechanics, though they do
not suspect IL, because their physicians keep
i from them, II, indeed, they are able to de-
tect it
It sweeps thousands OF women and children
into untimely graves every year The health
gives way gradually, the strength il varia-
he, the appetite tickle. the vigor gets less and
less. This isn't malaria--it is the beginning
Of kidney disease and will end-who does not
know howl
No, nature has not been remiss. indie,
pendent research has given an infallible reln-i
edy for this common disorder; but of course
the bigoted physicians will not use Warmers.
safe cure. because IL is a private affair and.
cuts up their practice by restoring the health
Of those who have been invalids for years.
The new saying of "how common Bright's
disease is becoming among prominent men i"
IS getting old, and as the Englishman would
say, sounds 'sstupid" especially sastupid''
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 1t. give the patient EPSON salts
or other drugs prescribed by the old code Of
treatment under which their grandfathers
and great grandfather prescribed.
Anon, we hear that tho patient is comfort
able" But ere long, maybe, they tap him
md take some water from him and again.
the comfortable story is told Torture
him rather than allow him to use Warmers
safe curel With such variations the doctors
play upon the unfortunate until his shroud is
made, when we learn that he died from heart
disease. pyRmia, septicmmia or some other
deceptive, though slignifled cause
Ex-President Arthur's case Is not singular
lit Is typical of every such case. ''E1e is
suffering intensely" This is not usual. Gem
orally there is almost no suffering. lie may
recover, IL he will act independently Of his
physicians The agency named has cured
thousands Of persons even in the extreme
stages-is to-day the nlainstay of the health
of hundreds of thousands Il Is an unfor-
tunate fact that physicians will not admit
there Is any virtue outside their own sphere,
but as each school denies virtue 20 all others
the people at on their own Judgment and
accept things by the record Of merit they
make.
These facts are cause for alarm, but there
is abundant hope in prompt and independent
action.