The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-09-05
FOUR ACTS PLAYEDI
Sod Report About Ex-President Arthur
VIII the Fffth and Final Act BE {
Tr8gody.

Sod Report About Ex-President Arthur
VIII the Fffth and Final Act BE
Tragedy.
Rochester DemocrAs and Chronicie.l
'Dr. Lincoln, who was at the funeral Off
"ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, says ex-"
president Arthur looked very unwell.n
"He is suffering from Bright's disease"
"During the past year it has assumed q"
Every aggravated form"
That telegram Is Act ~. of q drama
written by ex-President Arthur's physi-
clans. In Act !. he was made to appear in
"Malaria, ;" of which all the country was
told when he went to 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 up for Act III. upon
the distinguished actor affected with mel
ancholy from bright's disease, while Act
w. discovers him with the disease sin an
aggravated form, suffering intensely,
(which is Unusually and about to take sea
voyage"
Just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by play-wrights of the medical
three acts with no conception of what their
character will develop in the final one.
They have not the discernment for trac-
ing in the early what the latter imperson-
ations will be. Not one physician in
hundred has the adequate microscopic and
chemical appliances for discovering
| 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 un-
| conscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, 80 per cent. of all
| 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-
sceived, his ply sicians perhaps pronounce
septic1mia, 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.
But all the same, named right or named
| wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them
inl While it prevails among persons OF
sedeutary 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, If in
deed they are able to detect it.
1t sweeps thousands of women and chill
health gives way gradually, the strength
is variable, the appetite tickle, the v1gol
gets less and less. This isn't malaria
is the beginning of kidney disease and vii
end-who does not know howy
l. No, nature has not been remfss. lnde
pendent research has given an infallibl'
remedy for this common disorder; but o
course the bigoted ply stefan will not us
Warmers safe cure, because it is privat
affair and cuts up their practice by restor
ing the health of those who have been in
valids for years.
The new SAYING Of show common bright
disease is becoming among prominen
men |" is getting old, and as the English
man would say, sounds ''stupid''-espec
tally stupid" since this disease is readil,
detected by the more learned men and spe
cialists of this disease. But the common
run of physicians, not detecting it, Civ
the patient EPSON salts or other drugs pre-
| scribed by the old code of treatment unde
which their grandfsthers and great-grand
fathers practiced!
Anon, we hear that the patient Is "com
Portable" But ere long, maybe, they tai
again the sscomfortab BILE" story is told. Tor
II ure him rather than allow him to us
Warmers safe cure! With such variation
the doctors play upon the unfortunat
: until his shroud is made, when we lear
, that he died from heart disease, py@mia
| septicRmia or some other deceptive thOugl
"dignified cause"
Ex-President Arthur's case is not singu
lar-it is typical of every such case. III
, is suffering Intensely" This is not usual
Generally there is almost no suffering
He may recover, if he will act independ
emily of his physicians. The agenc,
| named has cured thousands of persons evel
in the extreme stages-is to-day the main
] stay of the health of hundreds OF thou
sands. It is an unfortunate fact that ply
sicians will not admit there is any vir
tue outside Of their own sphere, but a
each school denies virtue to all others, tn
people act on their own Judgment and &C
cept things by the record of merit the,
make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but ther
is abundant hope in prompt and independ