Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-19
FOUR ACTS PLAYED!
Sad Report about Ex-President
Arthur.
viii the Fifth and Final Act be Tragedy

VIII the t11tn ana t1nal ASt De u lTdScuy'
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.l :.
" DR.. Lincoln, who was at the funeral
"of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, says
"ex-President Arthur looked very unwell.
8 He is suffering from Bright's disease.
" During the past year il has assumed
Every aggravated form.
That telegram is Act ~. of a drama writ
ten by ex-President Arthur's physicians.
In Act L. he was made to appear III Ma,
laria." 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 LII; upon the
distinguished actor affected with melan-
cholv from brights disease, while Act ".
discovers him with the disease in an ag-
gravated form, suffering intensely (which
is usuall, and about to take sea voyage.
Just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by play-wrights of the medical pro
fession They write the first two or three
acts with no conception of what their
character will develop in the final one.
They have not the discerl ment for trac-
ing in the early what the latter impersona-
tons will be. Not one physician in a hun,
dred has the adequate microscopic and
chemical appliances for disc Jvering brlghts
disease in its early stages, and when many
do finally comprehend that their patients
are dying with it, when death occurs, they
will, to cover up their Ignorance OF it, pro-
nounce the fatality to have been caused by
ordinary ailments, whereas these ailments
are really results of brights disease OF
which they are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, so per cent. of all
deaths exceDt from epidemics and acct
dents, result from diseased kidneys or liv-
ers If the dying be distinguished and his
friends too intelligent to be easily deceived,
his physicians perhaps pronounce the COM
plant to be pericarditis pyiemia, septl-
c;emia, bronchitis, pleuritis, vaivular le-
sions of the heart, pneumonia, etc. Ii the
deceased be less noted, q 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
sedentarv habits-lawyers, clergymen, Con-
gressmen-it also plays great havoc among
farmers, day laborers and mechanics,
though they do not suspect it, because their
physicians keep it from them, il indeed
tLey 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 is
variable, 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 how?
No, nature has not been remiss. indie
pendent research has given an lntalllble
remedy for this common disorder; but of
course the bigoted physicians will not use
Warmers safe cure because it is private
Il tln,,.
ing the health of those who have been in
valids for years.
Theme sayingof how common bright's
disease is becoming among prominent
men r is getting old, and as the English
man would say, sounds stupid '-es
pecially stupid" since the disease is
readily detected by the more learned men
and specialists of this disease. But the
common run of physicians, not detect
ing il, give the patient EPSON salts or other
drugs prescribed by the old code of treat
ment under which their grandfatheTs and
great-grandfathers practiced
Anon, we hear that the patient is " COM
Portable" But ere long, may be, they
tap" him and take some water from him
and again the " comfortable" story is told.
Torture him rather than allow him to use
Warmers safe cure? With such variations
the doctors play upon the unfortunate I'M
until his shroud is made, when we
learn that he died from heart disease,
py;cmia, septic;emia or some other decep-
tive though dignified cause"
Ex-President Arthur's case is not Singh
lar-it is typical of every such case. He
is suffering intensely This is not unu-
sual. Generally there is almost no suffer
ing He may recover, if he will act indie
pendently of his physicians. The agency
named has cured thousands of persons
even in the extreme cases-is to-day the
mainstay of the health of hundreds of
thousands. 1t is an unfortunate fact that
physicians will not admit there is any viz
tue outside their own sphere, but as each
school denies virtue to all others, the peo-
pie act on their own judgment and accept
things by the record of merit they make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but there
is abundant hope in prompt and indepcnd-
emf action