The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-17
FOUR ACTS PLAYED!
Sad Report About Ex-PresIdent
Arthur.
Will THE FIFTH AMI FINAL ACT BE A
TRAGEDY.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
DIR. Lincoln who was at the funeral"
''ot ex-Secretary Frelinghuyscn, says
"ex- Pre-ident Arthur looked very un-'
well. He Is suffering from Bright 5"
disease. During the past year it has
assumed a very aggravated FORM
That telegram Isact " Of a drama writ
ten by ex-President Arthur's physicians.
In Act |, he was made to appear in Ma
laria,' Of which all the country was told
when he went to Florida.
la Act Ii, he represented a tired man,
worn down, walking the sands at Old
Point Comfort and looking eastward over
the Atlantic toward Europe for a longer
rest.
The curtain roi up for Act HI, upon
the distinguished actor affected with
melancholy from brlght's disease, while
ActIN discovers him with the disease
I'm an aggravated form, suffering inten
seIy, (Which is UNUSUAL and about TO
take a sea voyage"
just such as this is the plot of many
drames 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
one.
They have not the disce-nment for
tracing IN the early, what the latter im-
presentations will be. Not one physician
10 a hundred has the adequate micros-
coplc and chemical appliances for discov-
enng bright 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, pronounce the fatal
lty to have been caused by ordinary all
meuts, whereas these ailments are really
results Of bright disease Of which they
are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, so per sent Of all
the deths except from epidemics and ac-
cidents. result fiom diseased kidneys or
Iivers. If the diving be distinguished and
his friends too intellige n to be easily de
ceived, his physicians perhaps pronounce
the complaint to be pericarditis, py9mia,
septlc;emla, bronchitis, pleuritis, valvu-
lar LESSONS OF the heart, pneumonia, etc.
If the deceased be less noted, malaria"
Is now the fashionable assignment of the
cause Of death.
But all the same, named right or nam
ed wrong, the fearful scourge gathers
them in! While it prevails among per-
sons of sedentary habits, lawyers, cler-
gymen, congressman it also plays great
havoc among farmers, day laborers and
mechanics, though they do not suspect
1t, because their physicians keep it from
them, II indeed they are able to detect it.
1t sweeps thousands of women and
children into untlmely 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. In
dependent research has given an %i1talli-
BILE remedy for this common disorder; but
of course the blgotted physicians will not
use Warmers safe cure, because it is a
private affair and cuts up their practice
by restoring the health of those who have
been inyalids for years.
The new saying of chow common
bright's disease is becoming among
prominent men !" is getting old, and as
the Englishman would say sounds
"stupid'-especially stupid since this
disease is readily detected by the more
learned men and specialists of this dis
ease. But the common rum of phys
icians. not detecting it, give the patient
EPSON salts or other drugs prescribed
by the old code oftreatment under which
their grandfathers and great-grandfath-
ers practIced.
Anon, we hear that the patient is
comfortable" But ere long, may be.
they tap" him and take some water
from him and again the comfortable"
story is told. Torture him to use War
ner's safe cure. With such variations
the doctors play upon the unfortunate
untilshis shroud is made. when we learn
that he died from heart disase. py1emia,
s~epticIomia or some other deceptive
though -'dignified cause"
EX-President Arthur's case is not sin
guiar-itis typical Ofevery such case. He
is suffering intensely. This is lot usual
Generally there is almost no suffering.
lie may recover if will act independents
ly of his physicians. The agency nam
ed has cured thousands of persons even
in the extreme stages-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
virtue Ouside their OWL sphere, but as
each school denies virtue TO all others,
the act on their own judgment and &C
cept things by the record of merit they
make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but
there is abundant hope in prompt and
independent action.