New Ulm weekly review., 1885-07-01
FOUR ACTS PLAYED!
Sad Report About Ex-President
Arthur.
Will the Fifth and Final Act be a
Tragedy.

'Ur. Lincoln VINO was at the funcral''
s'of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, says''
''ex-President Arthur looked verv un-''
''well. He is suffering from Bright's''
''disease.. During the past year it has,
assumed very aggravated form.'
That telegram is act ". of drama
written by ex-President Arthur's ply
sicians. In Act /. he was made to ap-
pear 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 east
ward over the Atlantic toward Europe
for longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III. upon
the distinguished actor affected with
melancholy from bright's disease, while
Act Nv discovers him with the disease
''in an aggravated form, suffering in
tensely, (Which is unusually and about
to take a sea voyage
just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by play-wright's 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 discernment for
! tracing in the early, what the latter i'm
presentations will be. Not one physi-
clan in hundred has the adequate
microscopic and chemical appliances
for discovering brights diseases III its
early stages, and when many do finally
comprehend that their patients are dy-
ing 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 ac-
cidents, result from diseased kidneys
or livers. If the dying be distinguished
and his friends too Intelligent to be
easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be pericar-
ditis, py@mia, septlcamia, bronchitis,
pleurltis, valvular 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
named wrong, the fearful scourge
gathers them him in! While it prevails
among persons of sedentary habits -
lawyers, clergymen, congressman, it
also plays great havoc among farmers,
day laborers and mechanics, though
they do not suspect it, because their
physicians keep it from them, if indeed
they are able to detect it
1t sweeps thousands Of women and
children 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. In
dependent research. has given an in.
fallible remedy for this common dis
order; but of course the bigoted physi-
clans 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 invalids for
years.
The new saying of show 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 disease. But the
common rum of physicians. not de-
| rrivy fhav
Or other drugs prescribed by the old
code of treatment under which their
grandfathers and great-grandfathers
practiced!
Anon, we hear that the patient is
comfortable. But ere long, maybe,
they tap him and take sonae 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 until his shrowd
is made, when we learn that he died
from heart disease, py8mia, septi.
camia or some other deceptive though
t'dignified cause.''
Ex-President Arthur's case is not sin.
gular-it is typical of every such case.
HE is suffering intensely" This i:
not usual. Generally there is almos,
no suffering. He may recover, if he
will act independently Of his physicians
The agency named has cured thousand.
of persons even in the extreme stage,
lis to-day the mainstay of the health
of hundreds Of thousands. 1t is An un
fortunate fact that physicians will no
admit there is any virtue outside thei
own sphere, but as each school denie
virtue to all others, the people act OF
judgment and accept things by recort
of merit they make.
The facts are cause for alarm, bu
: there is abundant hope in prompt an,
independent action.
The growth of some of the southern
states is illustrated by the statemen
concerning Chattanooga that it has in
, creased since the war ..from a clum
= of whitewashed warehouses and shan