The Evening critic., 1885-04-25
GENERAL oRANr,s CASE.
"sOmeone Has BIundereda''-Can
BE Possible.

BE Possible.
The New York Herald says 'If General
Grant should recover from disease which
should prove not to have been what IL has
been described, then his medical attendants
will be expected TO explain the rea.
sons for one of the most remarkable in
stances Of discrepancy ever recounted in the
history Of medical practice"
The other dgy an eminent young ply
sician in tho last stages of consumption,
unable longer to talk, called for pen and
paper and indistinctly wrote this advice
to bis physicians make dying comfort
able
This seems to have beon tho sole purpose
of General Grants attending physicians.
They were making dying comfortable but
they were not curing their patient. He
amszes them by getting better
The utter failure rightly to diagnose and
properly to treat General Grants disorder
was serious blundcr emphasizing what
has so often been said, that professional
treatment, being purely experimental, is
Just as likely to be wrong as right.
Had the General an ulcer on his arm the
physicians would have treated II scientific
ally, very scientifically. He might have
recovered or they might have cut his arm
off. Some dear old soul of grandmother,
HOhGNbTt ullkub uhNb lItultu bDb bOIB Dy
"sumo old womans remedy" and healed IT,
but there would have been no professional
science In such proceeding, as her rom.
edy weuld not be ono recognized by the
code.
The Generals physicians excuse them
selves, we are told, because the condition
Of the throat was hidden from sight There
are thousands Of cases where disease is hid
den from sight, where the symptoms arc
IL 4
clans will treat everyday's symptoms but
they do net cure, and finally the patient
dies. Then they discover they have made
mistakel A horrible mistake The
other day prominent merchant In a neigh
boring city was found dead in bed. A
post morem examination revealed the fact
that one one of his other vital organs was
entirely decayed, and yet his physicians had
been treating him for heart disease
Some one has blundered.
For weeks the American public have
been waiting theunwelcomo tldings of Gen =
eral Grants death. To-day, the General is
up and around and riding out.
People get well often in spite of what
their doctors say and do. Why? BY will
pOwcr2 No. BY faith2 No.
They live because outside the medical
profession and medical pretense there are
effective remedial agencies in nature which,
though "uDrecognized" by the code, have
supreme power over disease, and in thous-
ands of cases win triumphs where the So
called scientific treatment utterly fails.
A prominent ox-Cabinet officer is to-day
on the very edge of the grave, suffering
from an extreme disorder of the liver. His
doctors know they cannot cure him. They
simply arc making dying comfortable.
The agony of death in many cases is read
by surrounding friends in screams Of pain,
in convulsions of nerve, in spasms. of tor
ture-the fixed eye, the chilly breath, tho
dreadful coughing, the bloody sweat-the
supreme inhictions OF pitiless disease upon
helpless body-indicate the limitations of
professional skill.
Seven-tenths of the deaths of this country
every year arc from hepatic and renal dis
orders, over which physicians have SO lit
tie power. They will give this, that and
the other thing to make dying comfort
able, but they know they cannot cure, aud
yet they will not permit the use of remedies
"unuutborized" by their code, whether
they are allopathic or homeopathic. If the
system, as is common at this time of the
year, has no tone. and one has tired and de-
pressed feelings, the doctor will tell you
the blood needs purifying, but he will not
tell you, what he knows to be true, that the
blood is impure because the liver and kid
neys ere not performing their blood purify
ing functions.
The failure of the physicians in General
Grants case ought to have an eye.opening
effect upon the public. 1t ought to see tho
futility of trusting entirely in profess
sion whose practice is SO largely expert
mental. The test of merit is success and
when any agency has won record proved
by the testimony of prominent men and
women in all ranks of society, 1t stands to
reason that such preparation is worthy of
universal confidence. Who has not heard
of IL? Who has not used it? Who can
gainsay the statement that it has wrought
greater benefit for mankind than anything
ever discovered inside tho ranks of the
medical profession? And yet many physi-
clans who are bound hand and foot to their
code will not allow nor will they prescribe
| the use of Warmers safe cure. Neverthe-
less spite of their small minded bgotry, II
multiplies instances of its singular merit
by thousands every day, rests satisfied with
the record it has won, and challenges COM
parison with the record of the most repu-
table physician.
| 1t is o terrible thing to lose our friends
especially If we find out dftertUard that
they might have been saved.
| We are glad General Grant is getting
well. He deserves to live, and, in living
he will emphasize the fact that physicians
do not have monopoly over disease that
scientific medicine" so called, is not infal
| lible; that all remedial agencies were MOI
born with doctors and will not die with
| them.