The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-06-19

Ne,o FORK correspondevw American R'a'di Home
Chap /. alas Malaria;" goes "a
Florida. .e. -.r
Chap. II. "Ovcrworked;" goes to
Europe.
Chap..III. "Has Rheumatism, goes
TO Ems. VIlIg
Chap. Nv. alas row with his Doc
tor .....s
The above chapters, Mr.. Edito, 1 end
in book recently published by an
anonymous author have read a
deal of sarcasms in my day but never
read anything equal to the sarcasm
herein contained. / suspect the exper.
ie1ce portrayed is personal one; in
short, the author intimates as much on
page 81. Let me give you a synop.
sis
siMalaria" as it states, is the cloak
with which superficial physicians GOV.
er multitude of Ill feelings which
they do not understand, and do not
much care to investigate. 1t is also q
cover for such diseases as they can moi
cure. When they advise their patient
to travel or that he has overworked
and needs rest and is probably suffer
ing from malaria, it is confession oi
ignorance or of inability. The patient
goes abroad. The change is tonic
and for time he feels better. Comes
home. Fickle appetite, frequent head
aches, severe colds, cramps, sleepless
ness, irritability, tired feelings, and
general unfituess for business are sue
ceeded in due time by alarming at.
tacks of rheumatism which fits about
his body regardless of all human feel.
ings.
1t is muscular,--in his back. Artic
ular,--in his joints. Infammatory,
my how he fears it will fly to his
heart Now off he goes to the springs.
The doctor sends him there, of course,
to get well; at the same time he does
not really want him to die On his
hands
That would hurt his business J.!
Better for few days. Returns. At
ter while neuralgia transfxes him
He bloats. cannot breathe; has pneu-
monia; cannot walk; cannot sleep on
his left side; is fretful; very nervous
and irritable; is pale and fabby; has
frequent chills and fevers; everything
about him seems to go wrong; becomes
suspicious; musters up strength and
demands to know what is killing him
"Great heaven !" he cries, "why
have you kept me so long in ignor.
ance?'
"Because,' said the doctor, 81 read
your fate five years ago. thought
best 10 keep you comfortable and ig'
norant of the facts .aamD
He dismisses his doctor, but too late!
His fortune has all gone to fees.
But him, what becomes of him
The other day a well known Wall
Street banker said to me "it is really
astonishing how general brights dis.
ease is becoming. Two of my person.
al friends are now dying of it. But il
is not incurable l am certain, for my
nephew was recently cured when his
physicians said recovery was impossi
BILE. The case seems to me to be o
wonderful one. This gentleman for
merly represented his government in Q
foreign country. He kEows, appreci
ates and declares the value of tha,
preparation, because his nephew, who
Is q son of Danish Vice-Consu
Schmidt, was pronounced incurablt
when the remedy, Warmers safe cure
was begun. Eyes said his father, 81
was very skeptical but since taking
that remedy the boy is we'll" tra
regret to note that ex President Ar
thur is SAID to be victim of this terrible
disease. He ought to live but the prob
abilities are that since authorized rem
edies can not cure him, his physicians
will not advise him to save his life, a.
80 many thousands have done, by the
use of Warmers Safe cure which Gen
Christensen, at Drexel, Morgan 4
Co.'S, told me he regarded "as won
derful remedy"
Well. I suspect the hero of the book
cured himself by the same means. The
internal evidence points very strongly
to this conclusion.
1 cannot close my notice of this booh
better than by quoting his advice te
his readers :
"If, my friend, you have such an ex
perience as have portrayed, do mo-
put your trust in physicians to the ex
clusion of other remedial agencies
They have no monopoly over disease
and l personally know that many o
them are 80 very conscientious tha
they would far prefer their patient
should 60 to Heaven direct from thei
powerless hands than that they shoul'
be saved to earth by the use of an!
unauthorized means .,,g
And that the authors condemnation
is too true, how many thousands dup
ed, and yet rescued, as he was, Cal
persOnally testify