The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-28
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
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| 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 day an eminent young physi.
clan, in tho last stages o. consumption, uu.
able longer to talk, called for psn and paper
and indis1inctly wrote this advice 20 his ply
slcians: Make dying comfortable"
This seems to have been the cole purposa
OF General Grants attending physicians.
They were making dying comfortable bat
they were not curing their patient. lie
smszes them by getting BETTER
The utter failure rightly to diagnose and
properly to treat General Grants disorder
was a serious blunder. emphasizing what
has so often been said, that professional
treatment, being purely experimental, is
just IS likely 10 be wrong as right.
Had the General an ulcer on his arm, the
physicians would have treated il scientific
ally, very scientifically. He might have re-
covered, or they might have cut mis- arm or
Some dear old soul Of grandmother, how
ever, might have treated the sore by some
old woman's remedy" aud healed IL but
there would have been no professional sci.
ence' IN such a proceeding, as her remedy
would not be one recognized by the code
The Generals physicians excGss them
selves, we are told, because tbs condition OF
| the throat was hidden from sight There
are thousands OF cases where disease is hid
den from sight, where the symptoms are
very obscure and conflicting. TIE physi-
clans VIII trest everydRy's symptoms bat
| they do not cure. and finally the patient
dies Then they discover they have made a
mistake horrible mistake! The other
day prominent merchant in a neighb1rlng
city was found dead in bed. a post-mortem
investigation revealed the fact that one OF
his other vital organs was entirely decayed,
and yet his physicians had been treating him
for heart diseasel
Some one has blundered.
For weeks the American public have been
waiting the nnwelcOme tidings OF General
Grants death. To day, the General is up
and around and riding out
PeOpla Get we'll often In spite OF what their
doctors cay and do. Why? BY will power?
No BY faith? No.
They live because outside the medical pro-
feesion and medical prstense there are ef-
iective remedial agencies in nature which,
though unrecognizea" by the code have su-
preme poR er over disease, and in thousands
of cares win triumphs where the so called
scientific treatment utterly fails
a prominent ex-Cabinet officer Is to day
on TIE very edge OF the grave suffering frlm
ar extreme disorder Of the liver He doc
tors know they can DOT cure him. They sim
ply are making dying comfortable.
Inc agony OF death ia many cases IS read
by surrounding friends in screams of pain in
cODvulsiOns OF nerve. II SPANS OF torture
the fixed eye the chilly breath, the dread
n a hu 10.
pIeme infections Of pitiless disease upon
helpless bo6y-indlcae The limitations OF
''pr Ofeselonal skill "
Ssven-tenths of the deaths of this country
every year are from hspatic aud renal disor-
deI9, oyer which phgsciaps have 60 little
power. They will give this, that aud the
other thing TO make dying comfortable, bat
they know they can not cure and yet they
Will net permit the use Of remedies ''unau-
thoriZed" by their code, whether they are
allopathic or homeopathic. Ii the system,
as IS common at this time Of the year, has no
tone, and one has tired and depressed teel.
lnes, the doctor Will tell you that 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 kidneys are not
performing their blood Purifying functions.
The failure OF the physicians in General
Grants case ought to have an eye-openiug
effect upon the public. It ought to see the
futility Of trusting entirely in profession
whose practice is so largely experimental.
The test OF merit is success, and when
any agency has won a record proved by
the testimony of prominent men aud
women in all ranks of society, il stands 10
reason that such q preparation Is worthy OF
universal confidence. Who has not heard
OF il Who has not used il? VINO can gain.
say the statement that 10 has wrought great
er benefit for mankind than anything ever
discovered inside the ranks OF the medical
profession? And yet many physicians who
are bound hand and foot TO their code will
not allow nor will they prescribe the use OF
Warmers safe cure. Nevertheless spite OF
their small minded bigotry, it multiplies in.
stances OF its singular merit By thousands
every day, rests satisfied with the record il
has won, and challenges comparison with
the record OF the most reputable physician.
II is terrible thing to lose our friends, es-
pecially II we find out sfterward that they
might have been saved
We are glad General Grant is getting we'll.
he deserves to live, and in living he Will EN-.
phasze the fact that physicians do not have
monopoly over disease; that scientific
medicine" so-oalled, is not infallible that
all remedial agencies were not born with doc
tors and Will not die with them.
Worth Knowing.-Ifyou have cold roast
beef chop IL tine, saagOn with Dpnner and