New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-05-06
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
Someone Has Blundered!'' Can it be
Possible7

The New York Herald says: ..if
General Grant should recover from a
"disease which should prove not to
shave been what it has been described,
''then his medical attendents
will be expected to explain the rea-
''sons for one of the most remarkable
instances of discrepancy ever recount
led in the history of medical prac-
tstice.''
The other day an eminent young ply
sician in the last stages of consumption,
unable longer to talk, called for pen
and paper and instinctively wrote this
advice to his physicians: 'Make dying
comfortable.
This seems to have been the sole pur-.
pose of General Grants attending ply
sicians. They were making dying com
PORTABLE, but they were not curing their
patient. He amazes them by getting
better! |!
The utter failure rightly TO diagnose
and properly to treat General Grants
disorder was a serious blunder, e1npha-
sizing 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 it
scientifically, very scientifically. He
might have recovered or they might
have cut his arm off. Some dear old
soul of a grandmother, however,
might have treated the sore by some
"old woman's remedy" and healed it,
but there would have been no ''profes-
sional science in such a proceeding,
as her remedy would not be one recog-
nized by the code.
The generals physicians excuse
themselves, we are told, because the
condition of the throat was hidden
from sight, where the symptoms are
very obscure and conflicting. The
physicians will treat everyday's symp-
toms but they do not cure, and finally
the patient dies. Then they discover
they have made mistake! A horrible
mistake! The other day prominent
merchant in a neighboring city was
found dead in bed. A post norton
examination revealed the fact that one
of his other vital organs was entirely
decayed, and yet physicians had been
treating him for heart disease!
OOm0 one HAS Dluuueltu.
: For weeks the American public have
, been waiting the unwelcome tidings of
General 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 power? No. By faith? No.
They live because outside the medical
profession and medical pretense there
are effective remedial agencies in nature
which, though ''unrecognized' by the
code, have supreme power over disease,
and in thousands of cases win triumphs
where the so called scientific treatment
utterly fails.
A prominent ex-cabinet officer is to-
day on the very edge of the grave, suf-
liver. His doctors know they cannot
cure him. They simply are making
dying comfortable.
The agony of death in many cases is
read by surrounding friends in screams
of pain, in commissions of nerve, in
spasms of torture-the fixed eye, the
chilly breath. the dreadful coughing,
the bloody sweat-the supreme infic-
tons of pitiless disease upon :. helpless
body,-indicate the limitations of pro-
fessional skill
Seven-tenths of the deaths of this
country every year are from hepatic
and renal disorders, over which physi-
clans have so little power. They will
give this, that and the other thing to
make dying comfortable, but they know
they cannot cure and yet they will not
permit the use of remedies ''unauthor-
ized'' by their code, whether they are
alleopathic or homeopathic. If the
system, as is common at this time of
the year, has no tone, and one has tired
and depressed feelings, the doctor
will tell you that the blood needs puri-
flying, but he will not tell you, what he
knows to be true, that the blood is i'm
pure 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-opening effect upon the public. 1t
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 testi-
mony of prominent men and women in
all ranks of society, it stands to reason
that such preparation is worthy of
; universal confidence. Who has not
heard of it? Who has not used it? Who
can gainsay the statement that it has
wrought greater benefit for mankind
than anything ever discovered inside
tho IA ia IF fin modioa1 profoac;on .
And yet many physicians VINO 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 multi
plies instances of its singular merit by
thousands every day, rests satisfied
with the record it has won, and chal-
lenges comparison with the record of
, the most reputable physician.
1t is q terrible thing to lose our
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