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The New York Herald says "If Genera
Grant should recover from Q disease which
should prove not to have been what II ha
been described, then bis medical attendant
will b expected TO explain the rea
soni for one Of the most remarkable instances
Of discrepancy ever recounted in the history
Of medical practice"
The other dsy an eminent young phys,ciar
In the last stages Of consumption, unable
longer 10 talk, called for pen and paper enc
indistinctly wrote this advice 70 his ply.
sicians: "Make dying comfortable"
This seems to have been the sole purpose
Of General Grants attending physicians
They were making dying comfortable, ba,
they were not curing their patient. He
amazes them by getting betteri
The utter failure rightly to diagnose and
pro, erly to treat General Grants disorder
was serious blunder, emphasizing what has
so often been said, that professional treat.
ment, being purely experimental, 10 just al
likely to be wrong - right.
Had the general an ulcsr on bis arm the
physicians would have treated II scientifically, =,
very scientifically. He might have recovered
or they might have cut bis arm of. Some
dear old soul Of . grandmother, however,
might have treated the sore by some "old
woman's remedy" and healed Il, but there
would have been no professional science" In
such a proceeding, 40 her remedy would not
be one recognized by the code!
The generals physicians excuse themselves,
We are told, because the condition of the
throat was hidden from sight. There are
thousands Of cases where disease is hidden
from sight, where the symptoms are very OBJ.
scure and conflicting. The physicians will
treat everyday's symptoms, but they do not
cure, and finally the patient dies. Then they
discover they have made q mistake! A hor-
rible mistakei The other day prominent
merchant 10 neighboring city was found
dead In bed. A pos'-mortem examination
revealed the fret that one Of bis oaher vital
organs was entirely decayed, and yet bis
physicians had been treating him for heart
diseased
Some one has blundered.
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 we'll often in spite Of what their
d.ctors say and do. why2 BY will power?
No. BY faith? No.
They live because outside the medical pro-
ftssion and medical pretense there arc efFec.
tive remedial agencies in nature which, though
"unrecognised" by the code, have supreme
power over disease, and in thousands of cases
win triumphs where the 80 called scientific
treatment terly tails.
prominent ex-cahinet officer 10 today on
the very edge Of the grave, suffering from an
extreme disorder Of the 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 frierds in screams of pain in
convulsioDs OF nerve, In spasus Of torture
the fl ved eye, the chilly breath, the dreadful
coughing, the bloody sweat-the supreme in
hic,i ms of pi,iless disease upon a helpless
body,--indicate the limitations of professional
skill."
Sever-tenths of the deaths Of this country
every year are from hepatic and renal disor-
ders, over which physicians have 30 little
power. They will give this, that and lbe
other thing to make dying comfortable, but
they know they cannot cure, and yet they
will not permit the use OF remedies "uuau-
thorized" by their code. whether they are al
lopathic or homeopathic. II the system, as
is common at this tune OF the year, has no
tone, and one has tired and depressed feel.
ings, the doctor will tell you that the blood
needs purifying, but be will not tell you,
what be knows 10 he 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-opening
effect upon the public. 1t ought to zee the
futility OF trusting entirely 10 profession
whose practice is 90 largely experimental. /
The test Of merit is success, and when any
agency has won a record proved by the testi-
mony OF prominent men aud women 10 all
ranks Of society, it stands to reason that such
a preparation is worthy of universal conf
dence. Who has not heard of il? Who
has not used it2 Who can gaineay the state
ment that it has wrought greater benefit for
mankind than anything ever discovered iu- |
side the ranks OF the medical professian? And
yet many physicians who are bound hand and |
toOt to their code will not allow nor will they |
prescribe the use Of Warmers safe cure.
Nevertheless, spite Of their small uded big
otry, 1t multiplies instances Of its singular |
merit BY thousands every day, rests satisfied |
with the record II has won, and challenges |
with the record OF the most repu- |
table physician.
pecially II we find out qfterwards 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-
phasize the fact that physicians do not have II
over disease; that scientific med- |
cine" 30 called, Is not infallible; that all |
remedial agencies we're not born with doctors |
and will not die with them.