The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-28
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
Some One Has Blundered" Can It
be Possible

medical attendants Will be eN-
pected TO explain the reason for one Of
the most remarkable instances OF dis
crepancy ever recounted in the history
of medical practice"
The other day an eminent young ply
sician in the last stages of consumption.
unable longer to talk, called for pen and
paper and indistinctly wrote this adj
wee to his physicians; Make dying
comfortable"
This seems to have been the sole pur-
pose Of General Grants attending ply
sloians. They were making dying COM
Portable, but they were not curing their
patient. lie amazes them by getting
| better.
The utter failure rightly to diagnose
mud properly to treat General Grants
disorder was serious blunder. en-
phasizing what has so often been said
that professional treatment, being purely
experimental, Is just rs likely to lie
! wrong rs Tight.
Had the General nm ulcer on his arm
the physicians would have treated 1t
scientifically, very scientifically. lie
might have recovered or they might
have cut his arm OIL. Some dear old
soul Of grandmother, however. might
have treated the sore by some "old
woman's remedy" and healed 1t, nut
there would have been no professional
science In such proceeding, AS her
remedy could not he one recognized by
the code.
The Generals physicians excuse them
selves. We are told, because the oondi-
ton of the throat was hidden from sight.
There are thousands of cases where
disease Is hidden from sight. where the
symptoms are very obscure and con
ilicting. The physicians will treat
every days symptoms. but they 10 not
cure, and finally the patient dies. Then
they discover they have made mis-
take-a horrible mistake. The other
day prominent merchant in II neigh
boring city was found dead in bed. 4
post mortem examination revealed the
fact that one OF his other vital organs
was entirely deCayed, and yet his ply
sicians had been treating him for heart
disease.
Some one has Numbered.
For weeks the American public have
been waiting for the unwelcome tidings
Of General Grants death. To-day the
General IL up and around and riding
out.
People get well often in spite of what
their doctors say and do. Why? Bywill
power? No. by faithy No.
They live because outside the medical
profession and medical pretenses 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 fH.I. l..
day on tho very edge of the grave. sui
iering 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 IL
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 inflio-
tions OF pitiless disease upon helpless
body-indicate the limitations of pro-
fessional skin.
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 'unauihor-
ICED by their code" whether they are
allopathic or homeopathic. If the sys-
TEN, ms Is common at this time of the
year, has no tone, and one has tired and
depressed feelings, the doctor will tell
you the blood needs purifying, but lie
VIII not tell you, what he knows to he
true, that the blood Is impure because
the liver ana kidneys are not perform
Ing their blood-purifying functions.
The failure of the physicians in Gen
eral Grants case ought to have an eve
opening elect upon the public It
ought to see the futility of trusting en-
tirelly in a profess ion whose practice is
so largely experimental. Tie test of
merit is suc' ess and when any agency
has won n record proved by the testi-
mony of prominent men and women in
all ranks of society, 1t stands to reason
that such n preparation IL worthy of
universal confidence. Who has not
heard Of it? Who has not used it? Who
can galnsay the statement that il has
wrought greater 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 al
low nor will they prescribe the use of
warmers safe cure. Nevertheless, spite
OF their small-mnded bigotry, il multi
plies Instances of its singular merit by
thousands every day. rests satisfied
with the record 1t has won, and chal-
lenges comparison with the record of
the most reputable physician. 1t is II
terrible thing to lose our friends, es-
pecially If we find out afterwards that
they might have been saved.
Weare glad general Grant Is getting
well. He deserves to live, and in living
he vii emphasize the fact that physi-
clans do not have monopoly over dis
eases that scientific medicine" so
called, Is not infallible; that all remedial
agencies were not born with doctors and
will not die with them.