Connecticut western news., 1885-06-17
FOUR ACTS PLAYEDl
Sad Report About Ex-Presideut Arthur. VIII the Fifth and Final Act be R Tra gedy
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Sad Report About Ex-President Arthur. VIII the Fifth and Final Act be n Ira gedy.
 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
 "Dr. Lincoln, who was at the funeral of ex- Secretary Frelinghuysen, says ex- President Arthur looked very unwelL He is suffering from Bright's disease During the past year it has assumed 6 very aggravated form"
 That telegram is act ". of a drama writ ten by ex President Arthur's physicians. In Act l. he was made to appear in 'Malaria,n of which all the country was told when he went to Florida
 In Act IL he repro sented tired man, worn down, walking the sanl at Old Point Comfort and looking eastward over the Atlantic to- ward Europe for a longer rest
 The curtain rolls up for Act III. upon the distinguished actor affected with melancholy from Bright's disease, while Act ". discovers him with the disease tsin an aggravated form, suffering intensely (which is unusual and about to take sea voyage
 Just such as this is the plot of many dramas by play-wrights of the medical profession They write the first two or three acts with no conception of what their character will de- velop in the final one.
 They have not the discernment for tracing in the early, what the latter impeTsonations will be. Not one physician in a hundred has the adequate microscopic and chemical appli- ances for discovering Bright's disease in its early stages, and when many do finally com prehend that their patients are dying with it, when death occurs they will, to cover up their ignorance of it, pronounce it to have been caused by ordinary ailments, whereas these ailments are really results of Bright's disease of which they are unconscious victims. Beyond any doubt, 50 per cent of all deaths except from epidemics and accidents, result from diseased kidneys or hvers. If the dying be distinguished and his friends too intelligent 10 be easily deceived, his physicians perhaps 1 pronounce the complaint to be pericarditfs ] pygRmia, septicRmia, bronchitis, pleuritis | yalvular lesions of the heart, pneumonia, etc i If the deceased be less noted, fmalarian is now the fashionable assignment of the cause | of death.
 But all the same, named right or named | wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in 1 | While it prevails among persons of sedentary | habits-lawyers, clergymen, congressmen-it ! laborers and the mechanics, though they do i not suspect it, because their physicians keep it from them, if, indeed, they are able to de- | tect it.
 It sweeps thousands of women and children | into untimely graves every year. The health ! gives way gradually, the strength is varia. ble, the appetite tickle, the vigor gets less and less. This isn't malaria-it is the beginning of kidney disease and will end-who does not l know howl
 No, nature has not been remiss. Inde- pendent research has given an infallible rem edy for this common disorder; but of course l the bigoted physicians will not use Warmers safe cure, because it is q private affair and | cuts up their practice by restoring the health | of thosa who have been invalids for years.
 The new saying of 'how common Bright'i disease is becoming among prominent men r is getting old,n and as the Englishman would say, sounds 'stupidn-especially "stupidr ] since this disease is readily detected by the l more learned men and specialists of this dis ease. But the Common rum of physicians not detecting 1t, give the patient Epson salt | or other drugs prescribed by the old code oi i treatment under which their grandfather and great at-grandfathers prescribed.
 Anon, we hear that the patient is ''comfort l ablen But ere long, maybe, they "tapn hin and take some water from him and agair ! the "comfortablen story is told Torturv him rather than allow him to use Warneri safe curel With such variations the doctor | play upon the unfortunate until bis shroud is made, when we learn that he died from hear
 disease, pyRmia, septicaemia or some othel deceptive, though 'fiigni6ed causen | Ex-President Arthur's case is not singular it is typical of every such case. "He | suffering intensely This is not usual. Gen
 orally there is almost no suffering lie may recover, if he will act independently of hf
 physicians The agency named has eureS
 thousands of persons even in the extrem,
 stages-is to-day the mninstay of the health
 of hundreds of thousands 1t is an unfor
 tunate fact that physicians will not admi
 there is any virtue outside their own sphere
 but as each school denies virtue to all others
 the people act on their own judgment an,
 accept things by the record of merit the,
 make.
 These facts are cause for alarm, but ther
 is abundant hope in prompt and independen
 action.