Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-11
DROPPED DEAD"

The Fate that Overcame "Little Mac
and Five Other Governors.
Apropos Of the sudden death OF General
George b Mcclellan, We note that the
New York Sun points out the singular fact
that Governor Dewitt Clinton, Governor
Silas Wright, Governor William L. Marcy,
Governor and Chief Justice Sanford Z
Church, and Governor r. E Fenton, all Of
New York State, dropped dead Of heart
disease, and under quite ideatical eircum
Stances-each of them dying lohile read
ing letter, ercept Marcy, who was Pc
rusing Cowper's poems!
Hold your hand against the ribs nyour
left side, front the regular, steady beat
ing of the great force pump" of the sys-
TEN, run by an unknown and mysterious
engineer, is awful in its impressivness
Few persons Ike to count their own
pulse beats, and fewer persons still enjoy
marking the "thub- thub" Of their own
heart.
What if 1t should skip a beat"
As matter of fact the heart is the least
susceptible to primary diseases of any Of
our vital organs lis, however very much
injured by certain long continued conges-
tons of the vital organs, like the kidneys
liver and stomach. Moreover, blood filled
with uric acid produces q rheumatic ten
dencY, and is very injurious to healthful
heart action,-it often proves fatal, and, OF
course, the uric acid comes from impaired
kidney action.
Roberts, the great English authority,
says that heart disease is chiefly secondary
to some more fatal mslady in the blood or
other vital organs. That is, it is not the
original source of the fatal malsdy.
The work of the heart is to force blood
into every part Of the system. 1.-THE or.
CANS are sound it Is an easy task. If they
are at all diseased it is very, very hard
task. Tske as an illustration: The kid.
neys are very subject to congestion ard yet,
being deficient in the nerves of sensation.
this .congested condition is not indicated
by pain 1t may exist for years, unknown
even to physicians, and if it does not result
in complete destruction of the kidneys, the
extra work which is forced upon the heart
weskens it every year, and-s "mysteri-
ous" sudden death claims another victim
This is the true history of heart dis
ease"-so called, which in reality is chiegy
a secondary effect Of Bright's disease Of the
kidneys, aud indicates the universal need
of that renowned specific Warmers safe
cure.
F. Lsrrabee, Esq, Of Boston, who was
by it SO wonderfully cured Of B;ights dis
ease, in 1879, says that with its disappear
ance went the distressing heart disorder,
which he then discovered was only second
airy to the renal trouble
There is a general impression that the
medical profession is not at f4ultif it frank
ly admits that heart disease is the cause Of
death. In other words, cure OF heart
disease is not expected of them
There may be no help for a broken
down, worn out, appopectic heart, but
there is help for the kidney disorder which
in most cases is responsible for the heart
trouble, and if its use put money and fame
into the treasury OF the profession instead
of into the hands of an independent inves
tigator, every graduated doctor in the WORLD
would exclaim Of it, as one" nobler and less
preiudiced than his fellows, once exclaim-
ed: 1T is a God send to humanity"
What, therefore, must be the public es.
innate of that bigotry and want of frank
ness which forbids in such cases (becsuse
forsoolh it is proprietary article), the use
of the one effective remedial agency of the
age. >,
Heart disease" indeed Why not call
such things BY their right names?
Why not2
Dead without a moments warning"
This likewise ia an untru,b. Warnings
are given by the thousand. Physicians
are no, surprised They expected it,
they know what The end will be, but the
victim ?-'oh no. he mustn't be told, you
know, it would only frighten him, Tor there
is nc help, you know, for it!'
The fate that attended Little Mac" and
the five governors is rot royal and exclu-
sive one-it threatens every one who fails
to heed the warnings Of nature SIS set forth
above.