The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-06-12
FOUR ACTS PLAYED!
Sad Report About Ex-Presi-
dent Arthur
WILL THE FIFTH AND FINAL
ACT BE A TRAGEDY.

Rochester Damoraf ana chronfcle.
''Dr. Lincoln who was at the funer-"
"al of ex-Secretary Frelinghuyscn,'
"says ex-President Arthur looked very"
"unwell. lie is suffering from Brigbt's"
"disease. During the past year 1t"
"has assumed very aggravated '
"form."
That telegram is act w, of the dra-
ma written by ex.President Arthur's
physicians. In Act /. he was made to
appear in "Malaria," of which all the
country was told when he went to
Florida.
In Act II. he represented tired man,
worn down, walking the sands at Old
Point Comfort and looking eastward
over the Atlantic toward Europe for
longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III.
upon the distinguished actor affected
with melancholy from brights disease,
while Act ~ discovers him with the
disease sin an aggravated form, suf-
fering intensely, (Which is Unusually 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 develop in the
final one.
They have not the discernment for
tracing in the early, what the latter
impersonations will be. Not one ply.
sician in hundred has the adequate
microscopic and chemical appliances
for discovering bright's disease in its
early stages, and when many do finally
comprehend that their patients are dy-
ing with it, when death occurs, they
will, 10 cover up their ignorance Of it,
pronounce the fatality to have been
caused by ordinary ailments, whereas
these ailments are really results of
bright's disease of which they are un-
conscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, 80 per cent. of
all deaths except from epidemics and
accidents, result from diseased kidneys
or livers. If the dying be distinguish
ed and his friends too intelligent to be
easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be pericar-
ditis, py@mia, septio@mia, bronchitis,
pleuritis, valyular LESSONS of the heart,
pneumonia, etc. If the deceased be
less noted, "malaria" is now the fash
ionable assignment of the cause of
death.
But all the same, named right or
named wrong, this fearful scourge
gathers them in While it prevails
among persons of sedentary habits
lawyers, clergymen, congressmen,-it
also plays great havoc among farmers,
day laborers and mechanics, though
they do not suspect it, because their
physicians keep it from them, if indeed
they are able TO detect it.
It sweeps thousands of women and
children into untimely graves every
year. The health gives way gradually,
the strength is variable, 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 know howl
No, nature has not beer remiss. In
dependent research has given an in
fallible remedy. for this common disor-
der but of course the bigoted physi-
clans will not use Warmers safe cure,
because it is private affair and cuts
up their practice by restoring the
health of those who have been invalids
for years.
The new saying of show common
brights disease is becoming among
prominent men y is getting old, and
as the Englishman would say, sounds
Stupid" Especially stupid since this
disease is readily detected by the more
learned men and specialists of this dis
ease. But the common run" of physi-
clans. not detecting it, give the patient
EPSON salts or other drugs prescribed
by the old code of treatment under
which their grandfathers and great
grandfathers practiced I!
Anon, we hear that the patient is
comfortable" But ere long, maybe,
they "tap" him and take some water
from him and again the comfortable
story is told. Torture him rather than
allow him to use Wainer's safe cure
With such variations the doctors play
upon the unfortunate until his shroud
is made, when we learn that he died
from heart disease, pyemia, septicemia
or some other deceptive though "dig
nified cause
Ex-President Arthur's case is moi
singular--it is typical Of every sucf
case. "He is suffering intensely" Thii
is not usual. Generally there is al
most no suffering. He may recover
if he will act independently Of his ply
sicians. The agency named has caret
thou'ands of persons even in the ex
treme stages--is to day the mainsta,
of the health of hundreds of thousands
Ii is an unfortunate fact that physi
clans will not admit any virtue outsid
their own sphere, but as each schoo
denies virtue to all others, the peopl
act on their own judgment and accep
things by the record of merit the
make.
The facts are cause for alarm, bu
there is abundant hope in prompt an
Independent action.
The only time that nature gets th