The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-18
FOUR ACTS PLAYEDl
Sad Report About Ex-President Arthur.
VIII the Fifth and Final Act be a Tn Xedy.

Sad Report About Ex-Presidont Arthur.
VIII the Fifth and Final Act be a Tragedy.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
dr. Lincoln. who was at the funeral of ex-
Secretary Frelinghuysen. says ex-Presidept
Arthur looked very unwell. He is suffering
from Bright's disease. During the past year
it has assumed 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"
of which all the country was told when he
went to Florida.
In Act II. he represented a tired man, worn
down, walking the sand at Old Point Comfort
and looking eastward over the Atlantic tor
ward Europe for a longer rest
The curtain rolls up for Act Ill upon the
distinguished actor affected with melancholy
from Bright's disease, while Act ~. discovers
him with the disease Gin an aggravated form,
suffering intensely (which is unusuaD and
about to take sea voyage"
just such as this is the plot ofmany 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 impersonations
will be- Not one physician in a hundred has
the adequate microscopic and chemical arpli-
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, 80 per cent of all deaths
except from epidemics and accidents, result
from diseased kidneys or ivers. If the dying
be distinguished and his friends too intelligent
to be easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis,
pysemia, septicRmia, bronchitis, pleuritis,
valvular LESSONS of the heart, pneumonia, etc.
If the deceased be less noted, malaria" 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 !
While it prevails among persons of sedentary
habits-lawyers, clergymen, congressmen-it
laborers and the mechanics, though they do
not suspect it, because their physicians keep
it from them, if, indeed, they are able to de-
tect it.
1t 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
know how?
pendent research has given an infallible rem
edy for this common disorder; but of course
the bigoted physicians will not use Warmers
safe cure, because it is private affair and
cuts up tnelr practlce by restoring the health
of those who have been invalids for years.
The new saying of chow common Bright's
disease is becoming among prominent men !"
is getting DID," 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 physicians,
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 prescribed.
Anon, we hear that the patient is ''comfort-
able" 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 Warmers
safe curel With such variations the doctors
play upon the unfortunate until his shroud is
made, when we learn that he died from heart
disease pyHmia septicRmia or some other
deceptive, though 'dignifed cause.'
Ex-President Arthurs case is not singular
it is typical of every such case. ''He is
orally there is almost no suffering. he may
recover, if he will act Independently of his
physicians. The agency named has cured
thousands of persons even in the extreme
stages-is to-day the maiDstay of the health
of hundreds of thousands 1t is an unfor-
tunate fact that physicians will not admit
there is any virtue outside their own sphere,
but as each school denies virtue to all others,
the people act on their own Judgment and
accept things by the record of merit they
make.
These facts are cause for alarm, but there
is abundant hope in prompt and independent
action.
The French are very Frank people.