Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-04-29
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Ths New York Herald says: "If
u General Grant should recover from .
|" disease which should prove not 70 have
- been what IL has been described, then
" his medical attendants will bo
- expected TO explain the reasons for one
" Of the most remarkable instances Of
" discrepancy ever recounted in the
" history Of medical practice"
The other day An eminent young ply
sioiAp In the last stages Of consumption,
unable longer to tall, called for pen and
papor, and tndistinctly wrote this nd
vice to his physicians make dying
comfortable"
This seems 70 have been the sole pur.
siciAus. They were making dying
comfortable, but they were not curing
their patient. He amazes them by get
ting better
The utter failure rightly to diagnose
and properly TO treat General Grants
disorder was q serious blupder, empha-
sizing what has 80 often been said, that
professional treatment, being purely
experimental, 10 just a. likely 10 be
wrong ~ right.
Had tho general an ulcer on his arm
the physicians would have treated it
scientifically, very scientifically. He
might have recovered or they might
have cut his arm of. Some dear old
soul OF . grandmother, however, might
have treated the sore by some cold
womAn's remedy" and healed It, but
thsro would have been no professional
science " In such . proceeding, IS her
remedy would not be recognized by the
codel
Ths generals physicians excuse them
selves, We are told, because the condi-
ton Of the throat was hidden from
sight There are thousands Of cases
where diseases arc hidden from sight,
whore the symptoms are very obscure
and conflicting. The physicians will
treat every days symptoms, but they
do not cure, and finally the patient
dies. Then they discover they have
made . mistake A horrible mistake I!
Tho other day prominent merchant in
. neighboring city was found dead in
bed. A post-mOrtem examination re-
veAled the fact that one OF his other vital
organs WAS entirely deoay red and yet his
physicians had been treating him for
mart Olo0000I
Some one has blundered
For weeks the American public have
bean waiting the unwelcome tidings OF
General Grants death. To-day, the
general 10 up and around and riding
out.
People get we'll often in spite of what
will power? No. By faith? No.
ThAu 1.-Two hooa ont aiNo Tho oil
cal profession and medical preteu q
there are effective remedial agencies in
nature which, though unrecognizsd
by the code, have supreme power or OF
disease, and In thousands of cases wins
triumphs where the so.called scientific
treatment utterly fails.
A prominent ex cabinet fficer Is To-
day ON the very edge Of the grave, suffer-
ing 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 is
read by surrounding friends with
screams Of pain in commissions Of nerve,
in spaams Of torture-the fxed eye, the
chilly breath, the dreadful coughing,
tho bloody sweat-.be supreme iptiic
ton Of pitiless disease upon helpless
body.-indicate the limitations Of pro
fessional skill.
Seven.tenths of the deaths of tbi.
country every year are from hepatit
and renal disorders, over which physi
clans have 30 little power. They vii
give this, that and the other thing L
make dying comfortable, but they know
they cannot cure and yet they will no
permit the use CT remedies "unauthor
ized" by their code, whether they arr
allopathic or homeopathic. II the sys
tenn, as Is common at this time Of tn,
year, has no tone. and one has tired ant
depressed feelings, the doctor will tel
you that the blood needs purifying, bu
he will not tell you, what he knows L
be true, that the blood is impure be
cause the liver and kidneys are not per
forming their blocd.purifying functions
The failure ofthe physicians in Gene
raj Grants case ought TO have an eye
opening effect upon the public.
J ought TO see the futili'y of trusting en-
tirely in profession whose practice /
so largely experimental. The test O
merit is success and when any agenc'
has won a record proved by the testi
mony Of prominent men and women II
all ranks Of society, it stands 20 reason
! that such q preparation is worthy 0
universal confidence. Who has no
heard of 1t? Who has not used it
Who can gainsay the statement that
has wrought greater benefit for man
kind than anything ever discovered in
side the ranks Of the medical profes
sion ? And yet many physicians VIII
are bound hand and foot TO their cod
will not allow nor will they prescrib
| the use of Warmers safe cure. Never
theless, spite of their small minde'
bigotry, IL multiplies instances Of 1t
singular merit by thousands every day
rests satisfied with the record it ha
, wen, and challenges comparison wit
the record of the most reputable phys
clan.
1t Is a terrible thing to lose our friends
especially II we fnd out afterward
that they might have been saved.
We are glad General Grant is gettiu
, well. He deserves to live,an in livip
! he will emphasize tho fact that phys
clans do not have monopoly over di.
ease that scientific medicine" 81
. called, is not infallible ; that all RENE
dial agencies were not born with doc
tors and will not die with them.