Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-27
" DROPPED DEAD"
The Fate That Overcame "Little Mac" and
Five Other Governors.

Ane 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, Gov.
ernor Silas Wright, Governor William L.
Marcy, Governor and Chief Justice San.
ford E. Church, and Governor r. E. Fen.
ton, all Of New York State, dropped dead
OF heart disease, and undey' quite Identical
cTcuanstances-each of them dying while
reading q letter except Marcy, who was pc.
rusing Cowper's poems!
Hold your hand against the ribs on your
left side, front,-the regular, steady beat
ing OF the great force pump" of the sys-
Ten, run by an unknown and mysterious
Few persons like to count their own
pulse.beats, and fewer persons still enjoy
marking the "thub-thub" of their own
heart.
What JI should slip q 6eat!w
AS a matter of fact the heart is the least
susceptible to primary disease of any of
mach injured by certain long-continued
concessions of the vital organs, like the
kidneys, liver and stomach. Moreover,
blood filled with uric acid produces a
rheumatic tendency, 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 malady in the blood or
other vital organs. That is, it is not the
original source Of the fatal malady.
The work of the heart is to force blood
organs are sound it is an easy task. If
they are at all diseased, it is a very, very
hard task. Take as an illustrations: The
kidneys are very subject to congestion
and yet, being deficient in the nerves of
sensation; this %congested condition is not
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 weakens it every year, and
"a mysterious" sudden death claims
another victim!
lIThis is the true history of "heartdisease,"
80 called, which in reality is chiefly a
secondary effect of Bright's disease of the
Kidneys, and indicates the universal need
of that renowned specific, Warmers safe
cure.
B. F. Earrabee, ESQ.,, of Boston, who
was by it so wonderfully cured of Bright's
disease, in 1879, says that with its disap-
pearance went the distressing heart dis
order, which he then discovered was only
secondary to the renal trouble.
There is q general impression that the
medical profession is not at fault if it
frankly admits that heart disease is the
cause of death. In other words, a cure of
heart disease is not expected of them!
There may be no help for a broken
down, worn out, apoplectic heart, but
there is a help for the kidney. disorder
which in most cases is responsible for the
heart trouble, and if it's use put money and
fame into the treasury of the profession
instead of into the hands of an indepen-
dent investigator. every. graduated doctor
in the world would exclaim of it, as one,
nobler and less prejudiced than his fellows,
once exclaimed: sit is a God-send to hu.
manity!o
What therefore must be the public esti.
mate of that bigotry and want of frank
ness which forbids in such cases (because
forsooth it is a proprietary a~rticle), the use
of the one effective remedial agency of the
ag ,s?...,:,nm ,-,
such things by their right names?
Why not?
"Dead without a moments warming"
This likewise is an untruth! Warning!
are given by the thousand. Physicians
are I" not surprised" They "expectet
it" They know what the end will be, bu
the victim?-"oh no, he mustn't be told
you know, it would only brighten him, fol
there is no help, you know, for it,"
The fate that attended Little Mac" ant
the five governors is not a royal and ex'
elusive one-it threatens every one WHIT
fails to heed the warnings of nature as SCI
forth above.