The Indiana State sentinel., 1885-06-10
FOUR ACTS PLAYED.
Sad Report About Ex-President Arthur
VIII the Fifth and Final Act be
Tragedy?
[ROchester Democrat and Chronicle.l

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
'Dr. Lincoln, who was at the funeral of
ex Secretary Frelinghuyssn, says ex.Presi-
dent Arthur looked very unwelI. He is
suffering from Brights disease. Daring
the past year it has assumed very aggta.
waited form"
That telegram is act ". OF a drama written
By ex-President Arthur's physicians. In act
I. 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, waking the sands at Old Poiat Com.
fort and looking eastward over the Atlantic
toward Europe for a longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for act III. upon the
DISTINGUISHED actor affected with meisacholv
from Bright's disease, while Act ". disc0v-
ers him with the disesse 'in an aggravated
form, suffering intensely, (Which is unusual)
and about TO take sea voyage"
just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by play-wrights of the msdical pro-
fessicn. Thsy write the frst two or three
acts with no conception OF what their char
acier will develop IN the final one.
They have not the discernment for tracing
in the early what the latter impsrsonatioos
will be. Not one physician in q hundred has
the adequate microscopic aud chsmical ap-
pliances for discovering Brights disesse in
its early siages aud when many do iually
comprehend that their patients are dying with
it, when death occurs they will, to cover up
their ignorance of it, pronounce the fatality
20 have been caused by ordinary ailments.
where's these ailments are really resu is OF
Brighte disease, of which they are uncon-
sciOus victims.
Beyond any doubt, so per cent. of ali
deaths except from epidemics aud accidents.
resuit from diseased kidneys or livers. If
the dying be distinguished, and his friends
too intelligent to be easily deceived, his ply
sicisne, perhaps, pronouncs the complaint TO
be pericaTditiE, pyemis, septicae MIA bron-
ohitis, pleuritis. valvular LESSONS ct the
heart, pneumonia, etc. Ii the deceased be
less noted. malaria" is now the fashionable
assignment OF the cause Of death.
But al the same, named right or named
wrong, this fearful sconrge gathers them in.
tary hebits-lawyers, clergymen, Congress-
men-it also plays great havoc smsng farm
ers, 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.
1t sweeps thousands of women and chill
dTen into untimeiy graves every year. The
health gives way gradually, the strength is
variable, the appetite is fickle, 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?
Ne, nature has not been remiss Indepen-
dent research has given an infalIible remedy
for this common disorder; bat of course the
bigoted physicians 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 mea"
80 Fal6 md oa tho ehr ysar1ld
cay, sounds "stupid"-especially stupid"
since this disease is readily deteo:ed by the
more learned men and specialists OF this
disease. But the common run" OF physic.
isps, not detecting it, give ths patient Epson
sslts or other drugs prescribed By the old
code OF treatment under which their grand
fathers and great-grandfathers practicsd!
Anon, we hear that the patient is "com.
Portable" But ere long, may be, they tap
him and take some water from him and
Ggein the comfortable" story is told. Tor
tuIe him rather than allow him to use
Warner's safe cnre! With such variations
the doctors play upon the unfortunate until
his shroud is made, when we learn that he
died from heart disease, py@mia ssptice mia
or scme other deceptive though "digni6ed
cause"
Ex-PresideDt Arthur's cass is not singular.
II is ty pical of every such csse. He is SUI.
fering intensely" This is not usual Gen.
erally there is almost no suffering Hs msy
recover, if he will act independently of his
physicians. The agency named has cured
thousands OF persons, even in the extreme
stsgss-is to-day the main stay Of tue nsaith
of hundreds of thousands. 1t is an Uufo-tu-
nate fact that physicians will not admit there
is any virtue outside Their own sphere, but
as each school denies virtue to all otasTs the
people act ca their own Judgment and so-
cept things by the record of merit they make.
Tne facts are cause for alarm, but there is
abundant hope in prompt and Independent
action.