Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-05-09
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
Something Has Blundered !"-Can it
be Possible?

"disease which should prove not to
"have been what ithas been described,
"then his medical attendants *
"will be expected to explain the rea-
"sons for one of the most remarkable
'instances of discrepancy ever re-
"counted in the history of medical
practice"
The other day an eminent young
physician in the last stages of con-
rumption, unable longer to talk, call
ed for pen and paper and indistinct-
ly wrote thisadvice to his physicians:
snake dying comfortable"
This seems to have been the sole
purpose Of General Grants attending
physicians. They were making dy-
ing comfortable, but they were not
curing their patient. He amazes
them by getting better!
The utter failure rightly to dag
nose and properly to treat General
Grants disorder was serious blum
der, emphasizing what has so often
been said, that professional treat
ment, being purely experimental, is
just as likely to be wrong as right.
Had the general an ulcer on his
arm the physicians would have treat
ed it scientifically, very scientifically.
He might have recovered or they
might have cut his arm off. Some
dear old soul of a grandmother, how
ever, might have treated the sore by
some "old woman's remedy" and
healed it, but there would have been
no professional science" in such a
proceeding, as her remedy would not
be one recognized by the code!
The generals physicians excuse
themselves, we are told, because the
condition of the throat was hidden
from sight. There are thousands of
cases where disease is hidden from
sight. Where the symptoms are very
obscure and conflicting. The physi-
clans will treat everyday's symptoms
but they do not cure, and finally the
patient dies. Then they discover
they have made mistake! A hor-
rible mistake! The other day a
prominent merchant in a neighbor-
ing city was found dead in bed. A
post mortem examination revealed
the fact that one of his other vital
organs was entirely decayed, and yet
his physicians had been treating him
for heart disease:
Some one has Numbered.
For weeks the American public
have been waiting the unwelcom
tidings of General Grants death. To
} day, the general is up and around
and riding out.
| People get well often in spite O
t what their doctors say and do. Why
By will power? No. BY faith? No
They live because outside the med
zeal profession and medical pretens,
there are effective remedial agencie
in nature which, though "unrecog
) nized" by the code, have suprem,
r power over disease, and in thousand
q of cases win triumphs where the s,
Y called scientific treatment utterl.
r fails.
+ A prominent ex-cabinet officer
> today on the very edge of the grave
suffering from an extreme disorde
" of the liver. His doctors know the,
cannot cure him. They simply ar
r making dying comfortable.
:, The agony of death in many case
Is is read by surrounding friends il
screams of pain, in commissions c
:. nerve, in spasms of torture-the fix
ed eye, the chilly breath, the dread
u full coughing, the bloody sweat-th
y supreme infections of pitiless diseas
d upon helpless body,-indicate tn
G limitations Of professional skill"
If Seven-tenths of the deaths of thi
country every year are from hepati
N and renal disorders, over which ply
:. sicians have so little power. The
= will give this, and the other thing
60 make dying comfortable, but the
y know they cannot cure and yet the
re will not permit the use of remedi'
Unauthorized" by their code, whetl
or er they are allopathic or homeop,
70 thic. If the system, as is common
- this time Of the year, has no ton
" and one has tired and depressed fee
10 ings, the doctor will tell you that IL
us blood needs purifying, but he wi
RS not tell you, what he knows to
k, true, that the blood is impure b
A cause the liver and kidneys are nj
he performing their blood-purifyir
- functions.
The faiIurn of tha nhUSicionS