The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-01

Chap. ". Has q row with his Doctor
The above chapters, Mr.. Editor, I find in q
book recently published by an anonymous
day, but I never read anything equal to the
sarcasm herein contained. l suspect the
experience portrayed is a personal one in
sE5Tt, the author intimates as much on page
81. Let me give you a synopsis:
malaria as it states, is the cloak with
which superficial physicians cover up q null
titude of i'll feelings which they do not under
1t is also a cover for such diseases as they
cannot cure. When they advise their pa
tient to travel or that he has over
worked and needs rest and is probably suf-
fering from malaria, it is a confession of ig-
noranco or of inability. The patient goes
abroad. The change is tonic and for a time
he feels better. Comes home Tickle appe-
tite. frequent headaches, severe colds, cramps,
sleeplessness, irritability, tired feelings, and
general unfitness for business are succeeded
in due time by alarming attacks Of rheuma-
tism which fits about his body regardless Of
all human feelings.
1t is muscular5-in his back. Articular,-
in his joints. In1ammatory, my! how he
fears it will fly to his heart! Now off he
goes to the springs. The doctor sends him
there, of course, to get well: at the same time
he does not really want him to die on his
bands!
That would hurt his business!
Better for a few days. Returns. After a
! while neuralgia translates him. He bloats;
cannot breathe; has pneumonia; mo
walk; cannot sleep on his left side, is ~fretful;
very nervous and irritable, is pale and fiabby;
has frequent chills and fevers; everything
about him seems to go wrong; becomes sus-
plcious; musters up strength and demands to
know what is killing him!
"Great heaven?' he cries, swhy nave you
kept mo SO long in ignorance2'
Because said the doctor, II read your
fate five years g c. thought best to keep
you comfortable and ignorant of the facts"
He dislnisses his doctor, but too latei
dis fortune has all gone to fees.
But him, what becomes of him?
The other day a well known Wal street
banker said to me, cit is really astonishing
how general Bright's disease Is becoming.
Two of my personal friends are now dying
Of it. But it is not incuraole, I am certain,
for my nephew was recently cured when his
physicians sssi recovery was impossible.
The case seems to me to be a wonderful one.n
This gentleman formerly represented his gov
eminent in a foreign country. He knows,
appreciates and declares the value of that
preparation, because his nephew, who is a
son OF Danish Vice-Consul Schmidt, was pro-
nounced incurable. when the remedy, War
ner's safe cure, was begun. Eyes," sail his
ANO ""' ~ ohSHU'eu'4 bAo AAAAC kAh
ing the remedy, the boy is we'll"
1regret to note that ex President Arthur is
said to be a victim of this terrible disease.
He ought to live but the probabilities are
that since authorized remedies cannot cure
him, his physicians viii not advise him to
save his life, as SO many thousands have
done, by the use OF Warmers safe cure, which
Gen. Christiabsen, at Drexel, Morgan s.
Co.'S, told me he regarded 'as a wonderful
remedy"
Well, l suspect the hero of the book cured
himself by the same means. The internal
evidence points very strongly to this conclu-
sion.
1 cannot close my notice of this book bet
ter than by quoting his advice to his readers:
"lf, my friend, you nave such an expert
ence as l have portrayed, do not put your
trust in physicians to the exclusion of other
remedial agencies. They nave no monopoly
over disease and personally know that many
Of them are so very conscientious that fhey
would far prefer that their patients shou1lgo
to heaven direct from their powerless bands
than that they should be saved to earth by
the use of any unauthorized means"
And that the authors condemnation is too
true, how many thousands duped, and yet
rescued, as he was, can personally testify9