Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-08
FOUR ACTS PLAYED.
Sad Report A bout Ex-President Arthur
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Sad Report A bout Ex President Arthur
Will the Fifth and Final Act be q Ira
gedy?
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
"Dr Lincoln. who was at the funeral OF
"ex.Secre AIRY Frelinghuysen, says ex.Presi-'
"dent Arthur looked very unwell. He is"
suffering from Bright's disease. During
1.-THE past yesr 1t has assumed very aggra."
"vated FORM"
That telegram is act Nv. of drama written
by ex-President Arthurs physicians. In act
|. he was made to appear in "Mala-ia," of
which all the country was told when he went
to Florida.
In Act II. he represented a tired man, worn
down, walking the sands of Old Point Com.
fort and looking eastward over the Atlantic
toward Europe for longer rest.
The curtain rolls up tor Act III. upon the
distinguished actor affected with melancholy
from Brights disease, while Act Nv. discov-
| ers him with the disease 'in an aggravated
| form, suffering intensely, (which Is unusual)
and about to take a sea voyage"
Just such as this is the plot of many dra-
mas by play-wrights of the medical profes-
sion. They write the first two or three acts
with no conception of what t.,eir character
will develop in the fnal one.
| They have not the discernment for tracing
in the early, what the latter impersonations
will be. Not one physician in a hundred has
the adequate microscopic and chemical appli-
ances for discovering Bright's disease in its
early stages, Pnd when mauy do finally COM
prehend that their patients are dying with it,
when death occr,, they will, to cover up
their ignorance Of 1t, pronounce the fatality
to have been caused by ordinary ailments
whereas these ailments are really results Of
Brights disease, OF which they are uncon-
scious victims.
Beyond any doubt, 80 per cent. of all
deaths except from epidemics and accidents,
result from diseased kidneys or livers. If the
dying be distinguished and his friends too in
telligent to be easily deceived, his physicians
perhaps pronounce the complaint 10 he per-
icarditis, pyTmia, septicaInia, bronchitis,
pleuritis, valvular, LESSONS of the heart, pneu-
monia, etc. II the deceased be less noted,
"malaria' is now the fashionable assignment
OF the cause of death.
But all the same, named right or named
wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in |
While 1t prevails among persons of sedentary
habi,s,-lawyers, clergy congressman.
it also plays great havoc among farmers, day
laborers and mechanics, though they do not
suspect it, because their physicians keep il
/ .
1t sweeps thousands of women and chill.
dren into untimely graves every year. The
health gives away gradually, the strength is
variable, the appetite fckle, 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?
No, nature has not been remiss. Indepen.
dent research has given an infallible remedy
for this common disorder; but OF course the
bigoted physicians will not use Warmers safe
cure, because it is a private affair and cuts up
their practice by restoring the health of those
who have been invalids tor years.
The new saying Of show common Bright's
disease is becoming among prominent men p
is getting old, and AZ the Englisbman would
cay, sounds stupid especially "stupid''
since this disease is readily det" cted by the
more learned men and specialists OF the
disease. But the common run" OF phys.
: clans, not detecting 1t, give the patient EPSON
salts or other drugs prescribed by the old code
OF treatment under which their grandiathers
and great-grandfathers practcedI
Anon we hear that the patient is "comfort-
able" But ere long, maybe, they "tap" him
and take some water from him, and again
the comfortable" story is told. Torture him
rather than allow him to use Warners's safe
cure! With such variations the doctors play
upon the unfortunate until his shroud Il
made, when we learn that he died from heart
disease, pyamia. septcamia or some other de.
deceptive though "dignifed cause"
Ex-President Arthur's case is not singular
it Is typical Of every such case. "He II
suffering intensely" This 10 not usual. Gen.
orally there Is almost no suffering. He may
recover, If be will &C. independently Of hi
physicians. The agency named has cured
thousands Of persons even in the extreme
stages-is today the mainstay of the health
OF hundreds of thousands. II is an unfortu.
nate fact that physicians will not admit there
Is any virtue outside their own sphere, but as
each school denies virtue to all others, the
people act on their own judgment and accept
things by the record of merit they make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but there ID
abundant hope In prompt and independent
action.