The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-09
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
" Someone Has Blundered !''-can it b.
 Possible?

The New York Herald says: "lf Gen "eral Grant should recover from a dis ease which should prove not to have been what 1t has been ascribed, then "his medical attendants will bs expected to explain the reasons for ons "of the most remarkable instanees ol discrepancy ever accounted in the his tory of medical practice"
 The other day an eminent young phy- sician in the last stages of consumption, unable longer to talk, called for pen and paper and indistinctly wrote this advice to his physicians: "Make dying com- fortahle."
 This seems to have been the sole pur- pose of General Grants attending physi- clans. They were making dying com. fortable, but not curing their patient He amazes them by getting betterll
 The utter failure nightly to diagnose and properly to treat General Grants disorder was a serious biunder, empha- sizing what has SO often been said, that professional treatment being purely ex- Perimental, is just as likely to be wrong as right.
 lad the general an ulcer on his arm the physicians would have treated it scientifically, very scientifically. He might have recovered or they mig ht have cut his arm of Some dear old soul of a grandmother, however, might have treated the sore by some old woman's remedy" and healed it, but there would have been no professional science i" in such a proceeding, as her remedy would not be one recognized by the code 1 The generals physicians excuse them selves, we are told, because the condition of the throat was hidden from sight. There are thousands of cases where dis. ease is hidden from sight, where the symptoms are very obs ure and conflict ing. The physicians will treat every days symptoms but they do not cure and finally the patient dies. Then they dis cover they have made a mistakei A horrible mistake The other day prominent merchant in neighborine city was found dead in bed A post mor- tenn 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 blundered.
 For weeks the American public have been waiting the unwelcome tidings of General Grants death. To day, the gen. eral is up and around and riding out.
 People get well often in spite of what their doctors say and do. Why2 By will power? No. By faith2 No.
 They live because outside the medical profession and medical pretence there are effective remedial agencies in nature which, though unrecognized by the code, have supreme power over disease, and in thousands of eases win triumphs where the so-cailed scientific treatment utterly fails.
 A prominent ex. cabinet officer is to- day on the very edge of the grave, sui sersng from an extreme disorder of the liver. His doctors know they cannot cure him. They simply are making dying comfortable.
 The agony of death in many eases is read by surrounding friends in screams of pain, Tn convulsions of nerve, in spasms of torture-.he fixed eye, the chilly breath, the dreadful coughi ,g, the bloody sweat-the supreme in6ictions of pitiless disease upon helpless ,dy,- indicate the limitations of professional skill.
 Seven-tenths of the deaths of this country every year are from hepstic and renal disorders, over which physicians have so little power. They will give this, that and the other thing to make dying comfortable, but they know they cannot cure and yet they will not permit the use of remedies unauthorized by their code, whether they are allonathic or homeopathic. If the system, as is common at this time of the year, has no tone, and one has tired and depressed feelings, the doctor will tell you that the blood needs purifying, but he will not tell you, what he knows to be true, tha. the blood is impure because the liver and kidneys are not performing their blood- purifying functions.
 The failure of the physicians in Gen. erai Grants case ought to have an eve. opening effect upon the public. I, ought to see the futility of trusting entirely m profession whose practice is so largely experimental The test of merit is suc. cess and when any agency has won a record proved by the testimony of prominent men and women in all ranks of society, 1t stands to reason that such a preparation is worthy of universal con6- dence. Who has not heard of it2 Wbe has not used it? Who can gainsay the statement that it has wrought greater bene fit for mankind than anything ever discovered inside the ranks of the medi. cal profession And yet many physi. clans who are bound hand and foot to their code will not allow nor will they prescribe the use oi Warmers safe cure Nevertheless, spite of their small-minded bigctry, it multiplies instances of its sim gular merit by thousands every day, rests satisfied with the record it has won, and challenges comparison with the record of the most reputable physician.
 It is terrible thing to lose our friends, especially if we find out afterwards that they might have. been saved.
 We are glad General Grant is getting well. He deserves to live, and in living he will emphasize the fact that physicians do not have a monopoly over disease that "sci.nti6c medicine" SO called, is not infallible that all remedial aveories