St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-20
FOUR ACTS PLAYED
Sad Report About Ex-President Arthur
VIII the Fifth and Final Act Be a
Tragedy.

VIII the Fifth and Final Act Be
Tragedy.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.1
s'Dr. Lincoln, who was at the funeral of"
"ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, says ex-"
president Arthur looked very unwell."
SHE is suffering from Bright's disease"
"During the past year it has assumed a"
"very aggravated FORM"
That telegram is Act Nv. of drama
written by ex-President Arthur's physi-
clans. In Act |. he was made to appear in
malaria, - 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 at Old
Point Comfort 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 mel
ancholy from bright's disease, while Act
". discovers him with the disease sin an
aggravated form, suffering intensely,
(Which is Unusually and about to take sea
voyage"
Just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by play wrights of the medical
profession. They write the first two or
character will develop in the final one.
They have not the discernment for trac-
ing in the early what the latter imperson-
ations will be. Not one physician in
hundred has the adequate microscopic and
chemical appliances for discovering
bright's disease in it's early stages, and
| when many do finally comprehend that
their patients are dying with it, when
| death occurs, they will, to cover up their
| ignorance of it, pronounce the fatality to
have been caused by ordinary ailments,
| whereas these ailments are really results
| of bright's disease of which they are un-
| conscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, 80 per cent. of all
| deaths except from epidemics and acci-
| dents, result from diseased kidneys or
livers. If the dying be distinguished and
| his friends too intelligent to be easily de-
ceived, his physicians perhaps pronounce
| the complaint to be pericarditis, pyamIa,
septicamia, bronchitis, pleuritis, valvular
| LESSONS of the heart, pneumonia, 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
inI While it prevails among persons OF
sedentary habits,-lawyers, clergymen
| congressmen,-it also plays great havoc
among farmers, day laborers and mechan'
les, though they do not suspect it, because
their physicians keep it from them, II in
deed they are able to detect it.
It sweeps thousands of women and chill
dren into untimely graves every year. Iht
health gives way gradually, the strength
/ is variable, the appetite tickle, the vigol
gets less and less. This isn't malaria
IS the beginning of kidney disease and vii
end-who does not know how!
No, nature has not been remlss. indie
pendent research has given an 1nfaIlbIt
remedy for this common disorder; but O.
course the bigoted physician will not us'
I Warmers safe cure, because 1t is prIVaT
affair and cuts up their practice by restor
ing the health of those who have been In
valids for years.
The new saving of chow common bright
disease is becoming among prominen
men |" is getting old, and as the English
man would say, sounds sstEs3id"-espec
tally stupid" since this disease is readily
detected by the more learned men and spe
cialists of this disease. But the common
run of physicians, not detecting 1T, CIV
the patient EPSON salts or other drugs pre-
scribed by the old code of treatment unde
which their grandfathers and great-grand
fathers practiced!
Anon, we hear that the patient is "com
Portable" But ere long, maybe, they tai
him and take some water from MN anC
again the s'comforta Bile" story is told. Tor
tiIre him rather than allow him to as
Warmers safe cureI With such variation
the doctors play upon the untortunat
until his shroud IS made, when we 1earl
that he died from heart disease, pyemla
septicamia or some other deceptive though
Ex-President Arthur's case is not singu
Iar-it is typical of every such case. II
is suffering intensely" This is not usual
Generally there is almost no suffering
He may recover, if he will act independ
emily of his physicians. The agenc!
named has cured thousands of persons ever
in the extreme stages-is to-day the main
stav of the health of hundreds of thou
sands. 1t is an unfortunate fact that ply
sicians will not admit there is any vir
tue outside of their own sphere, but a
each school denies virtue to all others, tn
people act on their own Judgment and &C
cept things by the record of merit the,
make
The facts are cause for alarm, but ther
is abundant hope in prompt and independ
emit action.