The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-07-16
FOUR ACTSPLAYED.
Sad Report About Ex-President
Arthur.

3soeuesVeS OemOCraC anu CnrO0lcle.
"Dr. Lincoln who was at the funeral
of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, says
ex.President Arthur looked very un-
well. He is suffering from Bright dis
ease. During the past year it has as
sumed q very aggravated FORM:
That telegram is act w. of drama
written by ex-President Arthur's ply
sicians. In Act I. he was made to ap-
pear in malaria" of which all the
country was told when he went to
Florida.
In Act II. he represented tired man,
worn down, walking the sands at Old
Point Comfort and looking eastward
over the Atlantic toward Europe for
q longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III. up
on the distinguished actor affected
with melancholy from bright's disease,
while Act w. discovers him with the
disease Gin an aggravated form, suffer-
ing intensely, (which is Unusually and
about to take sea voyage"
just such as this is the plot ofmany
dramas by play-wrights OF the medical
profession. They write the first two
or three acts with no conception of
what their character will develop in the
final one.
They have not had the discernment
for tracing in the early, what the latter
representations will be. Not one
physician in a hundred has the ade-
quate microscopic and chemical ap-
pliancesfo 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 re-
suits of bright's disease of which they
are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, 80 per cent. of all
deaths except from epidemics and ac-
cldents, result from diseased kidneys
or livers. Ii the dyingbe distinguished
and his friends too intelligent to be
easily deceived, his physician perhaps
pronounces the complaint to be
pericarditis, py;emia, septic;emia bron-
chltlS, pleuritis, valvular LESSONS OF the
heart, pneumonia, etc. Ifthe deceased
be less noted, "malaria" is now the
fashionable ssignment of the cause of
death.
But all the same, named right or
named wrong,this fearful scourge gath
ers them in! While it prevails among
persons ofscdentary abits,-lawyers,
clergymen, congressmen,-it also paws
great havoc among farmers, day labor
ers and mechanics, though they do not
suspect it, because their physicians
keep it from them, If indeed they are
able to detect it.
1t sweeps thousands of women and
children into untimely graves every
year. The health gives way gradually,
the strength is variable, the appetite
tickle, the vigor gets less and less. This
isn't malarla-it is the beginning Of
kidney disc se and will end-who does
not know how?
No, nature has not been remiss. In
dependent research has given an inf;,l-
lible remedy for this common disorder;
but OF course the bigoted physicians
will not use Warner $ safe cure, because
1t IS a private affair and cuts up their
practice by restoring the health OF those
who have been invalids for years.
''The new saying OF chow common
bright's disease is becoming among
prominent men'' is getting old, and as
the Englishman would say, sounds
"stupid''-especially "stupid'' since
this disease is readily detected by the
more learned men and specialists of
this disease. But the "common run"
OF physicians, not detecting it, give the
patient Epson salts or other drugs
prescribed by the old code OF treatment
under which their grand-fathers and
great-grandfathcrs practiced!
Anon, we hear that the patient is
comfortable" 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 Warmers safe
cure! With such variations the doc
tors play upon the unfortunate until
his shrond is made, when we learn that
he died from heart disease, py:cmi;,,
septiceml:l or some other deceptive
though "digniticd cause"
ExPreSident Arthur's case is not sim
gular-it is typical OF every such case.
"He is suffering intensely.' This is not
usual. Generally there is almost no
suffering. lie may recover, if he will
act independently Of his physicians.
The agency named has cured thousands
OF persons even in the extreme stages,
is to-day the mainstay OF the health OF
hundreds ofthousands. 1t is an unfor-
tunatc fact that physicians will not ad-
NIT 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 is abundant hope in prompt and
independent action.
c. Templeton a leading miller OF Centre
vile, Pa, has failed. Liabilities $50, OOO