News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-07-02
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Sad Report About Ex-President Arthur:
VIII the Fifth and Final Act be n Ira gedy,

VIII the Fifth and Final Act be ira gedy.
| Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
| "Dr. Lincoln, who was at the funeral of ex-
Secretary Frelinghuysen, says ex-President
Arthur looked very unwell. He is SUFFERING
from from Br1ght's disease During the past year
1t has assumed very aggravated form"
mat telegram is act ". of a drama writ
ten by ex'President Arthur's physicians. In
Act l. ne was made to appear in Malaria
OF which all the country was told when he
went to Florida.
| In Act IL he repre- sented tired man, worn
down, walking the san at Old Point Comfort
| and looking eastward over the Atlantic to-
ward Europe for longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act Ill upon the
distinguished actor affected with melancholy
from Brlghts disease, while Act ~ discovers
hlm with the disease sin an aggravated form,
suffering intensely (which is unusuaD and
| about to take a sea voyage"
just such as this is the plot of many dramas
by play -wrights of the medical profession.
They write the first two OF three acts with no
conception of what their character will de-
velop in the final one.
| They have not the discernment for tracing
| IN the early, what the latter impersonations
! VIII be. Not one physician in a hundred has
| the adequate microscopic and chemical app1i-
ances for discovering Bright's disease in it's
early stages, and when many do finally COM
prehend that theft patients are dying with it,
| when death occurs they will to cover TN their
| ignorance of it, pronounce it to have been
caused by ordinary ailments whereas these
ailments are really results of Bright's disease
OF which they are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, so per cent. of all deaths
| except from epldemics and accidents, result
| from diseased kidneys or livers. If the diving
be distinguished and his friends too intelligent
| to be easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be periearditis,
| pyemia, septicemia, bronchitis, pleuritis,
| valvular Lessons of the heart. pneumonia. stc
Sn1 ho
| 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 it prevails among persons of sedentary
| habits-lawyers clergymen, congressmen-it
also plays great havoc among farmers, day
laborers and the mechanics, though they do
not suspect it, because their physicians keep
it from them, if, indeed, they are able to de-
tect it.
1t sweeps thousands Of women and children
into untimely graves every year. Thehealth
gives way gradually the strength is varia-
BILE, the appetite tickle, 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. indie
| pendent research has given an infallible rem
edy for this common disorder; but of course
the bigoted physicians will not use Warmers
| safe cure, because it is private affair and
| of those who have been invalids for years.
The new saying of chow common Bright's
| disease Is becoming among prominent men u
| is getting DID, 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 dis
| ease. But the common rum of physicians,
| not detecting it, give the patient EPSON salts
| or other drugs prescribed by the old code of
treatment under which their grandfathers
| and great grandfathers prescribed.
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 Warmers
safe curel With such variations the doctors
| play upon the unfortunate until his shroud is
| made, when we learn that he died from heart
disease, pyemia, septicemia or some other
deceptive, though Edignified cause.n
Ex-President Arthurs case is not singular
it is typical of every such case. HE i.
suffering intensely" This is not usual. Gen
orally there is almost no suffering. he 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 of thousands. 1t is an unfor
| tunate 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.
These facts are cause for alarm, but there
is abundant hope in prompt and independent
action.