The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-25
a SINGULAR BOOK.
ScintiIlsting With Sarcasm and Brilliant
With Truth.

scintiIlsting With Sarcasm and Brilliant
With Truth.
New York Correspondence American Rural
Home
Chap. l. "Has Malaria;" goes to Flor
ida.
Chap. II. "Overworked;" goes to Eu-
rope.
Ems.
Chan. ". Has a row with his Doctor!
The above chapters, Mr.. Editor, ind In
a book recently published by an anony-
nous author. 1 have read deal OF sar-
caSm in nv day, but l never read any
thing equal to the sarcasm herein con-
tanned. | suspect the experience portrayed
is personal one; in short, the author IN
Inmates as much on page 81. Let me give
you Q synopsis: 49,
malaria as it states, is the cloak with
which superficial physicians cover up
multitude ofill feelings which they do not
understand, and do not much care to lnveS-
tirate 1t is also a cover for such diseases
as they cannot cure. When they advise
their patient to travel or that he has
overw6rked and needs rest and Is
probably suffering from malaria. 1t Is a
ConfessiOnsof ignorance or OF inability.
The patient goes abroad. The change is
tonic and for a time he feels better. Comes
home. Tickle appetite, frequent head
| aches, severe colds, cramps, sleepieSsnesS,
! irritability. tired feelings, and general I'M
/ fitness for business are succeeded IN due
/ time bv alarming attacks of rheumatism
which fit about his body regardless OF all
/ human feeling.
| Ii is muscular,-in his back. Articular,
] in his Joints. InhammatOry, my! how
| he fears it will fly to his heart! Now of
/ he goes to the springs. The doctor SENDS
J l.. e 70 rot ~al 3
same time he does not really want hun TO
die on his hands!
| That would hurt his business!
| Better for a few davs. Returns. After
| a while neuralgia tranSiiXeS him. be
/ bloats: can not breathe; has pneumonia;
can not walk; can not sleep on his left
| side; is fretful; very nervous and lrrlta-
| BILE: is pale and fiabby; has frequent chills
and fevers; everything about him seems
| TO go wrong; becomes suspicious; musterS
I'D strength and demands to know what is
killing him!
'Great heavenw he cries, "why have
YOU kept me so long in ignorance"
Because" said the doctor, II read your
fate five years ago. thought best to keep
you comfortable and ignorant of the facts. =
| He dismisses the doctor, but too late
His fortune has all gone to fees.
But him, what becomes OF him?
The other day a well-known Wall street
| IL
how General bright's disease is becoming
Two of my personal friends are now dying
of it. But it is not incurable l am certain
for nv nephew was recently cured when
his physicians said recovery was impossi'
bic. The case seems to me to be Won
derful one" This gentleman formerly
represented his government in foreign
country He knows, appreciates and de-
clares the value of that preparation, be-
cause his nephew, who is son of Danish
Vice-ConsUl Schmidt, was pronounced In
durable when the remedy, Warmers SAFE
cure, was begun. EYES," said his father
81 was very skeptical. but since taking
that remedy the boy is we'll"
| regret TO note that ex-President Ar
thur is said to be a victim of this terrible
disease. He ought to live, but the prOba
bilities are that since authorized remedie;
can not cure him, his physicians Will MOI
advise him to save his life, as so mary
thousands have done, by the use of War
uer's safe cure, which Gen. Christensen
at Drexel, Morgan & Co.'s, told me he re-
Carded ''as wonderful remedy"
Well, | suspect the hero of the BOOB
cured himself by the same means. The IN
terual evidence points very strongly u
this conclusion.
| can not close nv notice of this boob
better than by quoting his advice to Ill;
readers:
"If, my friend, you have such an expe.
rience as l have portrayed, do not pat
your trust in physicians to the exclusion
of other remedial agencies. They have
no monopoly over disease and personally
know that many of them are so very con
scientious' that they would far prefer that
their patients should 20 10 Heaven dircc
from their powerless hands than that they
should be- saved 10 earth by the use of any
unauthorized means"
And that the authors condemnation !:
too true, how many thousands duped, anc
vet rescued, as he was, can personally tes'
tify?