The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-06

someone Has Blundered
Can IL be Possible ?

The New York HerIii says III Gen
eral Grant should recover from a dis
lease which should prove not 70 have
.'bcen what il has been described, then
"hl, medical attendants Will be
expected TO explain the reasons toT one
''ot the most remarkable Instances u dis
..crepancy ever r~ecounted ia the history
'of medical practice.
The other day an eminent physician 10
the last stages Of consumption, unable
longer to talk, called Tor pen and paper
aud indistiuctly wrote this advice 70 his
physicians Make dying comfortable.
TIKI, seems 10 have been the sole pur-
poe Of General Grant attending ply
sicians, They were making dying CON
Portable, but they wee not curing their
patient. He amaZes them by getting
better :
The utter failure rightly to diagnose
and properly to treat General Grant ;
disorder was a serious blundcr, empha-
sizing what has 80 often been saI1, that
professional treatment. being purely eX-
perimental, IS Just a. likely TO be wrong
a. right.
Had the general an ulcer on his arm
the physicians would have treated u
scientifically, very scleutlclheaily. lie
might have recovered or they might have
cut his arm of. Some dear Old soul +
a grandmother, however, might have
treated the sore by some 'old woulan's
remedy and healed it, but there would
have been no professional science IN
such a proceeding. as her remedy would
not be one recognized by the code
The generals physicians excuse hem
selves, we are told, because the condl-
ton of the throat was hidden from sight.
There are thousands OF cases where dis
ease Is hidden from sight, where the
| symptoms are very obscure and conflict
ing. The physicians will treat everyday :
| symptoms but they do not cure, and
finally the patient dies. Then they dis
cover they have made a mistake A
horrible mistakei The other day a prom
ineut merchant in a nelghborlng city was
found dead in bed. \ post mortem eX-
animation revealed the fact that enc of
his other vital organs was entirely de-
cayed, 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. Why: by Will
power: No. By faith? No.
They live because outside the medical
profession and medical pretense there
are effective remedial agencies N
ture which, though ''unreco.nized" by
the code, have supreme power over dis
! aaSa md in thousands n. casa. win
triumphs where the so called scientific
treatment utterly fails.
a prominent ex-cabinet officer is to-
day on the very edge of the grave, suf-
fering from an extreme disorder OF the
liver. His doctors know they cannot
cure him. They simply are making dy-
ing comfortable.
The agony Of death III many cases i
read by surrounding friends in scream
of pain, in commissions of nerve, in
spasms of torture-the fixed eve, the
chilly breath, the dreadful coughing, the
bloody sweat-the supreme infections
of pitiless disease npon a helpless body.
indicate the limitations Of professional.
skill"
Seven-teenths of the deaths Of this
country every year are from hepatlc anC
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 per-
nit the use of remedies unauthorized
by their code, whether they are allopa-
tic or homeopathic. If the system. as
is common at this time of the year, has
no tone, and one has tired and depress.
ed feelings, the doctor will tell you that
the blood needs purifying, but he vii.
not tell you, what he knows to be true
that the blood is impure because the
liver and kidneys are not performing
their blood purifying functions.
The failure of the physicians III Gen
eral Grants case ought to have an eye.
opening effect upon the public. 1t oughr
to see the tutllity oftrusting entirely il
a profession whose practice is so largely
experimental The test ofmerit is sue.
cess and Then any agency has won {
record proved by the testimony ofprom.
ineut men and women in all ranks 0
society, it stands to reason that such q
preparation is worthy of universal con.
iidence. Who has not heard Of it. Who
has not used it? Who can gainsay the
statement that it has wrought greater
benefit for mankind than anything ever
discovered inside the ranks of the med.
ical profession? And yet many physi.
clans who are bound hand and foot tt
their code will not allow nor will they
prescribe the use of Warmers safe cure
Nevertheless, spite of their small-mind'
ed bigotry, it multiplies Instances of its
singular merit by thousands every day
rests satisfied with the record it ma.
won, and challenges comparison Will
the record OF the most reputable physi-
clan.
1t is a terrible thing TO loose oul
friends, especially if we find out after
war3s that they might have been saved
We are glad General Grant IS gettinG
we'll. He deserves to live and in living
he will emphasize the fact that physi
clans do not have a monopoly Over
disease; that scientific medicine Sc
called, is not infallible: that all rene
dial agencies were not born with doc
tons and will not die with them.