The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-04
A SINGULAR BOOK.
Scinthlating With Sarcasm and BriIliaI
With Truth.

scintulating With Sarcasm and Brilliant
With Truth.
New York Correspondence American Rural
Home.l
Chap. I. ''Has Malaria;" goes to Flor
ida.
Chap. II. "Ovorworked;" goes to Eu.
rope.
Chap. III. elias Rheumatism;" goes to
Ems.
Chap. ". Has row with his Doctor!
The above chapters, Mr.. Editor, I find in
a book recently published by an anony'
nous author. l have read a deal of sar-
casm in my day, but | 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
youa synopsis:
"Malaria," as it states, is the cloak with
whlfh superficial physicians cover up a
muntude ofill feelings which they do not
understand, and do not much care to inves-
tiGate. Ii is also a cover for such diseases
az 6hey cannot cure. When they advise
their patient to travel or that he has
orerworked and needs rest and is
pobably suffering from malaria, it is a
Confession of ignorance or of inability.
The patient goes abroad. The change is a
tcnic and for a time he feels better. Comes
home. Tickle appetite, frequent head
oehes, severe colds, cramps, sleeplessness,
lritability, tired feelings, and general I'M
nfneSS Tor business arc succeeded in due
time by alarming attacks of rheumatism
| which fit about his body regardless of all
| hlman feeling.
EtiA muscular, his back. Articular,
| lin Las Joints. Inhammatory, my! how
he fears it will fly to his heart! Now off
| he goes TO the springs. The doctor sends
/ Cf To not of "a
! same time he does not really want him to
| die on lis hands
| Thatwould hurt his businessi
| Better for o few days. Returns. After
. while neuralgia transfxes him. He
| bloats; tan lot breathe; has pneumonia;
| can not walk; can not sleep on his left
| side; is retful; very nervous and irrita-
BILE; is pale and flabby; has frequent chills
and feveIs; everything about him seems
to so wrong; becomes suspicious; musters
up strength and demands to know what is
| killing hin
Great Aeaven" he cries, "why have
you kept ire so hong in ignorance?"
Because" said the doctor, 81 read your
fate tive years ago | thought best to keep
you comfortable and ignorant of the facts. y
He dismisses the doctor, but too late
His fortunehas all gone to fees.
But him, what becomes of him?
The other day q well-knowu Wall street
banker said to me '"it is really astonishing
how general bright's disease is becoming.
Two of my personal friends are now dying
of it. But it is not incurable | am certain
for my nephew was recently cured when
his physicians said recovery was impossi-
Die. The case seems to me to be q won
derful one" This gentleman formerly
represented his government in a foreign
country. He knows, appreciates and de-
clares tho value of that preparation, be-
| bn iG "a Of oiSl
Vice Consul Schmidt, was pronounced in
durable when the remedy, Warmers safe
cure, was begun YES" said his father
Twas very skeptical, but since taking
that remedy the boy is we'll"
regret to note that ex-President Ar.
thur is said to be victim of this terrible
| disease. He ought to live, but the proba.
bilities are that since authorized remedies
can not cure him, his physicians will not
| advise him to save his life, as SO many
thousands have done, by the use Of War
ner's safe cure, which Gen. Christiansen
at Drexel, Morgan & Co.'s, told me he re-
| garded "as a wonderful remedy"
Well, l suspect the h0ro OF the book
| cured himself by the same means. Tho in.
ternal evidence points very strongly tc
| this conclusion.
can.uot close my notice of this booB
better than by quoting his advice to his
readers:
| "If, my friend, you have such an expo.
| rienca as 1 have portrayed, do not put
| your trust in physicians to the exclusion
Of other remedial agencies. They have
no monopoly oyer disease and personally
know that many of them are SO very 'con-
| scientious' that they would far prefer that
their patients should go to Heaven direct
| from their powerless hands than that they
should be saved to earth by the use of any
| unauthorized means"
And that the authors condemnation is
too true, how many thousands duped, and
| yet rescued, as he was. can personally tes-
| tify?