The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-15
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The New York Herald says: IF Cen
"eral Grant should recover from disease
(which should prove not to have been
what it has been described, then his
Smedical attendants Will be ex-
~pected to explain the reasons for one of
the most remarkable instances of dis
"crepancy ever recounted in the history
" of medical practice"
The. other day an eminent young physi-
clan in the last stages of consumption, un-
able longer TO talk, called for pen and
paper and indistinctly wrote this advice
to his physicians: Make dying comfort
able -
This seems to have been the sole pur-
pose of General Grants attending
physicians. They were making dying
comfortable, but they were not curing
their patient. He amazes them by getting
betteri!
The utter failure rightly to diagnose and
properly to treat General Grants disorder
was serious blunder, emphasizing what
has SO often been said. that professional
treatment, being purely experimental, Is
just as likely to be wrong as right.
Had the General an ulcer on his arm
the physicians would have treated it
scientifically. He might have recovered
or they might have cut his arm off. Some
dear old soul of grandmother, however,
might have treated the sore by some old
woman's remedy" and healed it, but
there would have been no professional
science" in such proceeding. as her
remedy would not be one recognized by
the code
The Generals physicians excuse them
selves, we are told, because the condition
of the throat was hidden from sight
There are thousands Of cases where the
disease is hidden from sight. where the
symptoms are very obscure and conflict
ing. The physicians will treat everyday's
symptoms but they do not cure, and
finally the patient dies. Then they dis
cover they have made mistake! q horri-
bic mistake The other day prominent
merchant in neighboring city was found
dead in bed. A post mortem examination
revealed the fact that one of his other
vital organs was entirely decayed, and yet
his physicians had been treating him for
heart disease
Some one has blundered
For weeks the Ameican public have
been waiting the unweicome tidings Of
General Grants death. Today the Gen
eral is up and around and riding out.
People get well often in spite of what
their physicians say and do. Whyi BY
will power2 No BY faith No.
They live because outside the medical
profession and medical pretense there are
effective remedial agencies in nature
which. though " unrecoRniZed by the
code, have supreme power over disease
and in thousands of cases 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, suffering
from an extreme disorder of the liver.
His doctors know they cannot cure him
They simply are making dying comfort
able
The agony of death in many cases is
read by surrounding friends in screams of
pain. in convulsions of nerve, in spasms OF
torture-the fixed eye the chilly breath,
the dreadful coughing. the bloody sweat
the supreme infections OF pitiless sease
upon helpless body-indcate the limit
ations of professional skill.
Seven tenths of the deaths of this
country every year are from hepatic and
renal disorders. over which physicians
N
that and the other thing to make dying
comfortable. but they know they
cannot cure, and yet they will not
permit the use of remedies unau-
thoriZed - by their code, whether they
are allapathic or homeopathic If the
system. as is common at this time of the
year. has no tone, and one has tired a
depressed feelings, the doctor viii tell you
that The blood needs purifying, but he VIII
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 in General
G ant ase ought TO have an eve opening
effect uTon the public. IL ought to see
the fut iity of trusting entirely in n pro-
fcssion whose practice is so largely per-
Iucntal The test OF merit is success, and
when any agency has won n record proved
by c testimony OF prominent men and
women in all ranks OF C. iety. II stands to
rposs that such preparation ls
wuitIy o. uni ersal con nidence. Who
NOT usei it, ". IN Ca;usay the stite-
n!cnt thnt it has wIou ht greater Eeneft
Tor UUuEini than any thing ever discover
cd inside he ranks of the medical nrofes-
sion And yet many physicians w..a are
bound hand and foot to their ode viii not
allow nor viii they prescribe the use OF
Warmers safe cure. Nevertheless, spite
OF their small inded bigOtry, it mn Iii
plies instances of its singular merit by
thousands every day. rests satisfied with
the record it has wen. and challenges com
parisOn with the record of the most repu-
table physician.
Il IS terri thing to lose our friends.
especially II we find out dftertCGgd that
they might have been saved
We are glad General Grant is getting
well He deserves to live and in living he
will emphasize the fact that physicians 60
not have a monopoly over disease that
scientific medicine so called. is not in
fallible, that all remedial agencies were
not born with doctors and will not die
with them.