The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-16
FOUR ACTS PLAYED.
Sad Report About Ex-President
Arthur.
Will the Fifth and Final Act be
a Tragedy?
Rochester Democrat and Chroniele.


"Dr. Lincoln, who was at the funeral
of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, says
ex-President Arthur looked very I'M
well. He is suffering from Bright's
disease. During the past year it has
assumed very aggravated FORM"
That telegram is Act " of drama
written by ex-President Arthur's ply
sicians. In Act l he was made to APP
pear in Malaria" of which all the
country was told when he went to
Florida.
In Act II he represented tired man,
worn down, walking the sands at Old
Point Comfort and looking eastward
over the Atlantic toward Europe for a
longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III upon
the distinguished actor affected with
while Act ~ discovers him with the
disease :" in an aggravated form, suffer
ing intensely. (which is unusuaD and
about to take sea voyage"
Just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by playwrights of the medical
profession. They write the first two or
three acts with no conception of what
their character will develop in the final
one.
They have not the discernment for
tracing in the early, what the latter i'm
presentations will be. Not one physi-
clan in hundred has the adequate
microscopic and chemical appliances
for discovering bright's disease in its
early stages, and when many do finally
comprehend that their patients are dy-
ing with it, when death occurs, they
will, to cover up their ignorance of it,
pronounce the fatality to have been
caused by ordinary ailments, whereas
these ailments are really results of
bright's disease of which they are I'M
conscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, 80 per cent. of all
deaths, except from epidemics and acct
dents, result from diseased kidneys or
hvers: If the dying be distinguished
and his friends too intelligent to be
easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be peri
carditis, pyamia, scepticemia, bron-
chitis, pleuritis, valvular LESSONS of the
heart, pneumonia, etc. If the deceased
be less noted, malaria" is now the
fashionable assignment of the cause of
death.
But all the same, named right or
named wrong, this fearful scourge
gathers them I'M While it prevails
among persons of sedentary habits
lawyers, clergymen, congressmen-ita also
plays great havoc among farmers, day
laborers and mechanics, though they do |
not suspect it, because their physicians |
keep it from them, if indeed they are |
able to detect it.
1t sweeps thousands of women and |
children into untimely graves every |
year. The health gives way gradually, |
the strength is variable, the appetite |
tickle, the vigor gets less and less. This
isn't malaria-it is the beginning of kid
ney disease and will end-who does not |
know how?
No, nature has not been remiss. In
dependent research has given an infalli- |
BILE remedy for this common disorder;
but OF course the bigoted physicians |
will not use Warmers safe cure, because
it is a private affair and cuts up their
practice by restoring the health of |
The new saying of chow common
bright's disease is becoming among |
prominent menl'' is getting old, |
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 disease. But the /
8 common run" of physicians, not de-
tecting 1t, give the patient EPSON salts
or other drugs prescribed by the old code
Of treatment under which their grand
fathers and great-grandfathers prac-
ticed.
Anon, we hear that the patient is
g comfortable" But ere long. mavbe.
they tap" him and take some water
rom him and again the " comfortable"
story is told. Torture him rather than
an allow him to use Warmers safe cureI
With such variations the doctors play
upon the unfortunate until his shroud is
made, when we learn that he died from
1eart disease, py8mia, scepticamia or
some other deceptive though " dignifed
cause"
Ex-President Arthur's case is not
'ingular-it is typical of every such
:ase. - He is suffering intensely"
This is not usual. Generally there is
almost no suffering. He may recover,
I he will act independently of his ply
'icians. The agency named has cured
thousands OF persons even in the ex-
RENE stages--is to-day the mainstay of {
he health of hundreds of thousands.
t is an unfortunate fact that physicians
will not admit there is any virtue out
ide their own sphere, but as each
chool denies virtue to all others, the
'eople act on their own judgment and
ccept things by the record of merit
hey make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but
here Is abundant hope in prompt and
dependent action.