Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-11-27
DROPPED DEAD"
The Fate that Ovcrcame 'sLittle NIac,'
and Five other Governors

Aprepos of the sudden death OF Gen.
Geo. b. Mcclellan, we nete that the
New York Sun, points out the singular
fact thSt Governor Dewitt Clinton.
Governor Silas Wright, Governor Viii
liam L. Marcy, Governor and Chief
Justice Sanford E. Church, and Gov
ernor r, E. Fenton, all of New York
State, dropped dead of heart disease,
and uader quite identical circumstances
each of them dying irhile reading a
letter ercept Marcy, who was perusing
Cowper's poems!
Hold your hand against the ribs on
your left side, front,-the regular.
steady beating of the great "force
pump of the system, run by an un-
known and mysterious Engineer, is aw-
full in its impressiveness!
Few persons like to count their own
pulse beats, and fewer persons still
enjoy marking the "thub-thub" of
their own heart.
What if it should skip beat.'
As a matter of fact the heart is the
least suscep table to primary disease of
any of our vital organs. 1t Is, however,
very much injursd by certain long con-
tinued congestions of the vital organs,
like the kidneys, liver and stomach.
Moreover, blood filled with uric acid
produces a rheumatic tendency, and is
very injurious to healthful heart action,
it often proves fatal, and, OF course,
the uric acid comes flom impaired kid
ney action.
Roberts, the great English authority,
says that heart disease is chiefly sec
ondary to some more fatal malady in
the blood or other vital organs. That
Is, it is not the original source of the fa-
tai malady.
The work of the heart il to force
blood into every part of the system. If
the organs are sound it is an easy task.
If thay arc at all diseased, it is very,
very hard task, Take as aa illustration:
The kidneys are very subject to con-
gestion and yet, being deficient in the
nerves of sensation, this Congested con-
dition is not indicated by pain. 1t may
exist for years, unknown even to physi-
Clans, and if it does not result in com
plete destruction of the kidneys, the ex-
ira work which is forced upon the heart
weakens it every year, and-a "mys-
terious" sudden death claims another
victim!
This is the true history Of ''hearu dis
ease, = so called, which in reality is
chiefly secondary effect of Bright's
disease of the kidneys, and indicates the
universal need of that renowned specific
Warher's safe cure.
B. F. Larrabee, ESQ.,, of Boston, who
was by it SO wonderfully cure2 of
Bright's disease, in 1879, says that with
its disappearance went tie distressing
heart disorder, which he then discovered
was only secondary to the renal trobble.
TRere is a general impression that the
medical profession is not at fault if it
frankly admits that heart disease is the
cause OF death. In other words cure of
heart disease is not expected of them.
There may be no help for a broken
down, worn our, appoplectic heart, but
there is help for the kidney disorder
which IN most cases is responsible for
the heart trouble, and if its use put
money and fame into the treasury of
the profession instead of into the hands
of an independent investigator, every
graduated doctor in the world would
exclaim of it, as one, nobler and less
prejudiced than his fellows, once ex-
claimed: cit is y Gcd-send - human
ityr'
What therefore must be the public
estimate OF that bigotry and want Of
1rankAess WnICn forb1dS IN such cases
because foresooth it is a proprietary
article, the use of the one effective
remedial agency of the age?
Heart disease" indeed! Why not
call such thing by their right names?
Why not?
Dead without moments warming"
This likewise is an untruth! Warnings
are given by the thousand. Physicians
are "not surprised" They expected
it," They know what the end will be,
but the victim?-"oh, no, he mustn't be
told, you know, it would only frighten
hina, for there is no help, you know, for
it"
The fate that attended Little Mac"
and the five governors is not yal and
exclusive ene-it threatens every one
who fails to heed the warnings of ma
ture as set forth above.