The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-09
FOUR ACTS PLAYED
Sad Report About Ex President
Arthur win the Fifth and
Final Act be n Tragedy.

"llr, Lincoln, VINO was nj the IuneTNl
"of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen. says
EEK President Arthur looked ver- I'M
swell. lie Is suffering from Bright's
"disease. During the past year 1t has
"as-umed II very aggravated form
That telegram IL act " OF drama
written by ex-rresident Arthur's physi-
clans. In Act he was made to appear
In Malaria OF which all the country
wa, told when he went to Florida.
In Act II he represented n tired man,
worn down, walking the sands at Old
Point Comfort and looking eastward
over the Atlantic toward Europe for
longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III. upon
the distinguished actor affected with
melancholy from bright's disease, while
Act " discovers him with the disease
"ln an aggravated form. suffering in
tensely, (Which Is unusuu) and about to
take u sea voyage"
Just such ms this Is the plot Of many
dramas by play-wrights 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 isceinmcnt :ur
tracing In the early. whit the latter i'm
presentations will be-. Not one physi-
elan in hundred has the adequate mi
Croscopc and chemical appliances for
discovering bright's disease in its early
stnges. and when many do finally COM
prehend that their patients are dying
with IL, when death occurs, they will,
to cover up their Ignorance OF It, pro-
nounce the fatality to have been caused
by ordinary ailments, whereas these all
ments are really results Of bright's dis
ease of which they are unconscious
victims.
Beyond any doubt. 80 per cent. of all
deaths except from epidemics and acct
dents. result from diseased Kidneys or
livcrs. II the dying he distinguished
and his friends too intelligent to be eas-
lily deceived. his physicians perhaps pro-
nOunce the complaint to be periCArdits,
pyWmia. septicWmia. bronchitis. pleuri-
It's, valvular LESSONS of the heart, pneu-
monia, 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 gath
ers them In. While 1t prevails among
persons of sedentary hablts.-lawyers
great havoc among farmers. day laboreis
ind mechanics, though they do not sus-
pect It, because their physicians keep
II from them, If indeed they are able to
detect IL.
II 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 2
No, nature has not been remiss. indie
pendent research has given an infallible
remedy for this common disorder; but of
course the bigoted physicians will not
use Warmers safe cure, because II is
private affair and cuts up their practice
by restoring the health Of those who
have been invalids for years.
The new saying OF chow common
bright's disease Is becoming among
prominent men, is getting old. and us
the Englishman would say, sounds
"stupid"-especially "stupid" since this
disease Is readily detected by the more
learned men and specialists of this di-
sease. But the common run" of phys-
clans, not detecting it, give the patient
EPSON salts or other drugs prescribed by
their grand-fathers and great-grandfath-
ers practiced.
Anon, we hear that the patient is
comfortable But ere long. maybe,
they tap him and take some water
from him and again the comfortable
story ia told. Torture him rather than
allow him TO use Warmers safe cure.
with such variations the doctors play
upon the unfortunate until his shroud is
made, when we learn that he died from
heart disease, pyWmia. septicMmia or
some other deceptive thou Oh "digniiied
cause"
EX-President Arthur's case il not
singular-it is typical ofevery such case.
"lle is suffering Intensely This is not
usual. Generally there is almost no
suffering. lie may recover. if he will
act independently ofhis physicians. The
agency named has cured thousands of
persons even In the extreme stages, Is
to-day the mainstay of the health of
hundreds Of thousands. 1t is an unfor-
tunate fact that physicians will not ad-
nit there is any virtue outside their
own sphere, but ms each school denies
virtue to all others, the people act on
their own Judgment and accept things
by the record of merit they make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but
there is abundant hope In prompt and
independent action.
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