The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-08
General Hrant,a case.
"soMEoNR HAS BLuSD RED l"--oAN 1T BIZ
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The New York Herald says ''lf Gen.
| 'eral Grant should recover from disease
(which should prove not TO have been
| "what II has been described, then his med
| ''ical attendants will be expected to
| "explain the reasons for one OF the most
remarkable instances of discrepancy ever
''recounted in the history Of medical pract-
| "tice-"
| The other day an eminent young physi-
clan in the last stages Of consumption, un-
| able longer to talk, called for pen aud
paper a, indistncty wrote this advice to
his physicians Make dying comfortable"
The utter failure rightly TO diagnose and
properly to treat General Grants disorder
was a serious blunder, emphasizing what
has so often been said, that professional
reatmcnt, 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 scientific
ally, very scientifically. He might have
recovered or they might have cut his
arm off. Some dear old soul of a grand
mother, 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 a proceed
| ing, Us her remedy would not be one re-
coGnzed 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 disease
is hidden from sight, where the symptoms
are very obscure and conflicting. The
physicians will treat everyday's symptoms
but they do not cure, and finally the pa
tient dies. Then they discover they have
! made mistake A horrible mistake!
The other day prominet merchant in a
| neighboring city was found dead in bed.
A post mortem examination revealed the
fact that one of his other vital organs wasen-
tirely decayed, and yet his physicians had
been treating him for heart disease!
Some one has bundered
For weeks the American public have
been waiting the unwelcome tidings of
| General Grants death. To-day, the gen.
eral is up and around and riding out.
People get well often in spite of what
their doctors say and do. Why? By will
power? No. By faith2 No
They live because outside the medical
profession and medical pretense there arc
effective remedial agencies in nature
| which, though ''unrecognized" 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 comfortable.
| 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 infiictions of pitiless disease
upon helpless body,-indicate the limi-
tations of professional skill"
Seven.tenths of the deaths of this coun-
try every year are from hepatic and renal
disorders, over which physicians have so
little power. They will give this, 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
unauthorized" by their code, whether
they are allopathic or homeopathic. II the
system, as is common at this time of the
year has no tone, and one has tired and de-
pressed feelings, the doctor will tell you
that the blood needs purifying, but he will
not tell you, what he knows to be true,
that the blood is impure because the liver
and kidneys are not performing their
bood'purifying functions.
The failure of the physicians in General
Grants case ought to have an eye-opening
effect upon the public. 1t ought to see the
futlity of trusting entirely in a profession
whose practice is so largely experimental.
The test OF merit is success and when any
agency has won record proved by the tes-
timony of prominent men and women IN
all ranks of society, it stands to reason that
such preparation is worthy of universal
| Cohhucncc' VINO mas not nearu OF IL
Who has not used it? Who can gainsay
the statement that it has wrought greater
benefit for mankind than anything ever
discovered inside the ranks of the medical
profession? And yet many physicians
who are bound hand and foot to their code
will not allow nor will they prescribe the
use of Warmers safe cure. Nevertheless,
spite of their small-minded bigotry, it mul-
tipies instances of its singular merit by
thousands every day, rests satisfied with
the record it has won, and challenges com.
parison with the record of the most reputa-
BILE physician.
1t is terrible thing to lose our friends,
especially if we find out atterwards 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 do
not have monopoly over disease; that
"scientific medicine" so called is not in
'allible; that all remedial agencies were not
born with doctors and will not die with
them.
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