Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-06
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
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sible?
The New York Herald says: sgf General Grant
should recover from disease which ehould prove
not to have been what it has been described, then
his medical attendants win be expecfsd to
explain the reason Tor the most remarkable instances
Of dcrepsncy ever recounied in the history Of med.
The other day an eminent young physician in the
last stages Of consumption, unable longer to talk,
called for pen and paper and infisnctly wrote this
advise to his physicians: "Make dying oonlorta.
This seems to have been the sole purpose Of Gen.
eIal Grants attending physicians They were max
ing dying comfortable, but they were not curing
their patient. He amazes them By getting BETTER!
The utter failure yhtiy to diagnose and properly
10 treat General Grants disorder serious blum
der, emphasizing what has 50 often been said, that
professional Treatment, being purely experimental,
Is Just as likely to lie wrong rs right.
Had the General al ulcer on his arm the physi-
clans would have treated II scientifically, very sci.
Ell heaiy. lie might hay recovered or they mi yht
have ent his arm of Some dear old soul ofa grand
mother, however. mis hi rave treated the sore by
some cod .onan's remedy and healed ii, but there
would have been "proft sSonal science" in such
proceeding, As her remedy wsuli not be one rcog-
nlzed BY the code!
The Generals physicians excuse themselves, we
tod because the condition OF the throat was hid
dsn isom sight. There thousands Of cases where
dise6se Is hidden from sight, where the symptoms
are very obscure and conflicting. The physicians
viii treat cvGTyday's symptoms but they do not
C Yer they have made misiaks A horrible mis-.
take, The other day prominent merchant In
peighbOring city was found dead In bed. A post
mortem eI animation revealed the fact than one Of
his vital organs was entirely DIT cayed, and yet his
ply scianS had been treating him for heart disease
FORE one has bluudered.
Tor weeks the American public have been waiting
the unweleome tidipgs OF General Grants death.
To-day, the Generalis up and riding out.
People get well often in spite OF what their doc
tors say snd do. Why: By will power? No. By
They live because outside the medical profession
and medical pretense there are effective remedial
agencies In nature which, though ''unrecognizedn
by The code, have suplem power over disease, and
in thousands Of cases win triumphs where the 50
called scientific treatment utterly falls.
A prominent eS.cabinet officer is to-day on the
very edge OF the grave, suffering from an extreme
disorder OF the liver His doctors know thcy cannot
Hnre him. They simply are making dying comfor-
table.
The agony OF death In many cases Is read by sur.
rounding friends in screams OF pain, in convulsiens
of nerve in spasns Of torture-the fixed eve, the
chilly breath, the dreadful coughing, the bloody
sveat-tht supreme infections " pitiles, disease
upon helpless body,-indcate the limitations Q!
professional skill"
seyen-tenths OF the leaths in hi country every
year are ON hepat;c snd renal disorders which
physd rs have so little power. They will give this
that and TIE otter thing to make dying confer.
table, but they know they cannot cure aud yet they
viii not permit the use Of remedies "unauthorzel'
by their code, whether they are aopathlc or homeO
the year, has no tone, aud has tiItNl and de-
pressed feelings, the doctor will tell YOU that ae
blood needs purifying but he will not tell you what
he knows TO he 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 Grants
Gaze ought TO ave an eye-opening effect unon the
public. L ought TO see the iutiliy Of trusting en-.
tirely In profession whose practice Is so largely ex
Ierimenta. The test OF merit Is success aud when
any agency has won Tecorl pI owed by the tc.ti-
mony OF prominent men and women In all ranks OF
society il stands to reason that such preparation ls
worthy OF universal confidence. Who has not heard OF
it, Who gainfaT sta smcnt that Il has wrought
greater beRent Tor mankind than anything ever DIS.
covered inside the ranks ct the medical profession
And yet many physicians who are bound hand and
foot TO their code will not allow nor will they pre-
scribe Warmers safe cure. Nevertheless, spite OF
their sInamiEdsa bigotry, II multip'ieS instances
Of its singular merit 10y thousands every daV. rent
Sltidcd with the record il has won, AMI challenge.
comparison with The record -. the most reputable
physician.
il is a ter bc thing 20 lose our friends especial "
il We find out afterwards that they might have been
saved.
We are glad General Grant Is getting well. he
deserves live and in living he will cmphqsize The
Tact hat physicians 10 not have monopoly over
disease; that Scientific madeleine so ralcd il not
ipiaible; that all remedial agencies were not bonn
with doctors and will not die with them