Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-06-26
A SINGULAR BOOK.


sclntiiiating with saroasm and Brilliant
with Truth.
Nov York Correspondence American Rural
Home.1
Chap. /. "Has Malaria;" goes to Flor
ida.
Chap. II. "overworked;" goes to Eu-
rope.
Ems.
Chap. ". Has row with his Doctor
The above chapters, Mr.. Editor, find In
book recently published by an anony-
nous author. have read q deal of sar-
casm in my day, but l mover. read any
thing equal to the sarcasm herein con.
tained. suspect the experience portrayed
is personal one; in short, the author in-
Inmates as much on page 3l. Let me give
you a synopsis:
6MaiSria,O as it states, is the cloak with
which superficial physicians cover up
multitude ofill feelings which they do not
understand, and do not much care to fnves-
tigate. 1t is also cover for such diseases
as they cannot cure. When they advise
their patient to travel or that he has
overworked and needs rest and is
probably suffering from malaria, 1T is
confession of ignorance or Of inability.
The patient goes abroad. The change is n
tonic and for timo he feels better. Comes
home. Fickle appetite, frequent head
irritability, tired feelings, and general un-
fitness for business are succeeded in due
time by alarming attacks of rheumatism
which fit about his body regardless of all
human feeling.
It is muscuiar,-in his back Articular,
lin his joints. Inflammatory, my how
he fears it will fly to his hearth Now Off
he goes to the springs. The doctor sends
him there, of course, to get well; ut the
same time. he does not really want him to
die on his handsl
That would hurt his businessl
Better for few days. Returns. After
while neuralgia transfixes him. He
bloats; can not breathe; has pneumonia;
can not walk; can not sleep on his left
side; is fretful; very nervous and irrita-
and fevers; everything about him seems
to go wrong; becomes suspicious; musters
up strength and demands to know what is
killing himl
"Great heaven" he cries, "why have
you kept me SO long in ignorancsp"
Because" said the doctor, 81 read your
fate five years ago. l thought best to keep
you comfortable and ignorant of the facts. u
He dismisses the doctor, but too late
His fortune has all gone to fees.
But him, what becomes of himp
The other day well-known Wall street
banker said to me sit is really astonishing
how general bright's disease is becoming.
| Two of my personal friends are now dying
of it. But it is not incurable am certain,
for my nephew was recently cured when
his hysicians said recovery was impossi-
| BILE. The case seems to me to be won
derful one." This gentleman formerly
represented his government in n foreign
| country. He knows, appreciates and de-
| clares the value of that preparation, be-
cause his nephew, who is son of Danish
Vice. Consul Schmidt, was pronounced in
durable when the remedy, Warmers safe
81 was very skeptical, but since taking
that remedy the boy is we'll"
/ regret to note that ex-President Ar.
| thur is said to be victim of this terribl,
disease. He ought to live, but the proba'
| bilities are that since authorized remedie,
can not cure him, his physicians will no
advise him to save his life, as SO many
ner's safe cure, which Gen. Christensen
at Drexel, Morgan & Co.'s, told me he re.
| garded "as wonderful remedy"
| Well, suspect the hero of the bool
cured himself by the same means. The in
ternal evidence points very strongly tt
this conclusion.
can not close my notice of this bool
readers:
"If my friend, you have such an expe
rience as l have portrayed, do not pu
your trust in physicians to the exclusion
Of other remedial agencies. They hav,
no monopoly over disease and personally
scientious' that they would far prefer tina
their patients should go to Heaven direc
from their powerless hands than that they
should be saved to earth by the use of any
unauthorized means"
And that the authors condemnation i.
too true, how many thousands duped, ant
yet rescued, as he was, can personally tes