Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-22
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
Someone Has Blundered!'-Can it be
Possible


eral Grant should recover from 4 disease
which should prove not TO have been what
il has been described, then his medical at
tcndants will be expected 10
explain the reasons for one Of the most re-
| markable instances Of discrepancy ever re-
counted in the history OF medical prac-
| tee"
The other day an eminent young physi-
| elan in the last stages of consumption, I'M
able longer to talk, called for pen and pa
per and indistinctly wrote this advice to
| his physicians " Make dying comfort
able
| This seems to have been the sole pulr-
pose of General Grants attending physi-
clans. They were making dying comfort
aDIe. 6ut they were not curing their pa
tient. He amazes them by getting better
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
| treatment. 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 ii scientific
! allv. very scientifically. He might have
recovered or they might have cut his arm
off. Some dear old soul of a grandmother,
however, might have treated the sore by
some old woman's remedy" and healed
| il. but there would have been no "prOfcS
siOnal science in such proceeding, as
her remedy would not be one recognized
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 hid
den from sight, where the symptoms are
very obscure and conflicting. The physi-
clans viii treat every days symptoms, but
they do not cure and finally the patient
dies Then they discover they have made
a mistake 4 horrible mistake, The other
dav a prominent merchant in 4 neighbor-
Ing city was found dead in bed. y post
norton examination revealed the fact that
one Of his other vital organs was entirely
decayed, and yet his physician had been
treating him for heart disease.
Some one has Numbered
For weeks the American public have
been waiting the Unwelcome tidings OF
General Grants death. To-day, the General
is up and around and riding out.
People get wc4 often in spite of what
their doctors say and do. Why BY will
power? No By faith? No.
They live because outside the medical pro
fessim and medical pretense there are el-
frctiye remedial agencies in nature which
though ''unrecoEniZcd' by the code, have
supreme power over disease, and in thou
sands of cases win triumphs where the so
called scientific treatment utterly fails.
\ prominent cx-Cabinet officer is to-day
on the very edge of the grave suliern.
from an extreme disorder of the liver. Hi
doctors know they cannot cure him. They
simply are making dying comfortable.
The agony of death in many cases IS reat
by surrounding friends in screams OF pain
., of
ture-the fixed eve. the chilly breath, tn,
dreadful coughing, the bloody sweat-th
| supreme infections Of pitiless disease upoi
helpless body-indicatc the limitations o
professional skill.
Seven-tenths of the deaths of this coun
Try every year are from hepatic and rena
disorders, over which physicians have St
. little power They will give this, that ant
the other thing TO make dying comfortable
, but they know they cannot cure, and We
they viii not permit the Use OF rcmedle
unauthorized by their code, whcthe
they are allopathiC or homeopathic. II III
! 81 stem, as is common at this time of tn
A wear has no tone, and one has tired ant
e depressed feelings the doctor Will tell yol
= that the blood needs purifying, but lie vii
not tell you what he knows 10 be true, tina
\ the blood is impure because the liver ant
c kidneys are not performing their blood
purifying functions.
The failure of the physicians III Genera
a Grants ease ought to have an cyc-opcnin
{ effect upon the public. 1t ought to see III
g futilitv of trusting entirely to a profession
e whose practice is 50 largely experimental
q The test of merit is success and when an,
agency has won a record proved by the ties
t tmony Of prominent men and women il
# all ranks OF society, il stand. TO reason tina
1 such a preparation is worthy Of universe
d confidence. Who has not heard OF ii
Y Who las not used it, Who can gainSa
i the statement that ii has wrought create
g benefit for mankind than anything eve
q discovered inside the ranks OF the medics
Profession And Yet many physician
4 who are bound hand and foot 10 their cod
will not allow nor will they prescribe til
Il use of Warmers safe cure, Nevertheless
o. spite Of their smaii-minded bigotry, il mu
q, tiplicS instances of its singular merit b
Thousands every day. rests satisfied wit
the record il has Won and challenges con
parison with the record of the most repr
liable physician.
/, is terrible thing TO lose orr friend
3" especially if we find out Gtter'cqrds th'
i they might have been saved.
We are clad General Grant IS gettir
we'll. lie deserves % live, and in living /
will emphasize the fact that the physician
i do not have 4 monopoly over disease; thi
scientific medicine 50 called, is not il
fallible: that all remedial agencies We
: not born with doctors and will not die wit
than,