The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-11-14
I" DROPPED DEAD"
The Fate That Overcamo Little Mao" and
Five Other Governors.

me rate That Overcalno "Ltttle Mao" and
Five Other Governors.
Apropos Of the sudden death Of General
George B. Mcclellan, We note that the
New York Sun points out the singular
fact that Governor Dewitt Clinton, Gov
ernor Silas Wright, Governor William L.
Marcy, Governor and Chief Justice San
ford e. Church, and Governor X. Il. Fen
ton, all of New York State, dropped dead
of heart disease, and under quite identical
circuanst dnceS-edch of them dying Whae
reading a letter except Marcy, who was pc.
rusing Cowper's poems!
Hold your hand against the ribs on your
left side, front,-the regular steady beat
ing of the great force pump" Of the sys-
TEN, run by an unknown and mysterious
Engineer, is awful in its impressiveness
Few persons like to count their own
pulse beats, and fewer persons still enjoy
marking the "thub-thub" of their own
heart.
What i ii should skip beat"
AS q matter Of fact the heart is the least
susceptible to primary disease of any of
our vital organs. 1t is, however, very
much injured by certain long continued
kidneys, liver and stomach. Moreover,
blood filled with uric acid produces a
rheumatic tendency, and is very injurious
to healthful heart action-it often proves
fatal, and, of course, the uric acid comes
from impaired kidney action.
Roberts, the great English authority,
says that heart disease is chiefly secondary
to some more fatal malady in the blood or
other vital organs. That is, it is not the
original source Of the fatal malady.
The work of the heart is to force blood
into every part of the system. If the
organs are sound 1t is an easy task. Ii
they are at ali diseased, it is a very, very
hard task. Take as an illustration: The
| kidneys are very subject to congestion
and yet, being deficient in the nerves Of
sensation, this congested condition is not
indicated by pain. 1t may exist for years,
unknown even to physicians, and if it does
not result in complete destruction of the
| kidneys, the extra work which is forced
upon The heart weakens it every year, and
"a mysterious" sudden death claims
another victim!
This is the true history of "heartd isease,"
so called, which in reality is chiefly, a
| secondary effect of Brght's disease Of the
kidneys, and indicates the universal need
of that renowned specific, Warmers safe
cure.
b. F. narrabee, Esq, of Boston, who
was by it so wonderfully cured of Bright's
disease, in 1879, says that with its disap-
pearance went the distressing heart dis
order, which he then discovered was only
secondary to the renal trouble.
There is a general impression that the
medical profession is not at fault il il
frankly admits that heart disease is the
cause of death. In other words, cure OF
heart disease is not expected of them!
There may be 10 help for a broken
down, worn out, apoplectic heart, but
there is help for the kidney disorder
which in most cases is responsible for the
heart trouble, and if it's use put money and
fame into the treasury of the profession
instead of into the hands of an ipdepen.
dent investigator, every graduated doctor
in the world would exclaim of it, as one
nobler and less prejudiced than his fellows
once exclaimed: at is God-send to hu
manity !"
What therefore must be the public esti
mate of that bigotry and want of frank
ness which forbids in such cases (becaus'
forsooth it is proprietary article), the us'
of the one effective remedial agency of tn
age? :,
such things by their right names?
Why not?
"Dead without moments warning"
This likewise is an untruth! Warning
are given by the thousand. PHYSICIAN
are "uot surprised" They "expecte'
itw They know what the end will be, bu
the victim?-" oh no, he mustn't be told
you know, it would only frighten him, TO
there is no help, you know, for it"
The fate that attended Little Mac" an
the five governors is not a royal and ex
elusive one--it threatens every one VIII
fails tc heed the warnings of nature as Sc
forth above.