Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-13
FOUR ACTS PLAYEDl
Sad Report About Ex-President Ar
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WIN the Fifth and Final Act be q Tragedy?
Rochester DeEocruf and Chronicle,
"Dr. Lircoln, who was at the funeral Of"
"ex-Secreisry Freinghuysen, says EXPIRES"
''ident Ar tur looked very unwslL he is
suffering rom Bright's disease. During
the past year it has assumed very aggra-"
waited form"
That telegram is act w. of q drama
written by ex-President Arthur's physicians.
In Act l. be was made to appear in ma
lara" Of which all the country was told
when he went to Florida.
In Act Ii. he represented a tired man,
worn down, walking the sands at Old Point
Comfort and looking eastward over the At
lantic toward Europe for longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act Ill. upon the
distinguished actor affected with melsuch1l-
ly from bright's disease, while Act ~. dis
covered him with the disease ''in an aggrs.
waited form, suffering intensely, (Which Is
unusual and about to take sea voyage.
Just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by play-wrights of the medical pro.
fession. They white the first two or three
acts with no conception of what their char.
scter will develop in the final one.
They have not the discernment for tracing
in the early, what the latter impersonstions
will be. Not one physician in hundred
has the adequate microscopic and chemical
appliances for discovering bright's disease
in its early stages and when many do finally
comprehend that their patients are dying
with it, when death occurs, they will, tC
cover up their ignorance of it, pronounce
the fatality to have been caused by ordinary
ailments, whereas these ailments are really
results of brights disease Of which they arr
unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt so per cent, OF al
death except from epidemics and soidents.
result from diseased kidneys or livers. Il
the dying be distinguished and his friend
too intelligent to be easily deceived, his ply
siciaDs perhaps pronounce the complaint t.
ne pericarditis. pyamia, septicemia, brou
chitis pleuritis, valvular LESSONS OF the heart
pneumonia etc. If the deceased be les
noted, malaria is now the fashionable as
Segment of the cause Of death.
But all the same, named right or named
wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in
While it prevails among persons Of seden'
rary habits-lAwyers, clergymen, Congress
men,-it also plays great havoc among
farmers, day lsborers and mechanics, though
hey do not suspect it, because their physl
clans keep it from them, if indeed they are
able to detect it.
1t sweeps thousands Of women and chill
dren into untimely graves every year. The
health gives way gradually, the strength Ii
variable, the appetite tickle, the vigor get.
less and less. This isn't malaria-it is tht
beginning of kidney disease and will end
who does not know how?
No, uature has lot been remiss. Ind
pendent research has given an infallibi'
emedy for this common disorder; but
.ourse the bigoted physicians will not us.
Warmers safe cure because it is privat'
fair and cuts up their practice by restorinl
or years.
The new SAYING Of chow common bright,
disease is becoming among pronlnen
men!" is getting old, and as the English
man would say, sounds stupid '-especiali
stupid" since this disease is readily de-
tected by the more learned men and specis
ists of this disease. But the "commor
run" Of physicians, not detecting it, gil
the patient EPSON salts or other drug.
prescribed by the old code of treatment Ill
der which their grandfathers and great
grandfathers practiced
Anon, we hear the patient. is comfort.
able" But ere long, maybe, they tap
him and take some water from him an
again the comfortable" story is told. Tor
ture him rather than allow him to use War
ner's safe cure! With such variations tn
doctors play upon the unfortunate until hi
shroud Is made, when we learn that he die"
from heart disease, pygmia, sepdcenia
some other deceptive though "dignihec
cause"
Ex.President Arthur's case is not singulai
it is typical of every such case, He i.
suffering intensely" This is not usual
Generally there is almost no suffering. b
nay recover, if he will act independently o
lis physicians. The agency named ha'
cured thousands of persons even in the ex
treme stages-is to-day the mainstay OF tn
leslth Of hundreds OF thousands. 1t is a.
unfortunate fact that physicians will no.
admit there is any virtue outside their owl
sphere, but as each school denies virtue tc
all others, the people act on their own jqdg
nent and accept things by the record O.
merit they make.
The facts are cause for alarm, but Their
abundant hope in prompt and iudepend
mt action.