Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-12
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The Fate that Ovsrcame "IittIe Mac
and Five Other Governors.

Apropos of the sudden death of Gen. Geo.
B. Mcclellan, we note that the New York
Sun points out the singular fact that Gov
ernor Dewitt Clinton, Governor Silas
Wright, Governor William l.. Marcy, Gov
ernor and Chief Justice Sanford L. Church,
and Governor r. L. Fenton, all of New
York State, dropped dead of heart disease,
and under quite identical circumstances
each of them dying while reading letter,
except Marcy, who was reading Cowpers
poems
Hold your hand against the ribs on your
lett side, front-the regular, steady beating
Of the great " force pump" of the system,
run by an unknown and mysterious En-
gineer, 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 if it should skip beat p
As matter of fact the heart is the least
susceptible to primary disease of any of our
vital organs. 1t is, however, very much in
jured by certain long-continued congestions
of the vital organs, like the kidneys, liver
and stomach. Moreover, blood filled with
uric acid produces a rheumatic tendency
and is very injurious to healthful heart ac-
ton. 1t 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 it is an easy task. If they are at
all diseased, it is 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 COM
plete destruction of the kidneys, the extra
work forced upon the heart weakens it
every year, and a" mysterious sudden
death claims another victim
This is the true history of " heart DIS
ease, so called, which in reality is chiefly
a secondary effect of Brights disease of the
kidneys, and indicates the universal need OF
that renowned specific Warmers safe cure.
B. f. Larrabee, Esq, of Boston, who was
by it SO wonderfully cured of Brights dis
ease, in 1879, says that with its disappear
ance went the distressing heart disorder,
which he then discovered was only second
airy to the renal trouble.
There is a general impression that the
medical profession is not at faultif it 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 no help for broken down,
worn out, apoplectic heart, but there is a
help for the disorder which in most cases
is responsible for the heart trouble, and if
its use put money and fame into the treas
ury of the profession instead of into the
hands Of an Independent investigator, every
graduated doctor in the world would eX-
claim of it, as one, nobler and less preiu-
diced than his fellows, once exclaimed a:
" 1t is God.send to humanity"
What, therefore, must be the public es-
innate of that bigotry and want of frank
ness which forbid5 in such cases because
fOrsooth, it is a proprietary article), the use
'of the one effective remedial agency OF the
age?
Heart disease" indeed Why not call
such things by their right names?
Why not?
Dead without moments warning"
This likewise is an untruth Warnings are
given by the thousand. Physicians are
mot surprised" They expected it r'
They know what the end will be, but the
victi m? - oh, no he mustn't be told, you
know; it would only frighten him, for
there is no help, you know, for it ~
The fate that attended ." Little Mac" and
the five governors is not a royal and eXclu-
sive One-it threatens every one who fails
to heed the warnings of nature as set forth
above