The National tribune., 1885-04-30
GEN. GRANTS CASE.
"someone Has Bluudered ga, II be Poss,b

GEN. GRANTS CASE.
"Someone Has Numbered Gan it be Possible
The New York Herald saws: off Gen. Grant
should recover from disease which should
prove not to have been what it has been de-
"scribed. then his medical attendants
will be expected to explain the reasons for
zone of the most remarkable instances of dis
"crepaDcy ever reeOunted in the history of
medical practice"
The other day an eminent young physician
In the last stages OF consumption, unable longer
to talk, called for pen and paper and indistinctIy
wrote this advice to his physicians: Make
dying comfortable"
This seems to have been the sole purpose Of
Gen. Grants attending physicians. They were
making dying comfortable, but they were not
curing their patient. Tie amazes them by get
ting better!i
The utter failure rightly to diagnose and
properly to treat Gen. 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 it scientifically,
very scientifically. He might have recovered
or they might have cut his arm of. Some dear
old soul OF a grandmother however, might have
treated the sore by some " old womans remedy
and healed it. but there would have been no
professional science" in such proceeding, as
her remedy would not be one recognized by the
code!
The Generals physicians excuse themselves.
we are told, because the condition of the throat
was hidden from sight. There are thousands
OF cases where disease is hidden from sight
where the symptoms are very obscure and con-
hlcting. The physicians will treat everyday's
symptoms, but they do not cure, and finally
the patient dies. Then they discover thew
a 10 10 hi
The other day prominent merchant in a
nelghboring city was found dead in bed. A
post mortem examination revealed the fact that
one of his other vital organs was entirely de-
cayed, and yet his physicians had been treating
him for heart diseased
Some one has blundered.
For weeks the American public have been
waiting the unwelcome tidings of Gen. Grants
death. To-day, the General is up and around
and riding out
People get well 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-
fession and medical pretense there are effective
remedial agencies in nature which, though
"unrecOgnized" by the code, have supreme
power over disease, and in thousands of cases
win triumphS where the so-called scientific
treatment utterly fails.
A prominent ex-cabinet officer is to-day on
the very edge of the grave, suffering from an
extreme disorder of the liver. His doctors
know they cannot cure him. They simply are
making dying comfortable.
The agony of death in many cases is read by
surrounding friends in screams of pain, in con-
vulsiOns of nerve, in spasms OF torture-the
fixed eye, the chilly breath, the dreadful cough
ing, the bloody sweat-the supreme infections
Of pitiless disease upon helpless body,-indi-
cate the limitations of professional skill.
SpVpn- tpUtbs of the deaths of this nfruy
every year are from hepatic and renal disOr-
ders, over which physicians have so little power.
They will give this, that and the other thing
to make dying comfortable, but they know
they cannot cure and yet they will not permit
the of remedies unauthorized" by their
code, whether they aliOpathc or hOmeo-
pathic. If the system, as is common at this
time of the year, has no tone, and one has
tired and depressed feelings, the doctor will tell
you that the blood needs purifying but he will
not tell You, what he knows TO be true, that
the blood is impure because the liver and kid
neys are not performing their blOod-purifying
functions
The failure of the physicians in Gen. Grants
case ought to have an eye-opening effect upon
the public. 1t ought to see the futility Of trust
ing entirely in a profession whose practice is
so largely experimental. The test OF merit Is
success and when any agency has won record
proved by the testimony of prominent men
anu women IN all ranks society, 1t STANDS 10
reason that such a preparation is worthy of
universal confidence. Who has not heard of it?
Who has not used it? Who can gainsay the
statement that it has wrought greater benefit
for mankind than anything ever discovered
inside the ranks of the medical profession
And yet many physicians who are bound hand
and foot to their code will not allow nor will
they prescribe the use of Warmers safe cure.
Nevertheless. spite of their small-minded big
otry, it multiplies instances of its singular
merit by thousands every day. rests satisfied
with the record it has won, and challenges COM
parison with the record of the most reputable
physician.
1t is terrible thing to lose our friends, espe-
cially if we find out afterwards that they might
have been saved
We are glad Gen. Grant is getting well. He
deserves TO live and in living he will empha-
size the fact that physicians do not have q mo-
nopoly over disease that " scientific medicine"
o-called, is not infallible; that all remedial
agencies were not born with doctors and will
not die with them.