Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-06-15
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Sad Repars Aboef IKE PrenIaena ArehuF.
WIN tie Eanh mma ElMnl Act - = IEmmedgs
Rochester DsniOcrat AID CAr0nfcte
"Dr. lincoln. who was ae the funeral o. ex-
Secretary Frelinghuyssn. says ex-Presidept
Arthur looked very unwell de Ii suffering
from B1ghts disease During the past year
C has assumed very aggravated FORM
That telegram Is act ~. of drama writ
ten By az President Arfhurss physicians In
Act L he was made 70 appear Ia Malaria,
o. which all the country was told when he
went g Florida
In Act IL he represented tired man worn
down. walking the sand at Old Point Comfort
and looking eastward over the Atlantic to-
ward Europe for longer rest
HE curtain rolls up for Att III. upon tho
distinguished actor affected with melancholy
from Brights disease, while Act ~. discovers
him with the disease Ain an aggravated form,
suffering intensely (which Is unusual and
about % take q sea voyage
just such as this is the plot ofmany dramas
by play-wrights Of the medical profession.
They write the first two or three acts with no
conception Of what their character will de-
velop in tho final one
They have not the disccrnmenf for tracing
in the early, what the latter representation
the adequate microscopic AMI chemical arpli-
ances for discovering Bright's disease in It's
early stages. and when many do finally COM
prehend that their patients are dying with it,
when death occurs they win, 20 cover mp their
ignorance OF tt, pronounce it 20 have bcen
caused by ordinary ailments, whereas these
ailments are really results OF Bright's disease
IT which they are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, 20 per cent. Of all deaths
except from epideInics and accidents result
/ from diseased Kidneys or livers. II the dying
be distinguished and his friends too intelligent
70 be easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis,
| pyRmia, septicRnlia, bronchitis. pleurits
| valvuiaF LESSONS OF the heart, pneumonia etc
Ii the deceased be less noted, s'malaria'' is
now the fashionable assignment of the cause
pf death.
But all the same, named right or named
wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in
While It prevails among persons OF sedentary
habits lawyers, clergymen. congressman
also plays great havoc among farmers, day
laborers and the mechanics, though they do
not suspect It, because their physicians keep
i from thems If, indeed, they are able to de-
tect Il.
1t sweeps thousands OF women and children
into untimely graves every year. The health
gives way gradually, the strength Is varia-
bic, the appetite tickle. the vigor gets less and
less This isn't malaria--it is the beginning
Of kidney disease and will end-who does not
know howl
No, nature has not been remiss. indie
pendent research has given an infallible rem-i
edy for this common disorder; but of course
safe cure, because il Is a private affair and
cuts up their practice by restoring the health
Of those who have been invaiids for years.
The new saying OF "how common Brights
disease Is becoming among prominent men ~
is getting old, )" and as the Englshman would
say, sounds stupid especially stupid
since this disease is readily detected by the
more learned men and specialists of this dis.
ensc. But the common rum of physicians
not detecting it, give the patient EPSON salts
or other drugs prescribed by the old code Of
treatment under which their grandfathers
and great-grandfathers prescribed
Anon, we hear that the patient is comfort
able" But ere long. maybe, they tap him
md take some water from him and again
the comfortable story is told. Torture
him rather than allow him to use Warmers
safe cureI With such variations the doctors
play upon the unfortunate until his shroud is
made, when we learn that he died from heart
disease pyRmia septicueInia OF some other
deceptive, though stiignified cause"
x-President Arthurs case Is not singular
lit is typical of every such case. He Is
suffering intensely" This Is not usual. Gem
orally there 4 almost no SUFFERING 10 NAV
recover, II he will act independently of his
physicians. The agency named has cured
thousands of persons even in the extreme
stages-is to-day the mainstay OF the health
Of hundreds OF thousands lE Is an unfor-
tunate fact that physicians win not admit
thereis any virtue outside their own sphere
but as each school denies virtue to all others,
the people at on their own judgment and
accept things by the record Of merit they
make.
These facts are cause for alarm. but there
is abundant hope in prompt and independent
action.