The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-26
FOUR ACTS PLAYED !
Sad Report About Ex-President Arthur.
VIII the Fifth md EInnI Act be n Tn gedy.

Snd Report About EN-Presfdent Arthur.
VIII the Fifth and Final Act be n Tragedy.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
"Dr. Lincoln, who was at the funeral of ex-
Secretary Frelinghuysen, says ex-President
Arthur looked very unwell. He is suffering
from Bright's disease. During the past year
1t has assumed a very aggravated FORM"
That telegram is act ". of a drama writ
ten by ex President Arthur's physicians. In
Act |. he was made to appear in 'Malaria,"
of which all the country was told when he
went to Florida.
In Act II. he represented a tired man, worn
down, walking the sand at Old Point Comfort
and looking eastward over the Atlantic to-
ward Europe for a longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III. upon the
distinguished actor affected with melancholy
from Bright's disease, while Act ". discovers
him with the disease sin an aggravated form,
suffering intensely (Which is unusuaD and
about to take a 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 the final one.
They have not the discernment for tracing
in the early, what the latter impersonations
will be. Not one physician in a hundred has
the adequate microscopic ana chemical appli-
ances for discovering Bright's disease in its
early stages, and when man do finally com
prehend that their patients are dying with it,
when death occurs they will. to cover up their
ignorance of it, pronounce it to have been
caused by ordinary ailments, whereas these
ailments are really results of Bright's disease
of which they are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, so per cent of all deaths
except from epidemics and accidents, result
from diseased kidneys or livcrs, If the dying
be distinguished and his friends too intelligent
to be easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis,
pyRmia, septic9mia, bronchitis, pleuritis,
v~alvular LESSONS of the heart, pneumonia, etc.
If the deceased be less noted, "malarian is
now the fashionable assignment 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 sedentary
habits-lawyeTs, clergymen, congressmen-it
also plays great havoc among farmers, day
laborers and the mechanics, though they do
not suspect it, because their physicians keep
it from them, if, indeed, they are able TO de-
tect it.
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 lessand
less. This isn't malaria-it is the beginning
of kidney disease and will end-who does not
know how?
No, nature has not been remiss. indie
pendent research has given an infallible REM
edy for this common disorder; but of course
the bigoted physicians will not use Warmers
safe cure, because it is a private affair and
cuts up their practice by restoring the health
of thosa who have been invalids for years.
The new saying Of chow common Bright's
disease is becoming among prominent men ~
is getting ole" and as the Englishman would
say, sounds 'stupid"-especially Stupid
since this disease is readily detected by the
more learned men and specialists of this dis
ease. 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 gr~eat-grandfathers prescribed.
Anon, we hear that the patient is "comfort-
able" But ere long, maybe, they "tap" him
and take some water from him and again
the comfortable" story is told. Torture
him rather than allow him to use Warmers
safe curel With such variations the doctors
play upon the unfortunate until his shroud is
made, when we learn that he died from heart
disease, pyiemia, septicpmia or some other
deceptive, though 'dignitied cause.n
Ex-President Arthur's case is not singular
it is typical of every such case. ''He is
suffering. intensely" This is not usual. Gen
orally there is almost no suffering. lie may
recover, il 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. 1t is an unfor-
there is any virtue outside their own sphere,
but as each school denies virtue to all others,
the people act 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.