The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-24
FOUR ACTS PLAYED.
SAD REPORT ABOUT EX-PRESI.
DENT ARTHUR.
VIII the Fifth and Final act BE a
Tragedy

Of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, says
ex-President Arthur looked very I'M
we'll. He is suffering from Bright's
disease. During the past year it has
assumed a very aggravated form.
Thattelegram is act ". of drama
written by ex-President Arthur's
physicians. In Act I. 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 sands
at Old Point Comfort, and looking
eastward over the Atlantic toward
Europe Tor a longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III.
upon the distinguished actor affected
with melancholy from Bright's dis
ease, while Act ". discovers him
with the disease in an aggravated
form, suffering intensely (Which is
Unusually, and about to take a sea
voyage"
Just such as this is the plot of
many dramas by plaS wrights of the
medical profession. They write the
first two or three acts with no con-
ception of what their character will
develop in the final one.
. They have not the discernment for
tracing in the early, what the latter
representations will be. Not one
physician in a hundred has the ade-
quate microscopic and chemical APP
pliances for discovering Bright's dis
ease in its early stages, and when
many do finally comprehend that
their patients are dying with it, when
death occurs, they will, to cover up
their ignorance of it, pronounce the
fatality to have been caused by ordi-
nary ailments, whereas these all
ments are really results OF Bright's
disease, of which they are uncon-
scious victims.
Beyond any doubt, eighty per cent.
of all deaths, except from epidemics
and accidents, result from diseased
kidneys or livers. If the dying be
distinguished, and his friends too
intelligent to be easily deceived, his
physicians perhaps pronounce the
complaint to be pericarditis, py@mia,
septic@mia, bronchitis, pleuritis, val
vular LESSONS of the heart, pueu-
monia, etc. If the deceased be less
noted, malaria " is now the fash
ionable 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
lawyers, clergymen, congressman
it also plays great havoc among
farmers, day laborers, and mechan-
les, 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 grad
ually, the strength is variable, 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 how ?
No, nature has not been remiss.
Independent research has given an
infallible remedy 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 restor-
ing the health of those VINO have
been invalids for years.
The new saying of chow common
Bright's disease is becoming among
prominent menl" is getting old, 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 disease. But the Common
run " of physicians. not detecting it,
give the patient EPSON Salts or other
drugs prescribed by the old code of
treatment under which their grand
fathers and great-grandfathers prac-
ticedl
Anon, we hear that the patient is
comfortable ;" but erelong, may be,
they tap" him and take some wa
ter from him, and again the COM
Portable" story is told. Torture him
rather than allow him to use War
ner's Safe Cure! With such varia-
tons the doctors play upon the I'M
fortunate until his shroud is made,
when we learn that he died from
heart disease, pyemia, septic@mia,
or some other deceptive though "dig-
nifed cause"
Ex-President Arthur's case is not
singular-it is typical of every such
case. He is suffering intensely"
This is not usual. Generally there
is almost no suffering. He may re-
cover, if 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 unfortunate
fact that physicians will not admit
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.
The facts are cause for alarm, but
there is abundant hope in promps
and independent action.-L Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.