Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26
FOUR ACTS PIAYEDi
Sad Report About Ex-PresIdsnt Arthur.
VIII the Fifth aud 4. nal Act be a Trn yedy

Eho REPORT ABOUT EN-fresiCent Arthurs
VIII the Fifth aud II nal Act be n Ira yedy
Rochester Democrat aud Chronicle
DIR. Lincoln, who was at the funeral of OK
Secretary Frelinghuysen, says x-Presideni
Arthur looked very unwelL lie is suffering
from Brghts disease. During the past yea
II has assumed a very aggravated form"
That telegram Is act ". Of a drama writ
ten by ex President Arthur's physicians II
Act !. he was made to appear in Malaria, ;
of which all the country was told when hf
went to Florida
In Act IL he represented tired man, worn
Town, walking the sand at Old Point Comfori
and looking eastward over tho Atlantic to
ward Europe tor a longer rest
The curtain rolls up for Act Ill upon the
distinguished actor affected with melancholy
from Brights disease, while Act ". discover
nim 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 drama,
oy play-wrights of the medical profession
They write the first two OF three acts with nc
conception of what their character will de
gelop in the final one
They have not the discernment for tracing
IN the early, what the latter Improvisation
will be- Not one physician in hundred ha.
the adequate microscopic ami chemical appli
ances for discovering Bright's disease in it:
prehend that their patients are dying with it.
when death occurs they will, to cover up theii
ignorance OF 1t, pronounce it to have beer
caused by ordinary ailments, whereas thest
ailments are really results of Bright's diseas,
Of which they are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, SO per cent. of all death
except from epidemics and accidents, result
from diseased kidneys or livers, If the dyin,
be distinguished and his friends too intelligen
20 be easily deceived, his physicians perhap
pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis
pyamia, septicamia, bronchitis, pleuritis
yalvular LESSONS of the heart, pneumonia etc
If the deceased be less noted, malaria" il
now the fashionable assignment of the caus
of DEATH
But all the same, named right or namet
wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in
While it prevails among persons OF sedentar,
habits-lawyers, clergymen, congressman
also plays great havoc among farmers, da,
laborers and the mechanics, though they d
not suspect it, because their physicians keel
it from them, if, indeed, they are able to de
tect it,
1t sweeps thousands OF women and childrel
into untimely graves every year. The healt
gives way gradually, the strength is varia
BILE, the appetite tickle, the vigor gets less an
less. This isn't malaria-it is the beginnin
OF kidney disease and will end-who. does no
know howl
No, nature has not been remiss. indie
pendent research he's given an infallibe rem
edy for this common disorder; but of cours
the bigoted physicians will not use Warner
safe cure, because it is a private affair an
cuts up their practice by restoring the healt
of those who have been invaiids for years.
The new saying of show common Bright
disease is becoming among prominent men
is getting old" and as the Englishman woul
say sounds Stupid especially stu d
since this disease is readily detected by tn
more learned men and specialists of tins dis
ease But the common run" of physician,
not detecting it, give the patient EPSON salt
or other drugs prescribed by the old code O
treatment under which their grandfather
and great grandfathers prescribed.
Anon, we hear that the patient is "comfort
able" But ere long, maybe, they tap hir
and take some water from him and agai
the comfortable" story is told. Tortul
MIN rather than allow him to use Warner.
safe curel With such variations the doctor
play upon the unfortunate until his shroud
Jade, when we learn that he died from hear
disease, pyRmia, septcRmia or some othe
decor tive, though 'dignifed cause"
Ex-President Arthurs case is not singuls
it is typical of every such case. "He
suffering intensely" This is not usual. Gel
orally there is almost no suffering lie ma
recover, if he will act Independently of h
physicians. The agency named has cure
thousands of persons even i'll the extrem
stages-is to-day the mainstay of the healt
of hundreds of thousands. 1t is an info
tunate fact that physicians will not adm
there is any virtue outside their own spher
but as each school denies virtue to all OF her
the people act on their own Judgment an
accept things by the record of merit the
make.
These facts are cause for alarm, but thel
is abundant hope in prompt and independer
| action.