The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-05-09
GENERAL GRANTS CASE,
"SOmeone Has Blundered Can 1t Be
Possible?


The New York Herald says: eff Gen
"eral Grant should recover from dis
ease which should prove not to have
been what it has been described, then
his medical attendants will be
expected to explain the reasons for one
of the most remarkable instances of
discrepancy ever recounted in the his
tory Of medical practice"
The other day an eminent young ply
stefan in the last stages of consumption.
unable longer to talk, called for pen and
paper and instinctly wrote this advice to
his physicians: Make dying comforta-
| ble.''
This seems to have been the sole pur-
pose of General Grants attending physi-
clans. They were making dying COM
Portable, but they were not curing their
patient He amazes them by getting
BETTER!
The utter failure rightly to diagnose
aud properly to treat General Grants
disorder was serious blunder, empha-
sizing what has so often been said, that
professional treatment, being purely ex-
perimental, is just as likely to be wrong
as right.
Had the General an ulcer on his arm
the physicians would have treated it sci
entitically, very scientifically. He might
have recovered or they might have cut
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grandmother, however, mi!ht have
treated the sore by some cold woman's
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 them
selves, we are told, because the condition
of the throat was hidden from sight.
There are thousands of cases where dis
ease is hidden from sight, where the
symptoms are very obscure and conflict
ing. The physicians will treat every
days symptoms, but they do not cure,
and finally the patient dies. Then they
discover they have made a mistake.
horrible mistake! The other day prom
inent merchant in neighborlng city was
found dead in bed. A post norton ex-
animation revealed the fact that one of
his other vital organs was entirely de-
cayed, and yet his physicians had been
treating him for heart disease!
Some one has Numbered.
For weeks the American public have
been waiting the unwelcoms tidings of
General Grants death. To day the Gen
eral is up and around and riding out.
People get we'll often, in spite of what
tEeir doctors say and do. Why? By will
power No. By faith ? No.
They live because outside the medical
profussion 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 trumphs
where the so-called scientific treatment
utterly fails.
A prominent ex- Cabinet officer is to-
day on the very edge of the grave, suffer-
| ing from an extreme disorder of the
liver. His doctors know they cannot
cure him. They simply are making dy-
ing comfortable.
The agony of death in many cases is
read by surrounding friends in screams
of pain, in commissions of nerve, in
spasms of torture-the fixed eye, the
chilly breath, the dreadful coughing, the
bloody sweat-the supreme intlictions of
pitiless disease upon helpless body
indicate the limitations of professional
skill"
Seven-tenthS of the deaths of this
country every year are from hepatic and
renal disorders, 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
use of remedies unauthorized" by their
code, whether they are allopathic or
homeopathic. If the system, as is COM
mon at this time of the year, has no
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
purifying functions.
The failure of the physicians in Gen
eral Grants case ought to have an eye
opering effect upon the pnblic. 1t ought
to see the fntlity of trusting entire'y in
a profession whose practice is SO largely
experimental. The test of merit is sue
cess, and when any agency has won a
record proved by the testimony of prom
inent men and women in all ranks of
society. it stands to reason that such a
preparation is worthy of universal conf
dence. Who has not heard of it? Who has
not used it? Who has notgainsay the state
ment that 1t has wrought greater benefit
for mankind than anything ever discov-
cred inside the ranks of the medical pro-
fession? 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. Neverthe-
less, spite of their small minded bigotry,
it multiplies instances of its singular
merit by thousands every day, rests sat
iStied with the record it has won, and
challenges comparison with the record OF
the most reputable physicians.
1t is Il terrible thing to lose our friends,
if We find aftcrnards that they
might have been saved
We ale glad General Grant is getting
well. He deserves to live. and in living
he will emphasize the fact that phys-
Clans do not have a monopoly over dis
ease; that scientific medicine" So
called, is not infallible; that all remedial
agencies were not born with doctors and
will not die with them.
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Heart Pains.
Palpitations, Dropscal Swellngs, Dizziness