The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-05-08
The 9e,ltar.at.
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
Someone Has Rlundered &" Gan Il be
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"described, then his medical attend.
"anls will be expected 10 explain
"the reasons for one OF the most re-
''markable instances Of discrepancy
"ever recounted In the history OF
''medIcal practice"
The other day on eminent young
physician In the last stages OF con-
Sumption, unable longer to talk, called
for pen and paper and indIstlnctly
wrote thIs.advIce to his.physIcIans
"Make dying comfortable.
This seems 10 have been the sole
purpose OF General Grants attending
physicians. They were making dy.
ing comfortable, but they wero not
curing their patienL He amazes
them by getting better
The utter failure rightly to dag.
nose and properly to treat Gen. Grants
disorder was serious blunder, en-
phasizing what has 80 often been
said, that professional treatment, being
purely experimental, Is just as likely
TO TO wrong as right.
Had the general an ulcer on his
arm the physicians would have treat
ed II scientifically, very scientifically.
He might have recovered or they
might have cut his arm of. Some
dear old soul OF grandmother, how
ever, might have treated the sore by
some "old wopan's remedy" and
healed II, bnt there would have been
no "professional science" Ia such
proceeding, rs her remedy would not
be one recognized by the code
The generals physicians excuse
themselves, We are told, because the
condition of the throat was hidden
from sight. There are thousands OF
cases where disease Is hidden from
sight, where the symptoms,are very
obscure and. conflicting. The physi-
clans will treat evevydsy's symptoms
but they do not cure. and finally the
patient dies. Then they discover
they have made q mistakel A horri-
Bile mistake! The other day n prom
inent merchant IN neIghboring city
way found dead In bed. A post NOR
tenn examination revealed the fact
that one OF his ether vital organs was
entirely decayed and yet his physi.
clans had been treating him for heart
disease !!
Some one has Numbered.
For weeks the American public have
been waiting the unwelcome tidinga Of
General Grants death. To-day, the
general is up and around and riding
out.
People get we'll often in spite Of what
their doctors say and do. Why ! By
will power No. By faith I? No.
They live because outside the medi-
Cal profession 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
triumphs where the so called scientific
treatment utterly fails.
A prominent ex-cabinet officer il to-
day on the very edge of the grave, suf-
fering from an extreme disorder Of the
liver. His doctors know they cannot
care him. They simply are making dy-
ing comfortable.
The agony Of death in many cases Is
read 10y surrounding friends in screams
Of pain, in commissions Of nerve, in
spasms of torture-tho fixed eye, the
chilly breath, the dreadful coughing, the
bloody sweat-tho supreme infections
Of pitiless disease upon helpless body,
indicate the limitations Of profess
ional skill"
Seven.senths of the deaths Of this
country every year are from hspatic and
renal disorders, over which physicians
have 80 little power. They will give
this, that aud the other thing to make
dying comfortable, but they know
they cannot cue and yet they will not
permit the use of remedies "unauthor-
lied" ny their code, whether they are
allopathic or homeopathic. II the sys-
tenn, as is common at this time of the
year, has no tone, and one has tired
and depressed 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 be-
cause the liver and kidneys are not
performing their blood purifying func-
tions.
The failure of the physicians ia Gen.
Grants case ought to have an eye
opening effect upon the public. 1t
ought to see the futility Of trusting en-
tirely in a profession whose practice is
so largely experimental. The test of
merit is success and when any agency
has won record proved by the testi-
mony Of prominent men and women in
ell ranks of society, it stands to reason
that such preparation is worthy of