Delta chief., 1885-06-24
FOUR ACTS PLAYEDl
Sad Report About Ex.Presldent Arthur.
VIII the-Fif.h Final Act be Tragedy.
Rochester Democra, and Chroricie.

"Dr Lincoln who was Mt the funeral
"of cx-Secretary Frelinghuyfen, says"
"ex-Presdent Arthur looked very un-'
"well He is suffering from Bright'sN
''disease. During the past year it has
assumed very aggravated form
That telegram is act w. of drama
written by ex-President Arthur's ply
sicians. In Act I. he was made to ap-
pear in "Malaria," of which all tho
country was told when he went to Flor
ida.
In Act II. he represented n tired man.
worn down. walking tho sands at Old
Point Comfort and looking eastward
over the Atlantic toward Europe for
longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III. upon
the distinguished actor affected with
melancholy from brights disease. while
Act w. discovers HIM with the disease
''in an aggravated form. suffering in
tensely, (Which is Unusually and about
to take a sea voyage"
Just such as this is the plot of many
dramas by play-wrights o. the medical
profession. They write the first two or
three acts with no conception of wha,
their character will develop in the final
one
They have not the disccrnment for
tracing in the early, what the latter i'm
presentations will be. Not one physi-
clan in hundred has the adequate mi
croscopic and chemical appliances for
discovering brights disease in its early
stages, and when many do finally com
prehend that their patients are dying
with il, when death occurs, they will,to
cover up their ignorance Of it, pro-
L.( (,s l., Lan
DO ordinary ailments, whereas these
ailments are really results of br1ght-
disease Of which they are unconscious
victims.
Beyond any doubt, 50 per cent. ofall
deaths except from epidemics and ac-
cidents, result from diseased kidneys or
livers. II the dying be distinguished
and his friends too intelligent to be
easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint 10 be pericar.
ditis, pymmin, sep,icnmia, bronchitis.
pleuritis, valvular lesisns Of the heart.
pneumonia. etc. IL the deceased be less
noted, malaria is now tho fashionabl"
assignment of the cause Of death.
But all the same, named right or
named wrong. this fearful scourgc
gathers them in, While il prevails
among persons Of seden,ary habits
lawyers, clergymen, congressman, it
also plays great havoc among farmers.
day laborcrs and mechanics, though
they do not suspect 1t. because their
physicians keep it from them. If indeed
| they are able to dctest 1t.
II sweeps thousands OF women aud
children into untimely graves every
year. The health gives way gradually.
the strength is variable, the appetite
tickle. the vIgor less and less. This
isn't malaria-it is the beginning Of
kidney disease and will cnd-who does
not know howp
No, nature has not been rcmiss. In
dependent research has given an infalli-
BILE remedy for this common disorder;
but of course the bgoted physicians
will not use Warnnr's safe cure. bCCRus"
it is a private affair and cuts up their
practice by restoring the health OF those
who have been invalids for years.
The new saying of chow common
bright's disease Is becoming among
prominent mcnr' is getting old. and ~
the Englisbman would say. sounds
stupid stupid" since
| this disease is readily detected by the
most learned men and specialists Of
this disease. But the common run"
| of physicians, not detecting il, give III"
patient EPSON salts or rather drugs
prescribed by the old code OF treatment
under which their grAndfathors and
grcat.grandfathcrs praCticcd,
Anon, we hear that tho patient il
comfortable. But Gro long. may be.
they "tapn him and tako some water
from him and again the comfortable"
story is told. Torture him rather than
allow him 70 use Warmers safe cure
! With such variations tho doctors play
| upon the unfortunate until his shroud
is made, when we learn that he died
from heart disease, pymmia. scpticTmia
or some otheridcceptivo though "digni-
| fled cause"
Ex-Prcsident Arthur cnso is not
singular-it is typical Of every such
caso. He Is suffering intensely"
| This is not usual. Generally there is
almost no suffering. He may recover.
if ho will act independently OF his ply
siciaus. The agency named has cared
thousands of persons even in the cN-
treme stnges-is 10 day the malnstay OF
the health of hundreds OF thousands. 1t
is mn unfortunate fact that physicians
will not admit there is any virtue out
side their own sphere, but as each
school denies virtue to all others. tho
people act On their own judgment and
accept things by the record of merit
| they make.
The facts arc cause for alarm, but
there is abundant hope in prompt and
Independent action.