The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-25
FOUR ACTS PLAYEDl
Sad Report About Ex-Presidsnt Arthur.
VIII tho Firth aud Final Act be- a Ira yedy

VIII tho Firth and Final Act be a Ira yedy
Rochester Democrat aud Chronicle.
.. "Dr. Lincoln. who was at the funeral OF ex
Secretary Frelinghuysen, says ex-Presideni
Arthur looked very unwell. He Is suffering
from Brights disease During the past yeai
II has assumed very aggravated form"
That telegram is act Nv. OF a drama writ
ten by OK President Arthur's physicians. II
Act |, he was made TO appear in Malaria
81 which all tho country was told when hs
went to Florida
In Act III, ho represented tired man, worn
down, walking the sand at Old Point Comfort
and looking eastward over the Atlantic to
ward Europe for longer rest.
The curtain rolls up for Act III, upon the
distinguished actor affected with melancholy
from Bright's disease, while Act w, discover
MIN with the disease Sin an aggravated form
suffering intensely (which Is unusuaD and
about to take sea voyage"
just such as this is the plot ofmany drama
oy play-wrights Of the medical profession
They write the first two or three acts with nc
conception OF what their character will dc
velop in the final one.
They have not the discernment for tracing
N the early, what the latter impersonationi
will be. Not one physician in a hundred hai
the adequate microscopic ami chemical eppli
ances for discovering Bright's disease In il,
early stages and when many do finally com
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 these
ailments are really results of Bright's disease
of which they are unconscious victims.
Beyond any doubt, 80 per cent of all deaths
except from epdemics and accidents result
from diseased kidneys or livers, II the dying
be distinguished and his friends too intelligent
to BIO easily deceived, his physicians perhaps
pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis
| pyamia, septicamia, bronchitis, pleuritis
II tho deceased BIO less noted, "malaran |.
now tho fashionable assignment of the Gauss
of death.
But all the same, named right or named
wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in
Whilo it prevails among persons of sedentary
habits-lawyers, clergymen, congressman
also plays great havoc among farmers, day
laborers and the mechanics though they dt
not suspect it, because their physicians keeK
it from them. if, indeed, they are able to do
tect it.
1t sweeps thousands of women and childre,
into untimely graves every year. The health
gives way gradually, the strength Is varia
BILE, the appetite tickle, the vigor gets less ant
less. This isn't maiara-it is the beginning
of kidney disease ard will end-who does mo-
Know howl
No, nature has not boon remiss indie
pendent research hes given an infallible rem
edy for this common disorder; but of cours
The bigoted physicians will not use Warner
safe cure, because it is a private affair ant
cuts up their practice by restoring tho heat!
of those who have been invalids for years.
The new saying Of show common Bright
disease is becoming among prominent men |!
IS getting old, " and as the Englishman would
say, sounds 'stupid"-especially "stuI d
since this disease is readily detected by tn
more learned men and specialists Of this dis
ease. But the common rum Of physicians
1ot detecting it, give the patient EPSON salt
Or other drugs prescribed by tho old code o
treatment under which their grandfather
and great grandfathers prescribed.
Anon, wo hear that tho PATIENTS "comfort
able" But ere long, maybe, they "tap' hin
and take somo water from him and agaii
the comfortable" story is told. Tortur
nim rather than allow him to use Warner
safe curel With such variations the doctor
play upon the unfortunate until his shroud j
.lade when we learn that he died from hear
disease, pynmia, septicemia or some othe
iecertivo, though dignifed cause"
Ex.Presidont Arthur's case is not singula
lit is typical of every such case "He
suffering intensely This is not usual. Ger
orally there is almost no suffering. lie ma
recover, if he will act independently Of hi
physicians. The agency named has cure
thousands of persons even in the extrem
stages-is to-day tho mainstay of the healtl
Of hundreds Of thousands. 1t is an unfol
,unate fact that physicians will not ADM
there is any virtue outside their own sphere
but as each school denies virtue to all other:
Tho people act on their own judgment an
accept things by tho record Of merit the
make.
These facts are cause for alarm, but ther
abundant hope in prompt and Independent
Action.