The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-04-29
GENERAL GRANTS CASE.
Someone Ha BlnndersdP'-Can IL be
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The New York Herald says: ''If General
Grant should recover from a disease which
should prove not to have been what it has
been described, then his medical attendants
will be expected to explain the rea
sons for one of the most remarkable in
stances of discrepancy ever recountsd in the
history of medical practice"
The other day an eminent young physi.
clan, in the last stages OF consumption, IN
able longer to talk called for pen and paper
and indistinctly wrote this advice to his ply.
sIcisns: Make dying comfortable"
This seems to have been the sole purpose
OF General Grants attending physicians
They were making dying comfortable, but
they were not curing their patient. He
amszes them by getting better
The utter failure rightly to diagnose and
properly to treat General Grants disorder
was q serious blunder emphasizing what
has SO often been said, that professional
treatment, being purely experimental, is
just as likely to be wrong as right
Had the General an ulcer on his arm the
physicians would have treated it scientific
ally. very scientifically. BE might have re.
covered. or they might have cut mis- arm OF.
Some dear old soul of a grandmother, how
ever, nigh! have treated the sore by some
''old woman remedy and healed ii. but
there would have been no 'professio nal set
eIce" in such proceeding, as her tidy
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. Tnen
are thousands CT cases where disease is hid
den from sight where the symptoms are
very obscure and conflicting. The pbysi-
clans will treat eysrydsy's symptoms. but
they do not cure, and finally the patient
dies. Then they discover they have made
mistake A horrible mistake The other
day prominent merchant in a neighboring
city was found dead in bad. post-mortem
investigation revealed the fact that one Of
his other vital organs was entirely decayed
and yet mis- physicians had been treating him
for heart diseased
Some one has blundered.
For weeks the American public have been
waiting the unwelcome tIdings of General
Grants death. To-day, the General is up
and around and riding out.
People get well often in spite of what their
doctors say and do. Why? By will power?
No By iaith2 No.
They live because outside the medical pro-
fession and medical pretense there are eff
feclivs remedial agencies in nature which,
though 'unrecognizeo" by the code. have su-
preme poe er over disease, and in thousands
Of csses win triumphs where the so called
scientific treatment utterly fails
a prominent ex-Cabinet officer is - day
on the very edge Of the grave, suffering from
an extreme disorder OF the liver. His doc
\ tors know they can not cure him. They SIM
/ ply are making dying comfortable.
/ The agony OF death in many cases is read
| by surrounding friends in screams OF pain, in
rrr1 xyTlto ions nj in Qf fOrfn
the fixed eye, the chilly breath, the dread.
| full coughing, the bloody sweat-the sn-
| preme infections of pitiless disease upon q
/ helpless body-indicaie the limitations of
| professional skill"
Ssven-tenths of the deaths of this country
| dere, oyer which phyGicians have 80 little
! power. They will give this. that and the
other thing to make dying comfortable, but
! they know they can not cure and yet they
| will not permit the use of remedies ''unau-
| thorized' by their code, whether they are
! allopathic or homeopathic Ii the system,
| as is common at this time of the year, has no
| tone and one has tired and depressed teel.
| inss, 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 kidneys are not
performing their blood purifying functions.
/ The failure OF the physicians in General
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| effect upon the public. 1t ought to see the
| futiliiy Of trusting entirely in profession
4 whose practice is so largely experimental.
The test OF merit ia success, and when
any sgency has won record proved By
the testimony OF prominent men and
women in ell ranks of society, it stands to
reason that such q preparation is worthy OF
universal confidence. Who has not heard
of it, Who has not used it2 Who can gain
say the statement that it has wrought great
er benefit for mankind than any thing ever
discovered inside the ranks OF the med cal
| profession2 And yet many physicians who
are bound hand and foot to their code will
not slow nor will they prescribe the use of
| Warmers safe cure Nevertheless; spite of
| their small minded bigotry, it multiplies in
/ stances of its singular merit by thousands
every day, rests satisfied with the record it
| hiss won, and challenges comparison with
! the record OF the most reputable physician.
| Ii is a terrible thing to lose our friends es-
| pecislly il we find out afterward that they
/ might have been saved.
! We are glad General Grant is getting we'll.
| He deserves to live, and in living he will en-
! phasize the fact that physicians do not have
| monopoly over disease; that scientific
/ medicine" so-called, is not infsllible. that
! all remedial sgencie were not born with doc
J tors and will not die with them.