St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27
A SINGULAR BOOK.
scfntillatfng With Sarcasm and Brilliant
With Truth.


scintiIlating With Sarcasm and Brilliant
With Truth.
New York Correspondence American Rural
Home.1
Chap. I. elias Malaria;" goes to Flor
Chap. II. "overworked;" goes to Eu.
rope.
Ems.
The above chapters, Mr.. Editor, find in
a book recently published by an anony-
NOUS author. have read deal of sar-
casm in my day, but I never read any
thing equal to the sarcasm herein con-
tanned. suspect the experience portrayed
is personal one; in short, the author in
Inmates as much on page 81. Let me give
you a synopsis:
Malaria" as it states, is the cloak with
which superficial physicians cover up @
multitude fill feelings which they do not
understand, and do not much care to 1nves-
tigate. tbs also cover for such diseases
as thew cannot cure. When they advise
their patient to travel or that he has
oyerworked and needs rest and is
probably suffering from malaria, 1t is a
confession of ignorance or OF inability.
The patient goes abroad. The change is a
tonic and for a time he feels better. Comes
home. Tickle appetite, frequent head
aches, severe colds, cramps, sleeplessness,
irritability, tired feelings, and general I'M
fitness for business are succeeded III due
time by alarming attacks of rheumatism
which fit about his body regardless OF all
human feeling.
1t is muscular,-in his back. Articular,
in his joints. Intlammatory, my! how
he fears it will fly to his heart! Now off
he goes to the springs. The doctor sends
him there, of course, to get well; at the
same time he does not really want him to
die on his hands!
That would hurt his business!
Better for few days. Returns: After
| a while neuralgia transfxes him. He
bloats; can not breathe; has pneumonia;
can not walk; can not sleep on his left
| side: is fretful; very nervous and irrlta-
| BILE: is pale and fabby; has frequent chills
and fevers; everything about him seems
| to go wrong; becomes suspicious; musters
| up strength and demands to know what is
| killing him!
"Great heavenp he cries, "why have
you kept me so long in ignorance"
because" said the doctor, 81 read your
fate five years ago. thought best to keep
you comfortable and ignorant of the facts
He dismisses the doctor, but too late!
! His fortune has all gone to fees.
But him, what becomes of him?
The other day well-known Wall street
| banker said to me cit is really astonishing
how general bright's disease is becoming
] Two of my personal friends are now dying
| of it. But it is not incurable am certain
for my nephew was recently cured WheI
his physicians said recovery was lmposs s
BILE. The case seems to me to be won
derful one." This gentleman formerly
represented his government in forelgr
country. He knows, appreciates and de-
! clares the value of that preparation, be-
cause his nephew, who is son OF Dan!sf
Vice-Consul Schmidt, was pronounced IN
durable when the remedy, Warmers SAT-
cure, was begun. tYes,' said his father
81 was very skeptical but since taking
that remedy the boy is WE'LL
I regret to note shat ex-Presldent Ar
thur is said to be victim of this terrible
disease. He ought to live, but the proba
hilities are that since authorized aremed1e
can not cure him, his physicians will no
advise him to save his life, as so man1
thousands have done, by the use of War
ner's safe cure, which Gen. christensen
at Drexel, Morgan & Co.'s, told me he re
garded t'as wonderful remedy
Well, / suspect the hero of the boo
cured himself by the same means. The IN
ternal evidence points very strongly t
this conclusion.
| can not close my notice of this boo
better than by quoting his advice 60 hl
readers:
sIf, my friend, you have such an expe
rience as [ have portrayed do not Po
your trust in physicians to the exclusio
J of other remedial agencies. They hay
no monopoly over disease and l PERSONAL
know that many of them are so very con
scientious' that they would far prefer Ina
their patients should go to Heaven direc
from their powerless hands than that the
should be saved to earth by the use of an
unauthorized MEANS"
And that the authors condemnation
too true, how many thousands duped, an
| yet rescued, as he was, can personally ties
tify2