The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
A SCIENTISTS WARNING.
synopsis of a Remarkable Lecture, DeIiv-
cred by DIR. X. Il. Hammond Before the
National Scientists Convention.

National Sctenttsts Convention.
-" We call this an age of progress
and so in very many respects it is, but
do not hesitate to declare most en-
phatically that in many things that
constitute TRUEhappiness we are simply
children. Let us see: We are startled
constantly by the sudden death of some
man who seemed the picture of health.
He thought he was well. Occasionally
his appetite was poor, but then in few
days afterward it was ravenous. He
felt strange pains shooting through
his body, but, as they did not remain,
he forgot them. His head panied
him periodically, he was somewhat
paler than common, and unaccountably
tired, but he felt comparatively well
and vigorous. And yet he suddenly
died! 1t is shame to our boosted civ
ilization.n
DIR. Hammond then instanced num-
Der of cases of persons well known to
him who had died in great agony, al
though they had experienced few symp-
toms and little pain, and continued:
Why is it that so many little chill
dren are to-day puny, stunted, and APP
parently blighted for life? Because those
early and inevitable diseases, measles,
scarlatina, etc., have so weakened GER
tain organs that nature cannot do her
work, and the child languishes, per-
haps dies. Look at the list of women
who die in childbirth, and why is it?
Simply because their maternal organs
have been so weakened by the most
terrible of all diseases that they cannot
withstand the fearful sudden strain
that is brought to bear upon them. How
many women escape monthly agonies?
And yet nature never intended that
pain and inconvenience should attend
the operation of her natural laws. The
solemn and terrible fact is that men
and women drag along, die and are
buried, as their friends and the doctors
say, of heart disease, apoplexy, pneu-
monia, COMPOSITIONS, commissions, when
the cause lay far back of these things,
and was Bright's disease of the kidneys.
That was the inward cause: these are
the outward manifestations. Every
disease must have a root, Just as GER
tainly as every plant. Kidney disease
is the great root from which most mod
ern diseases, no matter what their name
may be, actually spring.
-" But because the kidne US are so i'm
portant, so delicate and so powerful
they require the greatest care in treat
ment. Ever since the day when DIR.
Bright discovered the connection be-
tween morbid outward symptoms and
internal decay physicians, scientists
and chemists have sought for pure
and powerful relief. 1t has been diff
ficult, often fruitless, search. Many
remedies are now before the public,
but, so far as | have been able to learn
by chemical analysis and actual test,
only one possesses absolute merit and
power. / have seen a number of cas- es
and learned from unquestionable sources
of many others, where the preparation
Hunts Remedy has been almost re-
markable in its results. One case in
particular was that of a prominent
banker residing in New York, whose
family physicians, assisted by the best
counsel that city could produce, declared
his case to be hopeless, and who was
the means have named 1 have not
hesitated to use it freely among my pa
tents, and from the results / have Sc
, cured / shall continue to do So"
, The doctor explained how men and
, | WOllcu ouOulu i've III OIueI W ulccu luls
,, terrible malady, and instanced severa
!, additional cures which had followed
the use of the remedy before referred to.
,, In concluding, he said
7 If men and women could only be
aroused to realization of their actual
danger-to a sense of what is before
them unless they take prompt and
; proper action-and then, by correct
! course of life and the use of Just the
!, right means, seek to prolong their lives
most of the present suffering and un
, timely deaths might and would be
= avoided"