Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-01-05
LESSONS FROM LIFE.
A Great National Calamity-.what II
Teaches.

The last few years have played sad
havoc with many prominent men of oui
country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full flush
of life.
Others were sick but a comparatively
short time. We turn to our files and are
astonished to find that most Of them died
of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous
prostration, of malignant blood humor,
of Brights disease, of heart disease, oil
kidney disease, of rheumatism or of pneu
monia
1t is singular that most of our prominent
men die of these disorders. Any journalist
who watches the telegraph reports, will be
astonished at the number Of prominent
victims of these disc riders.
Many statements have appeared in our
paper with others to the effect that the
diseases that carried off so many promi
nent men in 1897, are really one disease,
taking different names according to the
loo. ion of the fatal Effects
When a valuable horse perishes, it be.
comes the nine days talk of the sporting
world, and yet thousands of ordinary
horses are dying every day, their aggre-
gate loss is enormous, and yet theiI
death creates no comment
So it is with individuals The cause Of
death Of prominent men creates comment
especially when it can be shown that one
unsupported disease carries off most Of
them, and yet vast numbers of ordinary
men and women die before their time
every year from the same cause
1t is said if the blood is kept free from
uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis,
nervous prostration, pneumonia, rheuma-
tlsm, and many cases Of consumption
would never be known. This uric acid,
we are told, is the waste of the system,
and it is the duty Of the kidneys to remove
this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are main
tanned in perfect health, the uric, kidney,
acid is kept out of the blood, and these
sudden and universal diseases caused by
uric acid will, in a large measure disap-
pear.
But how shall this be done9 1t is folly
to treat effects. If there is any known
way of getting at the cause, that way
should be known to the public. We
believe that Warmers safe cure. of which
so much has been written, and so much
talked of by the public generally, is now
recognized by impartial physicians and
the public as the one specific for such
diseases.
Because public attention has been di-
rected TO this great remedy by means of
advertising some persons have not be-
lieved in the remedy. We cannot see
how Mr. Warner could Immediately bene-
fit the public in any other way, and his
valuable specific should not be condemn
cd because some nostrums have come be-
fore the public in the same way, any more
than that all doctors should be condemn
ed because so many of them are lncom-
petent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side, of that great
remedy, and public opinion thus based
upon an actual experience, has call the
weight and Importance of absolute truth,
At this time of the year, the uric acio
in the blood invites pneumonia and rheu
matism, and there is not a man who does
not dread these monsters Of disease; but
he need haYe no fear Of them we are told,
if he rid the blood of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may sound
like an advertisement, and be rejected as
such by unthinklng people, but we be
lieve they are the truth. rs rs such should
be spoken by every truth-loving newspa'
per.