Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-05-26
A RACY BOOK.
scintillnting with Sarcasm and Rrillinu
Truth.

scintillnting with Sarcasm and Brilliant
a, Truth.
NetD York Letter.
Chap. I, alas Malaria;n goes to Florida.
Chap. II. "Overworked;' goes to Europe
Chap. Ill. elias rheumatism" goes &c
! Ems.
Chap. ". Has a row with his Doctor
l have read a deal of sarcasm in my day,
but never read anything equal to the sar'
| casm contained in the above four chaptered
book, written by some anonymous. | sus-
pect the experience portrayed is a personal
one; the author intimates as much on page
| 81. Let me give you synopsis;
Malaria as it states, sis the cloak with
which superficial physicians cover up a null
/ titude of i'll feelings which they do not Under
/ stand, AMI do not much care to investigate.
! 1t is also a cover for such diseases as they
cannot cure. When they advise their patient
/ to travel or that he has overwurked and needs
rest and is probably suffering from malar a
1t is Il confession of ignorance or of inabil-
| ity."
( 1.-THE patient goes abroad The change II
a tonic and for a time he feels better Comes
home. Tickle appetite, frequent headaches,
severe colds, cramps, sleepicssness, irrita'
bility, tired feelings, and general unfitnes1
for business are succeeded in due time by
alarming attacks of rheumatism which fits
about his body regardless of all human feel
ings.
ut Is muscular in his back. Articular
lin his joints. lntlammatory, myl how he
fears it will fly to his heartl
Now off he goes to the springs. The doc
tor sends him there Of course TO get well; at
the same time he does not really want him &c
die on his handsl
That would hurt his busineSl
"Bctter for few days. Returns After a
while neuralgia transtixes him He bloats
cannot breathe: has pneumonia; cannot walk
cannot sleep on his left side; is fretful; very
nervous and irritable; is pale and habby; has
frequent Chlls and fevers: everything about
him seems to go wrong; becomes suspicious
musters up courage and demands to Know
what Is killing him
Great helvens!n he cries, "wEy have you
kept me so long in ignorancep
Because, y said the doctor, " | read your
fate five years ago J. thought best to keeI
you ignorant of the facts
He dism sse' his doctor, but too late' His
fortune has all gone i'll fees
But him, what becomes of him
The other day well known Wall Street
banker said to me: at is really astonishing
| how prevalent 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 when his
physicians said recovery was impossible
The case seems to me to be wonderful one :
This gentleman formerly represented his gov.
eminent in fore gn country. He knows
appreciates and declares the value of that
PREPARATION because his nephew, who is son
of Danish Vice Consul Schmidt, was pro
nounced incurable when the remedy, War.
ner's Safe Cure, was begun. Yes" said his
father, Il was very skeptical, but since tax
ing that remedy She boy is WE'LL
happen to know what it was that cured
the boy, for Genl. Christensen, of Drexel
Morgan & Co. S, told mo that it was that
wonderful remedy, Warmers safe cure
Well, | suspect the hero of the book cured
himself by the same means.
cannot close my notice better than by
quoting the authors advice:
" If, my friend, you have such as expert
encc as | have portrayed, do not put your
trust in physicians to tho exclusion of other
remedial agencies. They have no monop-
oly over disease and | personally know that
many of them would far prefer that their
patients should go to Heaven direct from
their powerless hands than that they should
be saved to earth by the use of any "un-
authorized means y