Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-05-03

with sarcasm and Brilliant

bcAnutiaung with barCasm ana briuinnt
Truth.
New York letter.
Chap. L .Has Malaria : goes 10 TloridA
Chap. III. sHas Rhsumatisml 4 goes 70 Ems.
Chap. ~. Has row with his Docton
/ have read 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 anonyfnous. lsnspect
the experience portrayed Is q personal one;
the author inumates as much on page 81. Lst
me give you synopsis:
sMaiarla,S a. II states, sis the cloak with
which superficial physicians cover up null
titude Of al feelings which they do not un ief-
II ia also cover for such diseases as they
cannot cure When they advise their patient
TO travel or that he has overworked and
needs rest and is probably suffering from ma
i h, i Is confession OF Ignorance or OF ina
@ihe patient goes abroad. The change is q
tonic and for time he feels better Comes
home. Tickle appetite. frequent headaches,
severe colds, cramps, sleepleesness, lrritA-
bility, tired feelings, and general unhtness
for business are succeeded IN due time by
alarming attacks OF rheumatism which fits
about his body regardless of all human feel
ut is muscular-in his back Articular-in
his jonts Infammatory, my! how he fears
~ Will NY 10 MS hearth
snow of he goes to the springs. The doctor
sends him there, OF course, TO get we'll; at the
same time he does not really want him to die
on his hands, ttnr
That would hurt his businessl
@Better for a few days. Returns After
a. while neuralgia translates him. he
bloats; cannot breathe; has pneumonia; can
not walk; cannot sleep on his left side;
is fretful; very nervous and irritable; is
pale and habby; has frequent chills and
fevers; everything about him seems to go
wrong; becomes suspicious; musters up
courage, and demands to know what is killing
Great heavenl" he cries, @why have you
kept me so long in ignorance?"
Because said the doctor, II read your fate
five years ago thought best to keep you
ignorant OF the facts"
He dsmisses his doctor, but too lateI his
fortune has all gone in fees.
But him. what becomes of himp
The other day well-known Wall street
banker said to me- at is really astonishing
Two of my personal friends are now dying
of it But 1t 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
government in foreign country He knows,
appie ciates and declares the value OF that
preparation, because his nephew, who Is q
son OF Danish Vice Consul Schmidt, was pro-
nounced incurable when the remedy, Warmers
safe cure, was begun. @Yes," said his father,
Il was very skeptical, but since taking that
remedy the boy is well
happen to know what it was that cured
the boy for Gen. Christensen, OF Drexel,
Morgan & Co.'S, told me 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:
sIf, my friend, you have such an expert
encs as 1 have portrayed, do not put your
trust in physicians to the exclusion Of other
remedial agencies. They have no monopoly
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 ~unau-
thorized means