Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-01-07
LESSONS FROM LIFE.
A Great National Gala mity-What 1t
Teaches,

The last few years have played sad havoc
with many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning, pass
ing away apparently in the full flush of life
Others were sick but comparatively short
fine We turn to our files and are astonshed
to find that MT Of them died of apoplexy
of paralysis, "a nervous prostration, of ma
lignant blood humor, OF Brights disease, of
heart disease, of kidney disease, of rheuma-
tiSm or Of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most Of our prominent
men die of these disorders. Any journalist
who We tches the telegraph reports will be as
tonished at the number of prominent victims
Of these disorders
Many statements have appeared in our
paper with others. to the effect that the dis
eases that carried off so many prominent
men in 1887, are really one disease, taking
different names according to the location OF
the fatal effects.
When a valuable horse pcrishes it becomes
the nine days talk of the sporting world, and
yet thousands of ordinary horses are dying
and yet their death creates no comment.
So 1t Is with individuals. The cause Of
death of prominent men creates comment,
especially when it can be shown that one I'M
suspected 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, ner'
vouS DroStraton, pneumonia, rheumatism,
and many cases of consumption would never
be known. This uric acid, we are told, is the
waste of the system, and it is tho 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 caus d by uric acid WILL in
a large measure, disappear.
But how sh all it be donei II 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 War
ners 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 ne the one specific
for such diseases.
Because public attention has been di 'ected
to this great remedy by means of advertis
ing, some persons have not believed in the
remedy. We cannot SEQ how Mr. Warner
could Immediately benefit the public in any
other way, and his valuable specific should
not be CONDEMNED because some nostrums
have come before the public in the same way
any more than that all doctors should be con
demned because so many Of them are in
competent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions you
hear on every side. of that great remedy,
and public opinion thus based upon an actua
experience, has all the weight and importance
of absolute truth.
At this time Of the year, tie uric acid ii
the blood invites pneumonia and rheumatism
and there is not n man who does not dread
these monsters of disease; but he need have
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, AMI be rejected Il.
such by unthinking people, but we believe
they are tho truth, and ms such should be
spoken by every truth-loving newspaper.