San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-01-26
LESSONS FROM LIFE.
A Great National Calamity--.What II
Teaches.

Teaches.
The last few years have played sac
havoc with many prominent men o
our country.
Many of them died without warn
ing, passing away apparently in tn
full flush of life.
Others were sick but a compare
lively short time. We turn to on
files and are astonished to find tina
most of them died of apoplexy, o
paralysis, of nervous prostration, o
malignant blood humor, of bright''
disease, OF heart disease, of kidney
disease, of rheumatism or of pneu
monia,
1t is singular that most of oul
prominent men die of these disor
ders. Any journalist who watches
the telegraph reports, will be aston
ished at the number of prominent
victims of these disorders.
Many statements have appeared il
our paper with others to the effect
that the diseases that carried off sc
many prominent men in 1887, are
really one disease, taking different
names according to the location o
the fatal effects.
When u valuable horse perishes, il
becomes the nine days talk of the
sporting world, and yet thousands OF
ordinary horses are dying every day
their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment
So it is with individuals. The
cause of death of prominent men Gre
ates comment, especially when it can
be shown that one unsupported dis
ense carries off most of them, and yet
"vast numbers of ordinary men and
women die before their time every
year from the same cause.
It's said If the blood is kept free
from uric acid, that heart disease,
paralysis, nervous prostration, pneu'
monia, rheumatism, and many cases
of consumption, would never be
known. This uric acid, we are told,
is the waste of the system, and it ii
the duty of the kidneys to remove
tbis waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the
uric, kidney, acid is kept out of the
blood, and these sudden and univer-
sal diseases caused by uric acid will,
in large measure disappear.
But how shall this be done? 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 80 much talked of by
the public generally, is now recog-
nized by impartial physicians and the
public as the one specific for such
diseases.
Because public attention has been
directed to this great remedy by
means of advertising, some persons
have not believed in the remedy.
We cunnot see 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 tue
public in the same way, any more
than that all doctors should be con
demned because 30 many of them are
incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opin-
ions you hear on every side, of that
great remedy, and public opinion
thus based upon IN actnal experience,
has all the weight and Importance of
absolute truth.
At this time of the year, the uric
acid in the blood invites pneumonia
and Rheumatism, and there is not a
man who does not dread these mon
sters of disease; but he need have no
fear Of them we are told, if he rid the
blood OF the uric acid cause.