Connecticut western news., 1888-01-11
LESSONS FROM LIFE.
Great National Calamity-What Ii
 Tenchces

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. time. We turn to our files and are astonished to find that most of them died of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous prostration, of ma lgnant blood humor, of Bright's disease, of heart disease, of kidney disease, of rheuma- dSm or of pneumonia.
 It is singular that most of our prominent men die of these disorders. Any journalist who watches the telegraph reports will be as- tonished at the number of prominent victims of these disorders.
 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 perishes, it 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 creates comment, especially when it can be shown that one un- 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"
 It is said if the blood is kept free from uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis, ner vous DrostrationJ 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 the duty of the kidneys to remove this waste.
 We are told that if the kidneys are main tained 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, disappear.
 But how shall it be donel It 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 uer's 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 ae the one specific for such diseases.
 Because public attention has been directed to this great remedy by means of advertis. ing, some persons have not believed in the remedy We cannot see how MT Warner could immediately benefit the public in any other way, and his valuable specific should not be condemnei because some nostrums have come before the public i'll the same way, any more than that all doctors should be con demned because so many of them are in competent.
 It is astonishing what good opinions you hear on every side, of that great remedy, and public opinion thus based upon an actual 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 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 l like an advertisement, and be rejected as | such by minimizing people, but we believe | they are the truth, and as such should be | spoken by every truth-loving newspaper.