Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-26
FUOD FOR REFLECTION.

The New York World of February 9th
says
The question as to how much of what
they pretend to know, doctors really know
is very interesting one.
They possess exceptionally great facili-
ties for humbugglng, and the presumption
is that they are not proof in most cases, at
all times at least, against temptation to
make use of them. Their profession comes
as near being an esoteric one as any that is
acknowledged to be respectable. But the
revelation as to their views in the Robin
son arsenical poisoning cases in Boston is
startling.
There were five deaths from the drug.
and the doctors in their certificates attrib-
uted them respectively to pneumonia, ty-
phoid fever, menigitis, bowel disease and
Brights disease of the kidneys. The
truth would never have been known but
| for suspicious with which the doctors had
nothing to do. There is food here for re-
| fiection-and for doctors"
The above criticism is fully warranted
by the startling ignorance shown by the
| attending physicians in the Somerville
cases.
1t can be aptly said that human life is too
often sacrificed to the ignorance and bigotry
of the profession.
| Too often it happens that fatal results
| the physician treats the patient for con-
sumption, general debility or for nervous
| disorders, whilst the real disease, which is
| slowly destroying the kidneys and filling
| the system with poison quite as deadly as
arsenic, is altogether overlooked or does
not attract attention until too late
Physicians too often treat the symptoms
of disease instead of the disease itself
1t is well established that four-fifths of
| rt-bi biobh L,,n
the results of disease in the kidneys which
will yield to hecurative properties of War
ner's Safe Cure if timely used, and to it
| alone. What is apparently disease in the
other organs is more oftentimes a mere
| symptom of kidney disease, which should
be quickly eeradicated by Warmers Safe
Cure before it secures too firm hold on
those organs.
Ancient and Modern Nfillionaires.
Happily, we are long way off such a
catastrophe. Our modern millionaires,
rich though they may seem to us, are mere
paupers when compared in wealth to the
Midases of old Neither jay Gould, Van
derbilt, the Duke of Westminster, Astor,
Rhinelander, nor Rothschild, owns
tithe of the vast boards possessed bv
| the ancients, the misuse of which
| PiONOhSu tHS NOWIldll vi Tic INOUldil
State. Tiberius, the second Emperor of
Rome, left to Caligula sum of money in
hard cash equivalent to S12S, 125, 900,
which, if history is to be believed, the
latter gentleman spent in one year of royal
and unbounded spree. Cesar began life
owing S10,000,000 and before he ended it
had got through S735,000,O00 of public
treasure. Not the greatest of our boodlers
ever even dreamt of such omnivorous en-
bezzlement. Crnsus had nice little nest
egg, $10,000,000, besides real estate and
slaves beyond counting. Esopus is re-
ported to have expended $4,000 in a
single dish, of which phoenix eggs
and canned ambrosia direct from Olym-
pus were, probably, component ingredi-
ents. Caligula paid 100000 for one
SUPPER beating the Nitrate King by long
odds for distance. Heliogabalus gobbled
up 100000 at one debauch, and Lucullus
never spent less than that sum on a meal.
Where these rioters slowed away their vic
tuals is open to theory. l have seen sea-
sick people feed themselves then the
fishes, and then themselves again, and 1
fancy these gourmands must have acted on
the same principle, or on that of Jack the
Giant t-Killer, who tied leathern sack un-
der his doublet as sort of secondary stom-
ach.-New York Truth.