Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-05-13

A sanitary Certificate.

A sanitary Certificate.
II Richard Croker, who is chief Of Tam.
<1any Hall and very excellent success
~ to John Kelly who wore himself out
~ that service, was in danger Of a like
3afe when he took counsel Of his friend,
william Steinway, and went away TO
Europe TO put himself under the care Of
She celebrated sanitary counsellor"
Wilhelmi. As soon US he had gone away
Gortain alert enemies OF Tammany Hall,
headed by an arch scamp known us
William II. Grace, who has been
mayor of New York city, conspired
-. get the Republican Senate Of the
state to appoint committee to sit upon
The city; which committee appointed
one Ives, who is Grace's right hand
s1mau, to conduct its inquiry with the
tpnsequcnce of great commotion
among the Tammany people, who held
the county offices. The sherifl's office,
which has ever been rich plum to the
bArty aud the faithful henchman who
held II, and which was lately held by
Mayor Grant, was turned upside down,
and finally handed over to General
8Ickles after which a savage assault was
made on Grant In his Office of mayor. The
airing seems to have been all with
powder, no evidence Of wrong doing be-
ing presented against the mayor, who
was Richard Croker's protege and selec-
sion. A brother-in-law of Croker was
flnally turned up, who has just lost a
tavern stand in the park, and who In
his anger has been ready TO swear
Vengeance against the mayor. Worth
less as the fellows testimony clearly is,
'3t has made sensation ;and cablegrams
land letters and newspaper reporters
have been seeking out Croker In his re-
ttrement at Wiesbaden until his health
eouncillor has been obliged to issue the
s1bllOwing bulletin through the New
York newspapers
mont, suffering from pleuritic ejaculation
md high degree OF cerebral neurasthenia,
which latter has resulted from long con-
Hnued and excessive mental exertson.
Although under proper treatment the
paeufitic ejaculation has disappeared, the
neurasthenia absolutely demands that the
patient for long time abstain from every
fnental exertion and excitement, otherwise
complete cure Of the same Is impossible.
DIR. WuHELMI, Sanitary Councillor.
s WIEsBADEN, April 2s, 1890.
We print this statement as interest
5lng testimony of the way in which q
1a3thful public servant may be worried
into Illness by his severe mental exer-
Hon, and may then be worried to death
~ the conspiracy Of rascally foes and
he buzzing Of newspaper reporters
md with the further purpose of calling
ottenti0n to the unfailipg habit of the
sloarned-and unlearned- physician, of
Dxpresslng his simple commands In
e1mplex words.
This expression OF DIR. Wilhelmi Is u
eomparatively mild manifestation of the
chronic habit, as we can come pretty
near to guessing what he means to say.
He says directly that Mr.. Croker Is suf-
.1eslng from long continued and exces-
Solvely mental exertion, This has pro-
Auced cerebral neurasthenia shd
pleuritic exeudation ; and though we dc
not know what these diseases are, 1t Is not
esDsntial that we shall know, their cause
bsing quite sufficient to indicate the ne
eoesity Of absolute rest to Mr.. Croker's
mental faculties, which is what the
doctor enjoins. And he might just
- well have omitted their mighty
Terms from his direction if he did not
'Want to crafty our curiosity as to the
precise effort on Mr.. Croker's constitu-
ton of his excessive mental worry, he
need not have told us what had hap
pened to him but when he did under
take to tell us he might have done il In
Words that we can understand without
Docourss to medical dictionary.
The doctor goes to Latin as the sparks
~ upward. 1t was SO he gathered in his
Aesee, which is in Latin. No earthly
ser T''' prevent his%Giling his pre-
q enai.ense aplLatin. If he p7aprs5es
'r-., 70 ater, he writes II aqua. Possibly
The result is great impression of his
Earning upon the ignorant patient; but
whether this is sufficient offset
~ the suspicion that he is a
|Ho0se, caused his intelligent patient,
j. > question. Certainly 1t is plain that
The English language should be suffi-
Hlent for the doctors needs, and that its
- would tend to the simplification of
eoanmunication aud the correction of
mistakes all around between doctor,
ap0thecary and patient.
Which Is the lesson We draw from
pf. Wilhelmi's letter; the other
being the duty imposed upon the
people TO be merciful to over
worked servants; to give them a
GhAnce to be honest and faithful
cd still live. Mr.. Croker is well recog-
nfsed a. q man of strict integrity, who
- taken charge of the Tammany
1eeiety with an eye single to its honorable
Gnd successful direction. 1t is this
ociety which furnishes the officials TO
(ew York city and which is potential
- naming the officers and policy of state
md national government The response
3llty Of its direction is great. It's power
~ good or evil is immense. When then il
Il known to be directed by honest hands.
1850 hands should be strengthened by
- public and the newspapers and
Nhen they fall in physical weakness, it
- . command Of the most ordinary hu-
nAnity, to give them peace and pend
- their disability to call off the dogs of
~ aud dogs Of the press.
T.