The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-03
A PUBLIC
CALAMITY
By Editor Wood of Wine and Spirit
Review

Editor Bohannon OF the Town and
Country Magazine in a recent edito-
rial on the discovery in this city OF
specific for chronic Bright's disease
declares from personal knowledge that
tho durability OF this hitherto deadly
disease Is now an established fact he
closes O strong article thus:
Many broad physicians are using
the new diuretlc, but In view OF the
terrible annual death list from this
disease tho fact that medical ethics
prevent them from proclaiming the
discovery to the world because the
formula Is the personal property OF In
dividuals. In this instance practically
amounts to a public calamity
Well said II 10 a public calamity.
Hero Is a disease that Is supposed TO
be fatal that 10 carrying of 10000 to
TO, 900 people annually, according TO the
census, and yet actual tests In this
city show that nearly nlne-tenths OF
the cases can and do recover under
ton OF the durability OF chronic
Brights disease was on trial before
the Superior Court, hundreds of citi-
zens OF thls city, including capitalists.
professional an6 business men, could
go into the witness box to swear to
their recoveries. and among them
would be the editor OF this publica-
be beyond further holp-a clear case
OF Brights disease in the chronic
stage 1 was sent South to prolong
life, Recovery seemed as impossible
os bolt Of lightning from a cloudless
sky. The new dluretc was brought
into the case. In six months I vas as
we'll es I ever was In my life. I told
several others. They got the same re-
suits.
It ie greatly to be regretted that un-
scrupulous medical advertisers have
brought almost universal dlscredity
upon their announcements. for with
tho usual channels OF publicity dis
trusted and the hands OF tho medical
profession tied by ethics, there appears
to be no open channel through which
the people OF the whole country can be
at once apprised in q convincing way
of the profound results OF Fulton's
memorable struggle With this disease.
There Is one way, and that would be
for Congress to make an approprta-
ton and procure the formula and give
1t to the Associated Press to be tele-
graphed all over the United States. IL
would In this way be at once univer-
sally available and would save tens
Of thousands Of lives that would other
wise be sacrificed before II Is general
ly known. With over 90 900 deaths q
year from Brights disease In the
United States alone, is 1t possible that
tho saving OF a majority Of this vast
army can be measured by any reason
able consideration
understand that a relative of Sena-
tor Perkins by marriage, a 32-desres
Mason and q prominent citizen Of
Philadelphia, was saved by the new
diuretic, and am also advised that q
relative Of one OF Senator Flint's val
ued friends has likewise recovered
In both cases after the finest profess
sional services to be had had been ex-
hausted. This should carry It directly
home to them, AS one Of the survt-
vors Of chronic BriGht's disease and
representing many more whom
know personally, I respectfully present
the matter to United States Senators
Perkins and Flint for their serious
consideration. = San Francisco Wine
and Spirit Review
II any one having ltpowledge Of q
case OF Brtght's Disease or Diabetes
will send us the name and address, we
will see that they are sent full litera-
ture concerning this remarkable dis
covery. F, j. hlll Drug Co, Second
South and West Temple.