Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — FOUR ACTS PLAYED. [ARTICLE]

FOUR ACTS PLAYED.

Sad Report About Ex-President Arthur— Will the Fifth and Final Act Be a Tragedy? (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.] ‘‘Dr. Lincoln, who was at the funeral of ex-B.»cretary Frelinghuysen, fays ex-Presi-deut Arthur looked very unwell. He is suffer.ng from Bright’s disease. During the past year it has assumed a very aggravated form." That telegram is Act IV. of a drama written by ex-President Arthur’s physicians. In Act 1. he was made to appear in "Malaria,” of which all the country was'told when he went to Florida. In Act 11. he was represented a tired man. worn down, walking the sands at Old Point Comfort, and looking eastward over the Atlantic towurd Europe for a longer rest. The curtain ro Is up for Act 111. upon the distinguished actor atfceted with melancholy from Bright’s d.sease, while Act iV. il scorers him with the d.sease "in an aggravate! form, suffering intensely (which is unusual), and about to take a sea voyage.” Just such as this is the plot of many dramas by playwrights of the medical profession. They write the first two or three acts with no conception of what their character will develop in the final one. They have not the discernment for tracing in the early, what tho latter Impersonations wilt be. Not one physician in a hundred has the adequate microscopic and chemical appliances for discovering Bright's disease in its early stages, and when many do finally comprehend that their patients are dying with it, when death occurs they will, to cover up their ignorance of it, pronounce the fatality to have beon caused by ordinary ailments, whereas these ailments are really results of Bright’s disease, of which they are unconscious victims. Beyond any doubt, 80 p?r cent, of all deaths, except from epidemics and accidents, result from diseased kidneys or livers. If the dying be distinguished and his friends too intelligent to be easily deceived, his physicians perhaps-pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis, pyaemia, septicsemia, bronchitis, pleurltis, valvular lesions of the heart, pneumonia, etc. ir the deceased be less noted, "malaria” is now the fashionable assignment of the cause of death. But all the same, named right or named wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in! While it prevails among per-onsof sedentary habits—lawyers, clergymen, Congressmen—it also plays great havoc among farmers, day laborers, and mechanics, though they do not suspect it, because their physicians keep It from them, if indeed they are able to detect it. It sweeps thousands of women and children into untimely graves every year. The hoalth gives way gradually, the strength is variable, the appetite fickle, the vigor gets less and less. This isn't malaria—it Is the beginning of kidney disease, and will end—who does not know how? No, nature has not been remiss. Independent researeh has given an Infallible remedy for this common disorder; but of course the bigoted physicians will hot use Warner’s Safe Cure, because It is a private affair and cuts up their practice by restoring the health of those who have been invalids for years. The new saying of “how common Bright’s disease is becoming among prominent men 1 ” is getting old, and as the Englishman would say, sounds “stupid”—especially “stupid" since this disease is readily detected by the more learned men and specialists of this disease. But the “common run ” of physicians, not detecting it, give the patient Epsom salts or other drugs prescribed by the old code of treatment under which their grandfathers and great-grandfathers practiced! Anon, we hear that the patient is “comfortable.” But ere long, may be, they “tap” him ar.d take some water from him aud again the “comfortable” story is told. Torture him rather than allow him to use Warner’s Safe Cure! With such variations the doctors play upon the unfortunate until«his shroud is made, when we learn that he died from heart disease, pytemia, septiesrmia or some other deceptive though “dignified cause.” Ex-President Arthur’s caso is not singular —it is typical of every such case. “He ia suffering intensely.” This is not usual. Generally there is almost no suffering. He may recover, if he will act independently of his physicians. The agency named has cured thousands of persons even in the extreme stages—is to-day the mainstay of the health of hundreds of thousands. It Is an unfortunate fact that physicians will not admit there is any virtue outside their own sphere, but as each school denies virtues to all others, the people act on their own judgment and accept tbings-hy the record of merit they make. The facts are cause for alarm, but there is abundant hope in prompt and independent action.