Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — THAT TERRIBLE TRAGEDY! [ARTICLE]

THAT TERRIBLE TRAGEDY!

One of the Chief Causes of Sudden Insanity Illustrated. Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman. As details of the Rathbone wife murder are received they add to its horror. CoL Rathbone. the murderer, was with President Lincoln when Booth shot him, and was himself stabbed by the assassin. The event was followed by nervous prostration, -which produced, says Senator Harris, of Albany, painful dyspepsia, which, growing constantly worse in the last ten years, finally produced “blues” and periodical brain disorders. He was a model husband, but dyspepsia made him a monster! Experts tell us that the brain is the soundest of all organs, and they credit the alarming increase of insanity to derangements of the stomach. What the stomach is the blood will be, and bad blood has a very evil effect on the brain. Dyspepsia is a dangerous disorder, and yet it is far too often neglected when it might be checked or cured. H. 8. Benedict, for thirty-five years express agent up in Troy, has often related how for a long time his life was an unbearable burden. He says he would rather die than go through his old dyspeptic experiences. And John Etting, the widely known Cdd Fellow, of Hudson, informs us that what began in sour stomach, heartburn, lumpy sensations, and occasional constipation, resulted in confirmed dyspepsia, intense heat and distress in the stomach, belching of wind, hard and bloated bowels, loss of appetite, constant constipation, sick headache, and a despondent, irritable condition of mind. These gentlemen can realize, as can thousands of others, to what violence confirmed dyspepsia may drive a man! Happily for them they escaped mental frenzy by the timely use of Dr. David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy, of Rondout, N- Y-. a pure vegetable, non-alcoholic compound which in the past twenty years has cured in 90 per cent, of cases. It has a very large sale, and is regarded by physicians as most valuable for stomach, malarial, liver, kidney, urinary, female and blood disorders. If we would escape the full penalties ot dyspepsia, we must arrest it before it becomes chronic and sets the blood and brain on fire. The husband is called the head of the family only by those young writers who haven’t had any experience in married life