Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — FOUR ACTS FLAYED. [ARTICLE]

FOUR ACTS FLAYED.

8«m» Abort* Ex-Frosldant Arthur—tgill the Firth and Final Art Be a Trag[Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.] “Dr. Lincoln, who wa* at the funeral of ex-Sscretary Frelinghuysen, pays e«-Presi-dent Arthur looked very unwell. He Is suffer,n* from Bright's disease, boring -the past year it has assumed a very aggravated form.” TBttt telegram is Act IV. of a drama written by ox-PresidCut Arthur's physicians. In Act I. ho was made to appear in “Malaria,” of which all the country was told when he went to Florida. * In Aot 11. he was represented a tired man. worn down, walking the sands at Old Point Comfort, ant Hooking eastward over tho Atlantic toward Europe for a longer rest. The curtain nails up for Act 111. upon the distinguished actor affected with melancholy from Bright's disease, while Act IV. discovers him with the disease “in An aggravated 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 acta with no conception of what their character will develop in the final one. They have not the discernment for tracing in flie early, what the latter impersonations will be. Not one physician In a hundred baa thp adequate microscopic and chemical appliances for discovering Bright’s disease in its early stages, and when many do flually comprehend that thete patients are dying with it, when death occurs they will, to cover up their ignorance of it, pronounce the fatality to havo fieen caused by ordinary ailments, whereas these ailments are really results of Bright’s dlsesse, of which they are unconscious victims. Beyond any doubt, 80 per 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 bo easily decoived. his physicians perhaps pronounce the complaint to be pericarditis, pyemia, septicemia, bronchitis, pleuritls, valvular lesions of the hoart, pneumonia, etc. If the deceased be less noted, “malaria” is now the fashionable assignment of the cause pf death. But all the same, named right or named wrong, this fearful scourge gathers them in! While it prevails among persons of 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 themv IT indeed they are able to detect it. It sweeps thousands of women and children into untimely graves every year. The health 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 research has given an infallible remedy for this common disorder; but of course the bigoted physicians will not 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 praoticed 1

Anon, we hear that the patient la “comfortable.” But ere long, may be, they “tap” him and take some water from him and 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 yre learn that he died from heart disease, pyaemia, septicaemia or some other deceptive though “dignified cause.” Ex-President Arthur's case is not singular —it is typical of every such case. “He is suffering intensely.” This is not usual. Generally there is almost no suffering. He may receiver, 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 huudreds 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 things by the record of merit they make. The facts aro cause for alarm, but there is abundant hope in prompt and independent action.