Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — A LESSON WITH A MORAL [ARTICLE]

A LESSON WITH A MORAL

When Will Our Eyes Be Opened to This Great National Calamity? The year lßßG.played sad havoc with many prominent men of ohr country. Many of then! died without warning, passing away apparently in the full flush of life. Others were sick but a comparatively short time. We turn to our flies ami are astonished to find that most of them died of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous prostration, of malignant blood-humor, of Bright’s disease, of heart disease, of kidney disease, of rheumatism, or of pneumonia. It is singular that most of onr prominent men die of these disorders. Any journalist who watches the telegraph reports, will be astonished at the number of prominent victims of these disorders. Many statements have appeared in our paper with others to the effect that the diseases that carried off so many prominent men in 1886, are really one disease, taking different names according to the location of the fatal effects. When a valuable horse perishes, it becomes the nine days’ talk of the sporting world, and yet thousands of ordinary horses< are dying every day, their aggregate lose is .enormous, and yet their death creates no comment. . So it is with individuals. The cause of death of prominent men creates comment," especially when it can be shown that one unsuspected- disease carries off most of them, and yet “vast numbers of ordinary men and women die before their time every year from the same cause.” It is said if the blood is kept free from uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis, nervous prostration, pneumonia, rheumatism, and many cases of consumption, would never be known. This uric acid, we are told, is tho waste of the system, and it is the duty of the kidneys to remove this waste. We are told that if the kidneys are maintained in perfect health, the uric, kidney, acid I is kept out of the blood, and those sudden and universal diseases caused by uric acid will, in a large measure, disappear. But how shall this bj done? It is folly to treat effects. If there is any known way of getting at the cause, that way should be known to tho public. We bel.evo that Warner’s safe cure, of which so much has been written, and so much talked of by the public generally, is now recognized by impartial physicians apd the public as tho one specific for such diseases. Because public attention has been directed to this great remedy by means of advertising, some persons have not believed in the remedy. Wo can not see how Mr. Warner could immediately benefit the public in any other way, and his valuable specific should not be condemned because some nostrums have come before the public in the same way, any more than that all doctors should be condemned because so many of them are incompetent. It is astonishing what good opinions you hear on every side of that great remedy, and public opinion thus based upon an actual experience has all the weight and importanbe of absolute truth. At this time of the year the uric acid in the blood invites pneumonia and rheumatism, and there is not a man who does not dread these monsters of disease; but he need have no fear of them, we are told, if he rid the blood of the uric acid cause. These words are strong, and may sound like an advertisement and be rejected as such by unthinking people, but we believe they are the truth, and as such should be spoken by every truth-loving newspaper.