Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — FOOD FOR REFLECTION. [ARTICLE]

FOOD FOR REFLECTION.

The New York World, of February 9th, says: ’ • ‘‘The question as to how much of what they pretend to know doctors really know is a very interesting one- . “They possess exceptionally great facilities for humbugging, and the presumption is that they are not proof in most cases, at all times at least, against temptation to make use of them. Their profession comes as near being an esoteric one as any that is acknowledged to be respectable But the revelation as to their views in the Robinson arsenical poisoning cases in Boston is startling. “There were five deaths from the drug, and the doctors in their certificates attributed them respectively to pneumonia, typhoid fever, menigitis, bowel disease, and Bright’s disease of the kidneys. The truth would have never been known but for suspicions with which the doc' ors had nothing to do. There is food he: e for reflection—and for doctors.” The above criticism is fully warranted by the startling ignorance shown by the attending physicians in the Somerville Cases.

It can be aptly said that human life is too often sacrificed,,to the ignorance and bigotry of the profession. Too often it happens that fatal results follow an improper course of treatment —the physician treats the patient for consumption, general debility, or for nervous disorders, whilst the real disease which is slowly destroying the kidneys, and filling the system with a poison quite as*deadly as arsenic, is altogether overlooked or does not attract attention until too late. Physicianstoo often treat the Symptoms of disease instead of the disease itself. It is well established that four-fifths of the ordinary ills which bespt humanity are the results of disease in the kid neys which will yield to the curative properties of Warner’s Safe Cure, if timely used, and to it alone. What is apparently a disease in the other organs is more oftentimes a mere symptom of kidney disease, which should bis quickly eradicated by Warner’s Safe Cure before It secures toolflrm a hold on those Organs.