Four Acts Played!

"Dr. I incoln, wlio was at the " " neral of ex-Secretary Frelinghnysen, " "saya ex-Pres dent Arihur looked "very unwell. He is sufToring from " " Bright'a disease. During the past" " year it has assumed :t very " " vated forin." That telegram is act IV. of a drama writlen liy e l'resident Arthur's physicians. lu act I. he was tonde to appear iu " alaria," oí whioh all the country was told when he went to Florida. In act II. he represented atired man, worn down, walkiDg the gands at Old l'oini Comfort and looking eastward over the Allantie, toward Europe for a longer rest. The ourtain rolls up for act 111. upon the distinguiahed aotoi affeoted with melaneholy from Brigbt's disease, while act IV. discovers liini with the disease "in an aggravatcd form, suffering intensely, (which is unnsual) and about to takt; a sea royage." .lust such as this is the plot of many dramas by play-wrighfa óf the medical profession. ïhey wnie the flrsl two or three acts with no conception of vvhat their oharacter will dovelop in the linal one. They have not the discernment for traeing in the early„ vvhat the latter irnpersonations wil] be. Notonephysiciao in a hundred the adequate miscroscopic and chemical applian es for discovering bright's disease In its early stages, and when many do Bnally comprehead that theiï patients are dying with it, when death ooouxs, they will to cover up their igr.orance of il, pronount e the fatality lo have been caused by ordinary alimenta, whereaa these aumente are really resulta of bright's discaso of which they are an onseious victims. Beyond auy. doubt, 80 per cent. of all deaths exceptfrom epidémica and accident?, reault from diseased kidneye or livers. If the dying be distinguished and nis friends too intellige 't to be easily deceived, lii pliyiscians perhaps pronounce the complafnt to be pericarditis, pyannia, sepl cssmia, bronchitis, pleuritis, valvular UÑsons of tlie heart, pneumonía, etc. If the diseased beless noted, "malaria" is now the fashionable assignment of the cause of death. But all the s me, named right or named wrong, this fearful soourgegathers them in ! While it prevalía among persons of sedentary habita,- lawyers, clergymen, iongressmen, - it also plays great havoc among farmers, day laborera and méchanos, though they do not suspect it, because their physicians keep it fr m their, if indeed they are able to detect it. It Bweepa thousands of women and children into antimoly graves every year. The liealth gives way gradnally, the strength s variable, the appetite Hckle, the vigor g;ts less and less. This isn't malaria - it is the beginning ofkidney disease and will end who does nol know howP No, nature has not been rèmiss. Independent research has given an infalliulü remcdy for this common disorder; but of coui'ge the bigoted physicians will not use Warner's safe cure, leeause it is ;i private afl'air and ■ DtS up their praotice by restoring the health of those who have been invalida for ears. The new saying of "how common i right's disease is beooming among prominent men!" is gelting old, and as the Englishman would eay, sounds "stnpid" especial ly "stnpid'1 sin.ee this dise ge is readily deteeted by the more learned men and specialiste of this disease. Hut the "common run" of physicians, not delectingit, givethe patiënt Kpsom alis or other drugs prescribedby the old code of 'treatinent under which their grandfathers and 5 eat-gi andfat ers pricticedl Anon, we In ir thai the patiënt is "comfort able. " 1! t ere long, maybe, they tap" him and take somo water from him and iho "comfortable ' story is told. ': orfnre bi rather than allow him to use Wanur's safo cure ! With such variations the doctors )lay upon theunfnriiiiiateut t;l bis shroud is mad , when we team that he died from heart 'lisease, py.rmia, septiosemia or some other deceptire though "dignified oause.1' Ex-President Arthnr's case is not Angular it is ty pical of every such ease. "He is suffering intensely." Th s is not usual, (ienerally there is almos! no siiOering. t'e mav recover, if he will act independen Uy of Hs p)rj8Íeian8. he agency named has eured thousands of persons ovnn in the extreme stages is to-day the main-stay :f the healln of hundreds of thousands t is an unfortunate f.icl that physicians will not ulmit there i any virtue out■ide their own sphere, but as each ■i hooi denies virture to all others, the peop'e act on their own judgment and iccept thi gs by the record of merit hey niake. The fftots ;sr' causé for alarm, but here is abundant hope in prompt and ndependent aetion.