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Day
26
Month
June
Year
1885
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Public Domain
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New York Oorrespoudctice America Rural líQmñ Chap. I. "Has Malaria;" goes to Florida. Chap. IL ''Overworked;" goes to Europe. Chap. III. "Has Rhenmatisn;" goes lo Ems. Chap. IV. Has a row with his Doctor! The abovo chapters, Mr. Editor, I tind in a book reoently published by un anonymou.s author. I have re.nl i deal of sareasm in mv day, but I nevo: read anything equal to the sarcasrv. herein contauied. I suspect the ex perience portrayed is a personal ono; in short, th-i imthor intímalas as much on page 31. Let me give yon a synopsis: 'Malaria" as it stntes, is the cloak with which superSoial physioians cover up a multitude of illfeelinofs which they ilo not understand, and do not 'mueii caro to Investígate. It in also a cover for such disoaso i as they oa'not cure. When they advise their patiënt to travel or tbat he is overworked uid nceds res and is probably sufftiring from malaria it is a confessíon oi ignorance or of inabilily. The patiënt poes abroad 'l'he change is a tonie and for a time he f els botter, ('oraos home. Fickle ap pefte, frequent headaohes, Bevere colds, cram s, sieeplessness. Irritabllity, tired feelinss, and general unfitness fo; business are succeeded in due time b alarming attacks of rheiimatisra which Hit about his boily rogardlcss of all human fon: (t is muscular, - in liis back. Articular, in his joints, [nflamnoatory, my! howhefearsit will fly to his heartl íow off he goes to the springs. The doctor senda him th re, of course, to et well: at the. same timo he does not really want him to die on his hands! 't'hat would hart his business! Botter for a few days. Returns. After a while neuralgia transfixes him He bloats; cannot breathe; i as pneumonía; cannot walk; oannot sleep on his left sido; is fretful; very nervous and irritable: is palo and 'abliv. lias frequent chills and f evers; everything about liim soems t' go wrong; becomes Kuspioious' mustera np strengtb and demands to know what' is i i!linr him! "Great he ven!" ho cries, "whyhave j mi k;pt me so lona: in ignorance?" "Becanse," said the doctor, "I read your fate five vea a ago. tiiought best lo keep you oomfortable and ignoran' nf the faets." Ho dismissed hia ti ctor, but too late! !l;.s fortune has al] gone to feos. But him, what becomes of lnm? The other day a woU-known Wall Street banker said to me '-it is really astoni8hinghow general bright'sdisease is beooming. Tuo of my personal triends are now dying of it. But it is not incurable I am certa'n, for un icphew was recently ured when his physioians said reeovery was impossi l)le. I he case s ems to me to be a wonderful one.'" This gentleman íorraerly represented overntnen"; in a f reifjjn country. He knows appre ciates and dcoi;ircs the valué, of tliat preparatíon,beoau8e his nephew, who i? a son of Danish Vice-C iisul -chmidt, was pronounce ! incurable when the remedy, Warner' s safe cure, was begun "Ves,1' said his father, "1 was very skeptical but since lak ng that remedy the boy is woll." I regr t to note that ex-fresident Aithur is said to be a victim to this terrible disease. He ought to i ve, but the probabilities aro that sinoo authorhed remedies cannot cure him, his physiciana will not advise him to save lis life, as so many thousands have done, by the use of Warner's safe cure which (.Jen. Christíansen, at Drexel, Morgan & ''o. 's., told me heregarded "as a wonderful remedy." Well, I suspect the nero of the book cured himself by the same means. The internal evidenoe points very strongly to this conclusión. I cannot close rnv notico of this book better than by quoting his advice to his readers. "If, my friend, you havo snch an exporience as I have portrayed, do not putyour trust in phyeicians to the exclusison of other remedial agencies. They have no monoply over dis ase and ■ pers nally know that manj' of them are so very 'eonseiontious' that they would far profer that their patients should go to Heaven direct from their powerless hands than that thcy should be saved by tLe nse of any 'unauthorized' means. And that the author's condemnation is too true, how many thousands duped, and yet rtscued, as he was, can personal y testify?

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