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Cleveland In Peril

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Day
24
Month
March
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, Mareh 23.- Dr. Z. T. Sowers, one of the most prominent physicians oí Washington, in an interview with a reporter, declare! that thcre is danger that President Cleveland will not live through nis term unles9 there is a ehange in his mode of living. Dr. Sowers, siz months before Mr. Manning's illness, made the Mune prediotion with regard to the Secretary, and advised a friend to wam him of his danger. Dr. Sowers says: "President Cleveland is a large, fleshy man, andsince he carne to the White House has gained enormously in flesh. Now, when he lived in Búllalo it was his habit to take long walks. Since he carne here, howevcr, he has abandoned every form ot exercise save carriage-ridíng. That is of little or no use, with the springs now in use and the smooth streets for whioh Washington is famous. The President is a man who works with his head a great deal ; is, in tact, an intense brain-worker. He is, in other words, a plodder, and his brain is consequently fllled with an ezcess ot blood. What ís the resnlt? He works with his head, eats enormously. and fails to exercise kis muscles; his blood-vessels are weakesed. and it is only a question of time when, in a Bomcnl of excitement, he bursts a bloodvesseJ. I teil yon, at the rate President Cleveland is now living there is great danger that he wil) not live throughout his term. Somethlng should be done to bring him to realizo hia danger and take the proper steps to prevent the result which will surely ensue it he tails to take proper exercise."

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