Things Doctors Do Not Know

There was a commotion among the doctors at a recent meeting of the MasBehusetts Medico-Legal Society, when it was fonnd that reporters for secular newspapers were taking notes. Papers hearing specially on the notoriou3 Robinson areenical poisoningcases had been announced. Dr. Holt declared that there was general ignorance of the symptoms of arnenical poisoning, and claimed that becaose of this ignorance the Robinson poisoning cases had gone on without arousing suspicions on the part of medical men. There were, he said, at least eight cases of criminal poisoning; sevea occurred within five years, and in one family, and tbe other was that of a relative. The cases were all treated by physicians of large practice, prominent in the profession, and yet no suspicion of arsenieal poisoning was aroused until an organization in which the victima were insnred tried to determine by investigation why so many persons died suddenly in this fumily. In support of his statement as to the ignorance of medical men of the symptoms of arsenical poisoning, the doctor remarked that certificates of death were given in five of the Robinson cases, as follows: pneumonía, typhoid fever, meningitis, bowel disease and Bright's (iieease. The startling disclosure of the stupid ignorance shown in the treatment of those cases is quite in keeping with the asnal indiscretion manifested by the profession in the treatment of persons who are sufferers from the slow and snbtle poison which is generated in the system from a diseased state ot the kidneyB. _ The afflicted are treated for consumption, apoplexy, for bruin and various nervous disorders, when in most inKtancea, it is shown, when too late, that the patiënt was wrongfully and ignorantly treated for a supposed disease which was, in reality, but a symptom of kidney disease, and should have been timely treated as snch by the use of Warner's Safe Cure, which is the only remedy known that can be successfully relied on in the treatment of such disease. Such exhibitionsof Btupidity by those ■who profess great intelligence in euch mattere is calculated to destroy confldence, and it can be well said that a remedy like VVarner's Safe Cure, which places the direct means of preserving health in the sufferer's hands, is far moremeritoriousthan high-priced medical advice which is generally worthless and too often based upon an erroneous opinión as to the true cause of illness. Human lifeis just a littletoo precious to the average individual to be sacriflced to the b'gotry or ignorance of others."