Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — SCIENTIFIC TRUTH [ARTICLE]

SCIENTIFIC TRUTH

Regarding the Functions of an Important Organ, Of Which the Public Knows but Little, Worthy Careful Consideration. To the Editor of the Scientific American: Will you permit us to make known to the public the facts we have learned during the past eight years, concerning disorders of the human Kidneys and the organs which diseased Kidneys so easily break down.f You are conducting a Scientific paper, and are unprejudiced except in favor of Truth. It is needless to say , no medical Journal of'‘Code” standing would admit these facts, for very obvious reasons. 11. K WARNER & CO., Proprietors of “ Warner's Safe Cure.”

That we may emphasize and clearly explain the relation the kidneys sustain to the general health, and how much is dependent upon them, we propose, metaphorically speaking, to take one Irom the human body, place in the wash-bowl before us, and examine it for the public benefit You will imagine that we have before us a body shaped like a bean, smooth and glistening, about four inches in length, two m Width, and one in thickness. It ordinarily weighs in the adult male, about five ounces, but is somewhat lighter in the female. A small organ? you say. But understand, the body of the average size man contains about ten quarts of blood, of which every drop glasses through these filters or sewers, as they may be called, many times a day as often as through the heart, making a complete revolution in three minutes. From the blood they separate the waste material, working away steadily night and day, sleeping or waking,.tireless as the heart itself, and fully of as much vital importance; removing impurities from sixty-five gallons of blood each hour, or about lorty-nine barrels each day, or 9,125 hogshead a year! What a wonder that the kidneys can last any length of time under this prodigious strain, treated and neglected as they are? Wo slice this delicate organ open lengthwise with our knife, and will roughly describe its interior. \Ve find it to be of a reddish-brown color, soft and easiiy torn; filled with hundreds of little tubes, short and thread-like, starting from ttie arteries, ending in a little tuft about midway from the outside opening into a cavity of considerable size, which is called tho pelvis, or, roughly speak ng, a sac, which is for the purpose of liokliug the water to further undergo purification before it passes down from here into the ureters, and so on to the outside of the body. These little tubes arc the filters which do their work automatically, and right here is where the disease of the kidney first begins. Being tho vast amount of work which they are oenged to, from tho slightest irregularity in our habits, from cold, from higli living, from stimulants, or a thousand and one other causes which occur every day, they become somewhat weakened in their nerve force. What is the result? Congestion or stoppage of the current of blood in the small blood vessels surrounding them, which become blocked; these delicate membranes are irritated; inflammation is set up, then pus is formed, which collects in the pelvis or sac; tho tubes are at first partially, and soon are totally, unable to do their work. The pelvic sac goes on distending with this corruption, pressing upon the blood vessels. All this time, remember, the blood, which is entering the kidneys to be filtered, is passing through this terrible, disgusting pus, for it cannot take any other route! Stop and think of it for a moment. Do you realize the importance, nay, the vital necessity, of having the kidneys in order? Can you expect, when they are diseased or obstructed, no matter how little, that you can have pure blood and escape diseasel It would be just as reasonable to expect, if a pest-houso were set across Broadway and countless thousands were compelled to go through its pestilential doors, an escape from contagion and disease, as for one to expect the blood to escape po lu~ tion when constantly running through a diseased kidney. Now, what is the result? Why, that the blood takes up and deposits this poison as it sweeps along into every organ, into every inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone, from your head to your feet. And whenever, from hereditary influence or otherwise, some part of the body is weaker than another, a countless train of diseases is established, such as consumption, in weak lungs; dyspepsia, where there is a delicate stomach; nervousness, insanity, paralysis, or heart disease in those who have weak nerves. The heart must soon feel the effects of the poison, as it requires pure blood to keep it in right action. It increases its stroke in number and force to compeusa’e for the natural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to crowd the impure blood through this obstruction, causing pain, palpitation, or an out-of-breath feeling. Unnatural as this forced labor is, the heart must soon falter, becoming weaker and weaker, until one day it suddenly stops, and death from apparent ‘•heart disease” is the verdict. But the medical profession, learned and dignified, call these diseases by high-sounding names, treat them alone, and “patients die, for the arteries are carrying slow death to the affected pari, constantly adding fuel brought from these suppurating, pus-laden kidneys, which here in our wash-bowl are very putrefaction itself, and which should liavo been cured first.

But this is not all the kidneys have to do; for you must remember that each adult takes about seven pounds of nourishment every twenty-four hours to supply the waste of the body which is constantly going on, a waste equal to the quantity taken. This, too, the kidneys have to separate from the blood with all other decomposing matter. But you say], “My kidneys are all right. I have no pain in the back.” Mistaken man! People die of kidney disease of so bad a character that the organs are rotten, and yet they have never there had a pain nor an ache! Why? Because the disease begins, as wo have shown in tho interior of the kidney, where there are few tierves of feeling to convey the sensation of pain. Why this is so we may never know. When you consider their great work, the delicacy of their structure, the ease with which they are deranged, cau you wonder at the ill-health of our men and women? Health and long life cannot be expected when bo vital an organ is impaired. No wonder some writers say we are degenerating. Don’t you see the great, the extreme importance of keeping this machinery in working order? Could the finest engine do even a fractional part of this work without attention from the engineer? Don’t you see how dangerous this hidden disease is? It is lurking about us constantly, without giving any indication of its presence. The most skillful physicians can not detect it at times, for the kidneys themselves can not he examined by any means which we have at our command. Even an analysis of the water, chemically and microscopically, roveals nothing definite in many cases, oveu when the kidnevs are fairly broken down. {Then look out for them, as disease, no matter where situated, to 93 per cent, as shown by after-death examinations, has its origin in the breaking down of these secreting tubes in the interior of the kidneys. As you value health, as you desire long life free from sickness and suffering, give these organs some attention. Keep them in good condition, and thus prevont (as is easily done) all disease. Warner’s Safe Cure, as it becomes year after year better known for its wonderful cures and its power over the kidneys, has done and is doing more to increase the average duration of life than all the physicians and medicines known. Warner’s Safe Curo is a true specific,mild but certain, harmless but energetic and agreeable to tho - •» sr» ■* j Take it whon sick aef a cure, and never let a

month go by if you need it, without taking a few bottles as & preventive, that the kiuneyu may be kept in proper order, the blood pure, that health and long life mav l>e vour blessing. H. H. WARNER & CO.