Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — DEATH IN THE WATER. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN THE WATER.

Is the Element We Drink Decimating the People? Hour » Universal Menace to Health May be Disarmed. A few years ago the people in a certain section in one of the leading cities of the State were prostrated with a malignant disease, and upon investigation it was found that only those who used water from a famous old well were the victims. Professor S. A. Lattimore, analyst of the New York State Board of Health, upon analyzing water from this well, found it more deadly than the city sewage! The filling up of the old well stopped the ravages of the disease. Not long since the writer noticed while some mail were making an excavat on for a large building, a stratum of dark-coljred earth running from near the surface to hard pan. There it took anolher course toward a well near at hand. The water from this well had for years been tainted with the drainage from a receiving vault, the percolations of which had discolored the earth! Terrible! A similar condition of tilings existß in every village and city where well water is used, and though the filtering which the fluids receive in passing through the earth may give them a clear appearauce, yet the poison and disease remains, though the water may look never so clear. It is still worse with the farmer, for the drainage from the barn yard and the slops from the kitchen eventually find their way into the family wqlL The same condition of things exists in our large cities, who-e water supplies are rivers fed by little streams that carry off the filth and drainage from houses. This “water” is eventually drunk by rich and poor alike with great evil Borne cautious people resort to the filter for purifying this water, but even the filter does not remove this poison, for water of the most deadly character may pass through this filter and become clear, yet the poison disguised is there. They who use filters know that they must be renewed at regular periods, for even though they do not take out all the impurity, they soon become foul. Now in like manner the human kidneys act as a filter for the blood, and if they are filled up with impurities and become foul, like the filter, all the blood in the system coursing through them becomes bad) for it is now a conceded fact that the kidneys are the chief means whereby the blood is purified. These organs aro filled with thousands of hair-like tubes which drain the impurities from the blood, as the sewer pipes drain impurities from our houses. If a sewer pipe breaks under the house, the sewage escapes into the earth and fills the house with poisonous gas; so if any of the thousand and one little liair-like sewer tubes of the kidneys break down, the entire body is affected by this awful poison. It is a scientific fact'tbat the kidneys have few nerves .of sensation; and, consequently, disease may exist in these organs for a long time and not be suspected by the individual It is impossible to filter or take (he death out of the blood when the least derangement exists in theso organs, and if the blood is not filtered then the uric acid, or kidney poison, removable only by Warner’s safe cure, accumulates in the system and attacks any organ, producing nine out of ton ailments, just as sewer gas and bad drainage produce so many fatal disorders. Kidney disease may be known to exist if there is any marked departure from ordinary health without apparent known cause, and it should be understood by all that the greatest peril exists, and is intensified, if there is the least neglect to treat it promptly with that great specific, Warner’s safe cure, a remedy that has rece.ved the highest recognition by scientific men who have thoroughly investigated the character of kidney derangement®. They may not tell us that the cause of so many diseases in this organ is the impure water .or any other one thing, but this poisonous water with its impurities coursing constantly through theso delicate organs undoubtedly does produce much of the uecay and disease which eventually terminate in the fatal Bright’s -disease, for this disease, alike among the drinking men, prohibitionists, the tobacco slav®, the laborer, the merchant, and the tramp, works terrible devastation every year. It m well known that the liver, which is so easily thrown “out of gear, ”as they say very readily disturbs the action of the kidneys. That organ when deranged immediately announces the fact by sallow skin, constipated bowels, coated tongue, and headaches, flout the kidney when diseased struggles on far .a long time, aud the fact of its disease can ouily bo discovered bv the aid of the microscope or by tbe physician who is skillful enough to trace the most indirect effects in the system to the derangement of these organs as tine pr me cause. The public is learning much on this subject, and when it comes to understand that the kidneys are'the real health regulators, as they are the read blood purifiers of the system, they will escape an infinite amount of unnecessary suffering, and add length of days and happiness to their lot