Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1888 — STRUCK BLIND. [ARTICLE]

STRUCK BLIND.

The Deadly Poison that Blighted the Optic Nerve. ■Rochester Union end Advertiser.] Our reporter was very much struck with a coaverssuon between two well-kuown citizens, a short time ago. “1 notice you wear very strong eye-glasses.* “Yes, yee; I am a perfect slave to my goggles. it is hard lor me to understand why one’s eyesight laths when all other faculties appear to toe in good condition. Even the young appear to lo.se their eyesight.” -I question very much the theory and the old uouon that poor light, fine print, eta is responsible for it.” “it is well you may. If you consult an oculist for eye treament, you w.U find he is almost sure* to analyze the fluids passed before he Will commence treatment; one once told me that half of the failing eyesight was attributable to disease of tne kidneys, because of their inability to expel the uric acid from the system.” -How is that?” “1 do not know. He claimed that failing eyesight was one of the most prominent symptoms of advanced kidney and Bright’s disease. ” Becoming more interested our reporter thought he would carry on investigations still further, and called upon an institution where sevoral piominent physicians are employed, and asked the question: “Why is it that uric acid or kidney poison affects the eyes?” One of them answered, “It does not affect the eyes any more tnan any other organ. It is one of the symptoms of kidney disease. The system becomes saturated with uric acid, and, as a result, the weakest organ is the first to suffer. It may be the lungs, heart, brain, or any other organ; it generally affects many of the other organs, and the person so affected may call it gerferal debility, or premature old age, when in reality it is out the effect of uric acid, continually poisoumg the system, gradually consuming the patient It is for this reason our remedy cures so many persons of what are ordinarily called diseases, which in fact are only symptoms. Wo cure the cause, and the cause cures the effect” “Then you cure blindness, do you?” “I will say yes, if you wish to put it as broad as that, and yet wo are not entitled to the credit. When we restore the kidneys to health, they in turn restore the failing eyesight. Our remedy restores the kidneys to a healthy action, and they cause the cure, and so it iB with many of the diseases that we cure, which in reality are but symptoms. For instance, N. b. Sparks, of Rochester, says, ‘I had lost the use of one eye, and the .other was rapidly failing, caused by impure blood. I took Warner’s safe cure to purify my blood. Hardly expected it to restore my eyesight, but it liasdone so.’” W. A. Bargy, of this city, says, “My little daughter seven years old complained some two years since of inability to see, and we noticed that she stumbled over things while walking about the house. I looked at her eyes and found them almost white. This bo alarmed me that I consulted a physician, who said it would be necessary to have an operation performed upon them. To this I oould not consent, but allowed him to give her several treatments. She grew worse and wasted to a mere skeleton, until a doctor more honest than the rest, advised Warner’s safo enre, and we began its use. I noticed improvement at once, and gradually she regained her health. ” Mrs. Emma A Densmore, Washington, D C., had her eyesight suddenly fail her, so she was unable, as she says, to read even the largest print, or recognize friends on the street. After a few bottles of Warner’s safe cure, her eyesight began to return, and continuing its use, she was completely restored. Uric acid has a special liking lor the optic nerve, and it is no uncommon thing for the eyesight to begin to fail as the kidney disorder advances, while the other organs remain in apparent good health for a longer period, or until there is a general giving way of the system. Then physicians blandly pronounce the malady general debility, or call a symptom a disease, that was the mosi prominent before death claimed its victim. They may call it apoplexy, paralysis, consumption, pneumonia, blooa poisoning, impoverished blood, malaria, rheumatism, pleurisy—nevertheless, it is kidney disease, all the same, under another name. “Why all this deception?” “Because the so-called medical fraternity have no preparations that can euro kidney disease, especially when it has become advanced, and they are ashamed to acknowledge it, and many of thorn are too hidebound to .their code to use a prescription and a specific for the kidneys, because it is advertised, and the proprietors refuse to expose their formula. That is exactly as it is, in as few wordi as I can give it. ” “Thanks. You have no objection to rnj publishing this interview?” “None, whatever. We have no secrets here, except our formula, ”