Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — WHAT SCIENCE SAYS. [ARTICLE]

WHAT SCIENCE SAYS.

The '«• Fearful and Wonderful ” Mechanism of the Human System GraphicaUy Portrayed. I _ fin the editorial columns at the New York Analyst, H. Lasting, H. 1)., editor, writes the following beautiful description of the laboratories of the human system. We think we have never read a finer or more trustworthy one,] , “Man is the greatest of all chemical laboratories. Magnify the smallest cell of the body, and what a factory is spread before the eyes, countless chambers in which are globes of air, masses of soli# matter, globules of dying liquid; a flash comes and the whole is consumed and needful heat is carried into every part of the system. Electrical foroes also generate and are oonveyed to the brain, the muscles and the various nerve centers. “In another set of a million chambers we see various gases and vapors. By chemical action these are changed and purified in the lungs and the skin. The blood we often say is a great living river. In its current are masses which the air in the lungs did not affect; blocks of chalk; slabs of tartar; pieces of bone-ash, strings of albumen; drops of molasses, and lines of alcohol, How are these waste masses disposed off Begin where you will in this great stream you must come to the purifying places of the system. Here all is activity and an invisible force reaches out into the stream, seizes and carries this-mass of waste into vast trenches, thence into a smaller reservoir, and finally into a larger reservoir, which regularly discharges its contents. This separation of lime, uric acid, and other waste material front the blood, without robbing it of a particle of the life fluid, passes human comprehension. In health this ofoud-puriiying process is carried on without our knowledge. The organs in which it is done are faithful servants whose work is silent as long as health remains. “People strangely wait until pain strikes a nerve before they will realize that they have any trouble. They do not know that pain concerns chiefly the exterior, not the interior, of the body. A certain set of nerves .connect these blood-purifying organß with the brain They may not gnaw ana bite as does the toothache~or a scratch, but they regularly, silently report When these organs are failing, these nerves indicate it by drawing the blood from the face and cheek, leaving the lip and eye blanched, by sending uric acid poison into the smallest veins, the Bkin then becoming gray, yellow, or brown They also prevent the purification of the blood in the lungs, and cause pulmonary difficulties, weariness and pain Who enjoys perfect health, especially in this land where wo burn the candle in ono mass? The athlete breaks down in the race; the editor falls at his desk; the merchant succumbs in his counting-room. These events should not have been unexpected tor nature long ago hung out her ‘lanterns of alarm. ’ When the * ‘accident’ finally comes, its fatal effect is seen in a hundred forms; either as congestion, chronic weakness, as wrong action, as variable appetite, as head troubles, as palpitation and irregularities of the heart, as premature decay, as dryness and harshness of the skin causing the hair to drop out or turn gray, as apoplexy, as paralysis, as general debility, blood-poisoning, etc. “Put no faith, then, in the wiseacre who says there is no danger as long as there is no pain. Put no faith in the physician, whoever he may be, who says it is a mere cold or a slight indisposition. He knows little, if any, more than you do about it He can neither see nor examine these organs, and depends entirely upon experimental teats, that you can make as well as lie. “If the output is discolored or muddy, if it contains albumen, lymph, crystals, sweet or morbid matter, is red with escaped blood, or roily with gravel, mucus, and froth, something is wrong, and disease aud death are not far away. “These organs which we havfe described thus at length, because they are really the most important ones in the human system, the ones in which a large majority of human ailments originate and are susutained, are the kidneys. They have not been much discussed in public because it is conceded that the profession has little known power over them. What is wanted for such organs is a simple medicine, which can do no harm to the most delicate but* must be of the greatest benefit to the afflicted. Suqh a remedy, tried and proved bv many thousands all over the world, is Warner’s aafb cure. With those in whom disease is deepseated it is the only specific. For those in whom the Beeds are sown and the beginning of illness started it is an unfailing reliance. It mav be recommended to the well to prevent sickness and to the sick to prevent death. With its aid the great filtering engines of the system keep on in their silent work without interruption; without it they get out of gear, and then disease and death open the door and cross the threshold.” Such writing ought not only to please but to carry conviction that what Editor Lassing, M. D.,—so high an authority—says is true, and that liis counsel is worthy the attention and heed of aU prudent, right-minded people.