Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — SCIENTIFIC TRUTH [ARTICLE]

SCIENTIFIC TRUTH

Regarding the Functions of an Important Organ, s’ . - ---V— — I or Which the Public Know* but Worthy Careful Consideration. Will you • permit v* to make known to the public the fact* we hare teamed during ihe past eight years, concerning disorder* of the human Kidneys and the organs which diseased Kidneys so easily break, down? You are conducting a Scientific paper, and are unprejudiced except in favor of i'RUTH. ft in,needless to say, no medical Journal of “Code” standing would admit these facts, for very obvious reasons. II tl. WARNER A CO., Proprietors of “ Warner's Safe Cure.” That we may emphasize and clearly explain tho relation the kidneys auiiam to the general health, and-how much 14 dependent upon them, we propose, metaphorically speaking, to take 0113 trout tho human pody, placj in the wash-bowl befuro u->, and exa.mue it for the public bouetit. You will imagine that we have before us a body shaped into a bean, smooth and glistening, about four inches in length, two in width, and one in thickness. It ordinarily woigns 111 the adult male, about five ounces, but is somewnat lighter in the female. A smalt organ? you say. But understand, tho body of tho average size man contains about ten quarts of blood, of which every drop passes through these filters or sewers, as they may bo called, many times a day as olteu as through the heart, making a complete revolution in three minutes. From tne 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 forty-nine barrels eaeh 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? We slice this delicate organ open lengthwise with our knife, and will roughly describe its

interior. We find it to be of a reddish-brown color, soft and easily torn; filled with hundreds of •little tubes, short and thread-like, starting from the arteries, ending in a little tuft about midway from tho outside opening into a emty of considerable size, which is called the pelvis, or, roughly speaking, a sac, which is lor tho purpose of holding the water to further undergo purification before it'passes down from liera into the ureterß, and so On to the outside of the fiodv. These little tubes are the filters which do tlieir work automatically, and right here is where the disease of the kidney first begins. Doing the vast amount of work which they are obliged to, from the slightest irregularity in our habits, from cold, from high 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 stoppago 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; the tubes are at first partially, and soon are totally, unable to do their worn. The pelvic sac goes on distending with this corruption, pressing upon the blood vessels. All this time, remember, the blood, which is entering the k dneys to be filtered, is passing through this terrible, disgusting pus, for it cannot tako any other route! Stop and think of it for a moment. Do you realize the importance, nay, tho 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 disease? It would be just as reasonable to expect, if a post-house 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.lotion when constantly running through a diseased kidney. Now, what is the result? Why, that the blood takes up and deposits this poison as it Bweeps 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 bo'dy fs weaker than another, a countless train of diseases is established, such as consumption, in weak lungs; dyspepsia, where there is a delicate stomach; nervous.ices, 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 compensate for the natural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to crowd the impure blood through this obstruction, causing tiain, palpitation, or an out-of-breath feeling. Jnuatural as this forced labor is, tho lioart must soon falter, becoming weaker and weaker, until one day it suddenly stops, and death from apparent “heart disea-o” is the verdict. But die medical profession, learned and dignified, call these diseases by liigh-souadiug names, treat them aione, and patients die, for the arteries are carrying slow death to the a ffected pa/rt, constantly adding fuel brought from those suppurating, pus-lacien kidneys, which here in our waali-bowl are very putrefaction itself, and which should have been cured first.

But tliia is not all the kidneys have to do; for you must remember that each adult takes about savon 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. Bait you say, “My kidneys, are all right I have no pain in the back.” Mistaken manl 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 nche! Why? Because the disease begins, as we have "shown in the interior of the kidney, where there are few nerve* of feeling to convey tho sensation of pain. Why this is so we mav never know. When you consider tlieir great work, tho delieaoy Of their structure, the ease with ■which they are deranged, can you wonder at the ill-health of our men and women? Health and long life cannot be expected when so vital an organ is impaired. No wonder some writers say we are degenerating. Don’t you see tho great, tho' extreme importance of keeping this machinory 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 ua constantly, without giving any indication of its presence. The most skillful physicians can not detect it at times, for the kidney* thcmxclve* can not be examined by any means which we have at our command. *Even an analysis of the water, chemically and microscopically, reveals nothing definite in many cases, even when the kidneys are fairly broken down. Then look out for them, as disease, no matter where si'uated, to 93 per cent, as shown by after-death examinations, has its origin in tho breaking down of these secreting tubes in the interior of the kidneyß. As you value health, as you desire long life free trom sickness and suffering, give these organs some attention. Keep them in good condition, and thus prevent (as is easily done) all disease. Warner’s Safe Cure, as it becomes year after year better known for its wonder) ul cures and its power over tho kidneys, has done and is doing more to increase the average duration of life than all the physicians and medicines known. Warner’s Safe Cure is a true specific, mild but certain, harmless but onergetic and agreeable to tho taste. Take it when sick as a cure, and never let a month go by if you need it, without taking a - few bottles as a preventive, that the kidneys mny be kept in proper order, the blood pure, that health and long lifo may be your blessing.

H. H. WARNER W CO.

M. FizEau believes that his observations warrant the assertion that the lnminiferoos ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates, and hopes soon to an•nounce the existence of a peculiar' variation in the magnetic force of magnets, apparently in relation with the direction of the earth’s motion through space, calculated to throw lighten the immobility of the ether and its relations to ponderable matter.

A. Building with a History. Among all the public buildings in New York City there is not another that had so ancient and eventful a history as the hall of records, or Registers office, in City Hall Park. It wo* erected about the middle of the last eentury, when Broadway was a counwlieu baly thellter stood on the site of the present World establishment, when Center street Was a | [ lake, William street a swamp, Canal j street a river, and the Bowery a lone- ! ly lane, running up through huckleberry bushes. During the Revolutionary war this j building was the chief British prison j for distinguished patriots. Hero Captain Nathan Hale, the intrepid Yankee, was confined after his capture with a plan of the British defenses of Long Island in his shoes, and in the public common adjoining, exactly where the City Hall now stands, lie was hanged as a spy. Hero that tough old rebel, Ethan Allen, of Tieonderoga fame, was imprisoned after his capture while trying to tako Montreal with thirty men; and the treatment which he and others received caused tho building, which now stands near the City Hall station of the elevated road, to be regarded by the patriots with about the same abhorrence os attached to Andersonville after the rate war. When the British evacuated New York in November, 1783, the jailer, Cunningham, having won the same infamous reputation as the Confederate jailer Wirz, was asked by his patriot prisoners, “What is to become of us?” “ You can go to the devil!” shouted Cunningham, as he flung tlie keys into the middle of the floor, and made off. It was forty or fifty years after that before the bastile of the Revolution was remodeled and the bell transferred to the Bridewell. It now rings prisoners to rations and prayers over on Blackwell’s Island.

The Need of Out-of-Door Life. What these young woman need is out-of-door life. Not exercise in the “gym,” but tennis, croquet, rowing, horse-back riding, all in light-weight clothes and with loosened corset strings. Nowhere, writes an enthusiast, is beauty so perfect as in the saddle. If woman, conscious of loveliness, convinced that the gods have appointed her a trustee of beauty for the delectation of the sterner sex and the discomfort of her fellow-women, has a keen perception of the environments most favorable to her beauty, she certainly will not hesitate to seek the saddle as her throne, and the soft, warm, melting landscape for a background. As the glove fits so must the habit. Then, well mounted, with a free rein in a firm bridle hand, she is off with a dash. Good! The color comes, the eyes sparkle, and the tresses would prove truant to the comb. And this is the sunlight. Here ninety per cent, is to be attributed to nature and ten per cent, to the artistic tailor. Get away from half lights and dreary five o’cloek teas. Mount and be off. Dasli around the park in pursuit of happiness. Into the saddle, young maids and matrons. You will then rival the stars, to be followed in your course by the eyes of honest admiration. —Cincinnati Com-mercial-Gazette.

Artificial Complexion. It is a relief to see a woman, be she young or old. whose complexion is not artificial. Time was when the woman whose face was powdered and rouged, whose lips were painted and eyebrows stenciled, was viewed with social suspicion and mentally placed where she no doubt properly belonged. It is different now, very different. Parisian art certainly beautifies the face, but the artificiality is detected simply because it is too beautiful to be natural. It is argued that the dissipations of fashionable life, the round of gayety, late hours, luxurious eating,inadequate exercise udS fresh air -prematurely destroy youth and freshness of face, rendering recourse to cosmetics necessary. No doubt this is true, and more the pity, and one can only conjecture what manner of faces must be hid behind the masks seen on the piazza, at the table d’hote, and in the parlors. Saratoga and Long Branch abound in these frescoed women, and from a certain standpoint they are a sight to see. It is all in keeping, however, with Vanity Fair.

Equal to the Occasion. Waiter girl (to commercial traveler) -—There’s roast beef and roast duck. Commercial traveler Canvas-back duck? ” Waiter girl—Yes. Commercial traveler (facetiously)— Is it shirred down the front, with lace -cuffs turned back over the sleeves, Mary ? Waiter girl—-The same. Commercial traveler —I will try some of it, I guess. Waiter girl—Very well, sir; will you have it'with or without? .. Commercial traveler—With or without what? Waiter girl—Buttons. —New York Times.