Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — DEATH IN THE WATER. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN THE WATER.

Is the Element We Drink Decimating the People? How a Universal Menace to Health May be Disarmed. A few years ago tho people in a cortniTscctkiu lu'oue of the loading cities of the Slate were prostrated with a malignant disease, atul upon investigation it was found that only those who used water from a famous old we.l were the victims. Professor ft A. Latlimoro, analyst of tlio New York btato Board of lluultli, Upon analyzing w..ter from tins well, louud it moredeadiytliau tho city sewage! Tho filling up of tho old well stopped tho ravages of the Uiroasa Not long since tbe writor noticed while some men were making an excavut on for a largo building, a stratum of dark-colored earth running from near the surface to hard pan. There it took another course toward a well near at hand. The water from this well hat for years boon tainted with tho drainage from a receiving vault, tho percolations of which had discolored tho earth! Terrible! A similar condition of things exists in every village an t city vluro well water is used, and though tho filtering which t:ic 11 uids roceivo in passing throng.i the earth may give Ihtm a clear appearance, yet the parson anil disease remains, though the water may look novel - bj clear. It is still worse with the farmer, for the drainage from the barn yard and tho slops from Uiu kitchen ovoutually find their way into the l&nnly welL The same condition of things exists in our largo cities, who e water supplies are rivers led by l.ttle streams that carry off the filth and drnmago from houses. This “water” is eventually drunk by rich and poor alike with great eviL home cautious people resort to the filter for purifying tins water, “but even the filter does not remove tins 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 cvcd though they do not iako out all the impurity, they soou 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 coursiug through them becomes bad, for it is now a conceded fact that ti.e kidneys are the chief means whereby the blood is purified. These organs are fined with ihous iuds of hair-tike tubes which drain the impuritios from tho blood, as tho sewer pipes drain impurities from our houses. If a sewer pipe breaks under the house, the sewago escapes into tho earth und fills the houso with poisonous gas; so if any of the thousand and ono little hair-like sewer tubes of the kidneys break down, the ontire body is affected by this awful poison. It is a scientific fact tuat the kidneys have few nerves of sensation; and, consequently, disease may ex st in these organs lor a long time and not be Buspeetod by tho individual It is impossible to filter or t ike the death out of the blood when tuo least derangement exists in tlieao organs, and if the blood is not filtered then the uric acid, or kidney poison, removable only by Warner’s safe cure, accumulates iu the system and attacks any organ, producing nine out of ten , 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, Waller’s safe cure, a remedy that has received the highest recognition by scientific men who have thoroughly investigated the character of kidney derangements. They may not toll 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 these delicate organs undoubtedly does produce much of the decay and disease which eventually terminate in tho fatal Bright’s disease, for tlfis diseaso, alike arilouj!; the drinking men, prohibitionists, the tobacco slave, the laborer, tlio merchant, and the tramp, works terrible 'devastation every year. It is 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 lieadacneß, but the kidney when diseased struggles on for a long time, and the fact of its disease can only be discovered by tho aid of the microscope or by the physician who is skillful enough to trace the most indirect effocts iu tlie system to tho of these organs, as the pr,mo cause. The public is learning much on this subject, and when it comes to understand that the kidueys are the real health regulators, as they are tlio real blood purifiers of tlio system, they will escape an infinite amount of unnecessary suffering, and add length of days and happiness to their lot.