Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — Liver Complaint. [ARTICLE]

Liver Complaint.

By R. V. Pierce, M. D., of the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. x., Author of “The People*sCommon Sense Medical Adviser,” etc., etc. The Liver is the great depurating (purifying) organ of the system, and has very appropriately been termed the “housekeeper” of our health. I have observed in the dis-secting-room,and also in making post-mortem examinations of the bodies of those who have died of different diseases, that in a large proportion of cases, the liver has given evidence of having at some time been diseased. Liver affections are equally prevalent in beasts. Every butcher knows that the livers of cattle, sheep, and swine, are ten times as frequently diseased as any other organ. A healthy liver each day secretes about two and a half pounds of bile. When it becomes torpid, congested, or if, from any cause, it be disabled in the performance of its duties, it is evident that the elements of the bile must remain in the blood, thus irritating, poisoning, and perverting, every vital process. Nature attempts to rid the system of these noxious materials by means of other organs, as the kidneys, lungs, skin, etc., which become overtaxed in performing their additional labor, and are unable to withstand the pressure. The brain, which is the great electrical center of all vitality, becomes overstimulated with unhealthy blood, and fails to normally perform its functions. Hence there is dullness, headache, impairment of the memory, dizziness, gloomy forebodings, and irritability of temper. When the blood is diseased, the skin manifests discolored spots, pimples, blotches, boils, carbuncles, and scrofulous tumors. The stomach and bowels, sooner or later* become affected, and constipation, dropsy, dyspepsia, or diarrhoea, is the inevitable result. SYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT. A sallow color of the skin, ®r yellowishbrown spots on the face and other parts of the body; dullness and drowsiness, with frequent headache; dizziness, bitter or bad taste in the mouth, dryness of the throat, and internal heat; palpitation of the heart, a dry, teasing cough, sore throat, unsteady appetite, sour stomach, raising of the food, and a choking sensation in the throat; sickness and vomiting, distress, heaviness, and a bloated, or full feeling about the stomach and sides; aggravating pains in the sides, back, or breast, and about the shoulders; colic pains and soreness through the bowels; constipation, alternating with diarrhrea; pilus, flatulence, nervousness, coldness of the extremities, rush of blood to the head, with symptoms of apoplexy; numbness of the limbs (especially at night), and chills, alternating with hot flashes; kidney and other urinary Jifllculties, dullness, low spirits and gloomy forebodings. Only a few of these symptoms will be likely to be present tn an v ease at one time. 12. i THEA TMENT.—Ink.c Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, with small doses of his Pleasant Puryattve Pellets, which act as an alterative on the liver. For Liver Complaint and the various affections caused by a diseased liver, these remedies are unsurpassed. The Golden Medical Discovery does not simply palliate the disease, but It produces a lasting effect. By its use, the liver and stoneach are changed to an active, healthy state, the appetite is regulated, the blood purified and enriched, and the entire system renovated and restored to health. The Discovery is sold by druggists. R. V. Pierce, M. D., Proprietor, World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y.