The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-17

these facts in Prof. Dalton's Physiology.
Remember one thing more: The bile
Is something more than the natural phy-
SIC OF the bowels, as has heretofore been
thought by eminent medical men. Tho
bile is mostly made up of the waste mat.
ter of the blood-effete, worn-out and
injurious materials. If the liver does
not make this bile and pour it into the
intestines daily, it remains in the blood
rs poison. It poisons the blood itself,
and circulates as irritating and poison
Gus matter in the blood to every organ
in the system.
The blood, poisoned with the daily
accumulated excess of bile, returns from
the liver to the heart, and the nerves of
the heart are affected, and we have an
oppressed feeling at the heart and palpi-
tation; and if this cause is long CONT
nued, we get chronic irritation. undue
excitement, and morbid nutrition of the
heart, developing many forms of Heart
Disease
Just So with the LUNGS. The bile.
poisoned blood goes from the upper and
right cavity of the heart to the lower
cavity, and thence directly to the lungs.
circulating oil through those most de.
licate organs. The lung tissues are
poisoned and irritated, and they invite
the scrofulous humors of the blood be-
cause they are thus irritated. Hence
Consumption, which is local scrofula. so
defined and proved by Lugol and all the
most scientific authors. The lungs try
to oxygenize and purify the blood, and
they 40 1t In great measure; but they
are 0Fer-worked and irritated, and you
smell the blood-poison matter in the
mans fnn1 hraofh
asthma, Nervous Cough, and Consump
ton itself, are the results. If the Liver
had done its duty-made and excreted
that DIhE-the lungs would not have
been diseased.
just so with the BLOOD itself. It goes
from the lungs back to the upper left
cavity OF tue heart. thence to the lower
cavity, and thence through the arteries
ana caPlllarles to every organ and tissue
OF the system. Among the most impor-
tant OF those organs are the kidneys.
furnishing the urinary secretion q most
important excretion. But the kidpevs
themselves are irritated and coppested
by the presence of the bile-poisoned
blood, and they become diseased. Every
person who has had liver disease knows
that the urine is scanty, hieh-colored.
and loaded with red deposits. at times
or other diseased products. Hence. dis.
eases not only of the kidneys, but also
of the bladder.
But this is not all-far from it. The
poisonous blood goes to the BRAIN, and
affects the great electrical centre of all
vitality; and the brain, stimulated by
unhealthy blood, cannot perform its
office heaithtully. The person has dull
ness, headache, incapacity to keep his
mlnd on subject, cannot remember, has
q crowded and dizzy feeling, is sleepy,
becomes nervous, gloomy, easily irri-
tated. and often has bilious or nenraI-
gic headache.
And the blood itself becomes diseased
as IL forms the sweat upon the surface of
the skin, it is 80 irritating and no;son.
GUS that the person has discolored brown
spots, pimples, blotches, and other erup-
tlons, sores, boils, carbuncles, and other
scrofula tumors.
Disease of the LIVER itself is the M ost
common of all diseases. Tbe snddnn
changes OF the New England climate,
the malarial influence of the West. and
the heat also of the South, as we'll ns the
dletetlc habits Of the people of this
country, and other causes, all tend to
develop the Liver disease, in some of
the varied forms, throughout the United
States. This is true of both man and
beast, as every butcher knows that he
hnds the ilvers of cattle, sheep and swine
diseased ten times where he finds any
other organ diseased once. Almos! eyery
person Is bilious at some time. and MANY
are constantly bilious. It NAV he mere
congestion of the Liver and torpidity of
its function, or this may result in some
structural or organic affection. But the
Liver can never be diseased without
affecting the stomach, bowels, and the
other organs we have spoken of, and
ccostiveness, piles, dropsy, diarrhna and
impoverished blood are among the ne
cessary results.
CHRONIC DISEASES
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