The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-04-14
Healthy, and Impure Blood.
BY DIR. v. CLARENCE PRICE.

Among all the fluids of the body, there is
none of more Importance than the blood. It
is this fluid which produces all the other
fluids of the body,-whch, when separated
from the blood are constantly expended to
form the solids, which solids are constantly
decomposing and wasting away. The blood
is that fluid which gives life and vitality to
every portion of ANNA ted nature; and will
likewise disseminate the seeds Of disease,
whenever it shall become charged with NOR
bid matter, and likewise be the cause direct
ly or indirectly of producing death, therefore,
upon its purity or impurity depends the pres.
ervation of health or the existence of dis.
ease The blood consists of two parts tho
one watery, Serious, or thin part,--ihe other
the thick part, or clot. when the thick part
abounds. 1t requires to be attenuated and
when the thin part abOunds, it requires con.
sistency. A free use of animal food charges
1t with humors, aud an entire vegetable diet
renders it weak and watery.
The substances produced by the decompo.
sftion of the human body are lime, carbon,
ammonia. mucus, hydrogen, nitrogen, and
carbonic acid gas with several Others. as
water, bile, &c. In order that these useless
ma terials, which have subserved their Office
In the animal economy, should be properly
eliminated from the system, the great Archi-
tect of our organization has constructed us
with numerous excretory organs, as the skin,
lungs, bowels, kidneys, &C.. The heAlthy
condition of all these excretory organs is Of
much gfeater Importance than many imagine,
tor the moment they become inefficient in
their action, torpid, irritated, or off imam
atury character, be assured that disease has
commenced In some location and requires at
tention, or gradually must the health of the
system become undermined.
From various causes, the blood may become
so depraved in character that it becomes i'm
possible for 1t to produce healthy solids and
although solids may continne tor time to
be formed from such blood, the individual
system throughout becomes weak, sickly, and
incapable Of acquiring vigor Or energy, Atten-
ded with nervousness, lassitude, deprt ssion
of spirits pains. rheumatism, &c.
II one organ OF the body be weaker In struct-
ure than another, that organ would be most
likely to become seriously diseased, in conso.
quence of its inability to resist the influence
Of diseased action, particularly as the blood
containing this morbid matter OF course cir
culates more sluggishly through diseased
and debilitated organ, than through one
which is healthy and sound, whereby time
would be given for the blood to deposit in
such weakened organ any morbid matter with
which it might be charged. If the blood be
charged with carbon and the lungs the weak
eHt OEk6uo tuCy WVAA0 DSOOA1C AAAuL4C0 AOAAW-
ed by deep seated abcesses, ulcers or vomica.
Just so with the kidneys, heart, or any por-
ton of the system which was the weak est
let the weakness arise from what cause ii
might If the blood be too highly charged
with lime and the lungs the weakest, tubcr-
cies would form in them, ae tubercles In the
lungs are formed from carbonate and phos-
plate of lime, glued together by mucus.
II the liver was weakest. hillary .cslculi
would form, and In the kidneys, urinary cal
Gull. The same conditions may take place
from bile, ammonia, or ether improper arti-
cles charging the blood, and the symptoms
In each one Of the cases be precisely alike, |
yet the conditions of the disease and the rem |
edies required for relief, are as different in |
every respect as 1t is possible to imagine. II
the blood is capable Of being charged with
lime, carbon, bile, mucus, &c., producing |
disease In the weakest organ, how 10 IL pos |
sible to compound any one preparation caps. |
BILE Of subduing, benefiting, or evcn relieving |
these various conditions from which disease
may arise? VIII any; effect cease until the
cause lie removed, and is !: possible that all
these causes can be eradicated by the same
agent? It 10 utterly impossible, aud contrary
20 well understood natural Law. None but
the most ignorant quack, or dishonest, Avari.
cious medical speculatOr, could conceive ~
such probability for one moment. No per-
son can prescribe . remedy that will purify
the blood unless he 10 capable OF knowing
what substance charges the blood that re
ders 1t impure. TIE scientific Asn--hc who