The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-07-14

The liver is the largest organ or gland
in the human system. 1t is the great
blood purifying or depurating machine
of our systems-the "housekeeper" of
our health. Diseases of the liver are
much more common than many people
suppose. / have observed in the dis
secting room, and in making post-mor-
TEN examinations upon the bodies of
those who have died of various diseases,
that in a larger portion of cases the liver
has shown evidence of having, at some
time, been diseased.
The sudden changes of the New Eng
land climate, the malarial influence of
= the West, and the heat of the South, as
well as the dietetic habits of the people
in this country, and other causes, all
tend to develop liver disease throughout
the United States. This is true, both
of man and beast; as every butcher
knows that he finds the livers ef cattle,
sheep and swine diseased ten times
where he finds any other organ diseas-
ed once. Almost every one is bilious
ut some time, and many are constantly
bilious. 1t may be mere congestion of
the liver, and torpidity of it's function,
or this may result in some structural or
organic affection. The human system,
the most perfect of all the works of the
tirely healthy, it must throw Off the
waste, worn out and poisonous mate
rails as fast rs it takes on new materials
frO.l our food and drink. The food is
made into nourishing and healthy blood,
principally through the offices of the
stomach and liver. The worn out ma
terials are mostly carried out of the sys-
TEN through the liver, lungs and kid
neys. The vast importance of the liver
as a blood-purifying and eXcretory or
gan is amply proven by several most
learned German psychologists, who base
their assertions upon actual experiments
only.
The foul and morbid matter absorbed
from the various tissues and taken into
the blood, is absorbed therefrom by a
healthy liver and converted into bile,
which is conveyed into the duodenum,
or upper portion of the small intes-
tines, where IL unites with chymc (par-
TALLY digested food), completes diges-
ton, and separates the mass into refuse
matter, to be conveyed away by the in
testines, and chBie, a milky substance,
which is taken up from the intestines by
the lacteals and c!.l'ed into the blood,
in which il circulates and is carried to
every part OF the system, furnishing
those elements necessary to sustain q
healthy growth of the different organs
and parts. n healthy liver secretes
each day about two and a half pounds
of bile, which, as have observed, con-
tains great amount of waste material
taken from the blood. When the liver
becomes torpid or congestcd, il fails to
eliminate this vast amount of noxious
substance, which, therefore, remains to
poison the blood, and be conveyed to
every part of the system. What mast
be the condition Of the blood Schen al Is
Teceici'lg and retaining each day t,CO
and a hG!f pounds Of pOiSOuY Nature
tries to work off this poison through
other channels and organs-the kidneys,
lungs, skin, etc. but these organs be-
come overtaXed in performing this la
Dor, in addition to their natural func-
tons, and cannot long withstand the
pressure.
The blood, poisoned with the daily ac-
cumalated excess of bile, returns from
the liver to the heart, and the nerves of
the heart are affected, and if this cause
is long continued we get chronic irrita-
ton, undue excitement, and morbid nu-
triton of the heart, developing many
forms of Heart Disease.
In IKE manner the lungs become af-
fected. The bile-poisoned blood passes
from the upper and right cavity of the
heart to the lower cavity, thence direct
ly to the lungs, circulating through all
parts OF these most delicate organs
The tissues of the lungs are poisoned
and irritated, and invite the scrofulous
humors with which the blood is bur-
dened, by being thus irritated. In this
way, consumption, which is scrofula of
the lungs, so defined and proven by all
the most scientific authors, is establish
cd.
The blood is in a measure oXygenized
and purified by the lungs, but in this eff
fort these organs are overworked and
irritated, and the foul blood-poison may
be Bmelled in the mans offensive breath.
Nervous Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma,
and Consumption itself, are the natural
results. The lungs would not have be-
come diseased had the liver done its du-
~ by oxcreting the bile.
The impure blood not only affects the
heart and lungs, but also other impOr-
tan organs. 1t passes from the lungs
back to the upper left cavity of the
heart, thence to the lower cavity, and
thenac through the arteries and capilla-
Fies to every tissue and organ of the
system. The kidneys are among the
most important of those organs, furnish
ing, as they do, an important excretion
that of the urine. They become dis |
eased, being irritated and congested by |
the presence of bile-poisoned blood. |
The urine becomes scanty, high-colored |
and at times loaded with red deposits, |
or other diseased products, which pro- |
duce irritation of the bladder, thus add
ing another malady to the already |
lengthy catalogue of ailments.
The brain, which is the great electri-
cal center of all vitality, is unduly slim
ulatnd by the unhealthy blood which
passes to it from the heart, and il fails
TO perform its Office BEAUTIFULLY. Hence,
the dizziness, headache, incapacity to
keep the mind on any subject, impair
ment of memory, dizzy, sleepy, or ner-
vous feelings, gloomy forebodings and
irritrbility of temper. The blood ITSELF
being diseased, as it forms the sweat
upon the surface of the skin, it is so ir-
ritating and poisonous that il produces
brown spots, pimplcs, blotch-
as, and other eruptions, sores, boiIs, car
buncles and scrofuloHs tnmors. The
stomach, bowels, and other organs spo-
ken Of, cannot escape becoming Affected
sooner or later, and eostiyeuess, piles,