The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-03-14
A Plea for the Liver.

The best abused organ in the human
body is, uudoustcdly, the Lircr.
Does your mouth taste badly in the
morning? Is your stomach "sour ?''-
"Oh you're bilious-too much bile in
the system, you know. Take a blue pill
aud you'll soon be all rightI'
Does your head feel dali and ache
''oTer the eyes y Are you "blue" and
grumpy-or dyspeptic or neuralgic-or
troubled with dizziness, or "see specks, -
or don't feel very we'll yourself p
Your liver is torpid-ihat's what's the
matter with you. A blue pill will straigh-
ten you out in no time y
And SO this over worked gland, with a
double duty to perform, is blamed for
what it does do, aud what it doesn't do /;
for doing too much and for doing too lit
tie, and is punched and spurred, accused
aud abused, in manner that none but a
poor, spiritlcss drudge would submit to.
The fact is, we set harder task than
making brick without straw. We ask it
to make bile without blood, and punish
it with poisons when it fails to do so.
The younger Flint, professor of Ply.
siology in the Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, New York, has laid the Liver
and its owners under obligations to him
for ali time, by teaching US what is the
true function and Office of this, the larg
est gland in the body, and the one most
universally found in all animals. 1t was
through his studies and experiments that
it was first clearly shown what the JiIe is
and what its uses are.
Briefly, the waste matter Of the brain
and nerves is one of the essential mater
ials out of which bile, to the extent in
health Of two and half pounds day, is
ufactured. This waste nerve matter
with other refuse, is erecretcd from (tak-
en- out Of the blood by the liver, trans
formed into bile and poured into the in
testines to assist in digestion and to pre-
vent constipation and fatulency.
But the production OF this waste goes
on in the brain, two or three feet from
the liver, and in every other part of the
body wherver a nerve flament reaches.
and the only way the liver can use this
waste is by having it brought by the blood
to its workshop. Manifestly, if the cir
culation Of the blood is imperfect, the
manufacture of bile will be limited, and
then, usually, we pitch into the liver-a
blue pill, or dose of calomel, or of pod
ophyllin.
Nor is the insufficient production of
bile, and the consequent imperfect diges
tion, constipation, and fatulence, all the
evil. This waste matter of the nerves
and brain, if not thoroughly and prompt
y carried off in the circulation. acts as
an irritant and poison to the tissues in
which it remains, aud hence headaches
and neuralgia, or aching ofthe ncr0cs.
Now, if there is any one fact more clear
ly understood and admitted than another.
in the wonderful and complex operations
of the living body, it is that there can be
no vigorous, or even negatively healthy
circulation of the blood without a vigor
Gus tonic condition of the muscles. And
this vigorous, healthy, tonic condition of
the muscles can only be attained by their
exercise or use. And so it is clear why
sedentary persons suffer more from their
livers than persons of active habits. 1t
is, also, clear that so long as some persons
must lead sedentary lives and be debar-
red from active and difused exercise,
such persons must suffer, unless some
substitute for difused exercise be attain
able
Ten minutes Cumulative Exercise,
once a d,y, will do more to secure an
open hePatic duct (and so freer char
ity),-a vigorous circulation n the por-
tai system (and SO more active love for
the neighbor) and a healthy Liver (and
thus brighter hope for the future than
all the anti bilious pills ever peddled
MORAL: If you rould avoid Bilious
ness and its attendant imps, let your Liz
er alone and attend TO your Muscle
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