Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-18


those of the present day are usually the mental equals
or superiors of the ones who address them Rev
DIR. Tync. of New York, when theological student,
supplied church in a neigsboring town, and on MS
yav to preach one morning met an aEedcolo man.
| We'll. Uncle, do YOU ever 90 to hear the young
preacher?' asked the uniedged doctor. No, Mas
81 replied the negro dis chile dom let none o dem
students practi. on him The darkey had begun to
think.
..The free and independent thought of this age ac-
cents statements only where they proven to be
TRUTH while the development of mental power seems
equally great in every other department of life The
valuable inventions of the day counted by thous-
auds The increase of scientific study is UNIVERSAL
The spirit of inquiry in all field. is marked as TO
cause.
COMMENT ON EVERY SIDE,
while people seem investigating and advancing III
every direction which can help them morally, men,
tally or physically.
Tbs is specially true of the human body and every
thing which concerns land the truths which the PEG
have found, even in the last fifty years. are simply
marvellous. How really ignorant some cultured ana
supposedly scientific people were only Il few years
ago as compared with the present day, may be bet
Ter understood in few illustrative facts. y prom
ncnt writer prepared an elaborate essay to prove
that steamships could never cross the Atlantic, ana
his pamphlet was issued just in time to be carried by
the first steamer that went to England People once
believed that the heart the seat of life and health
II is now known that this organ is only pump,
simply keeping in motion what oher and more i'm
portant organs of the body have creared and trans
formed. 1t supposed that if person felt a
pain in the back, the liver was deransed it pain
came in the lower chest the lungs were affected and
con sumption was near; it is now known that pain
in the back indicates diseased kidneys while trouble
in the lower chest arise from disordered liver and
not imperfect lungs. severe pam in the head was
once thought come from some partial arrangement
o. the brain il is now known that troubles to other
parts of the body and away from the head, cause
headaches and that only by removing the cause can
the pain he cured. 1t is matter of
PRIVATE HISTORY
that Gen. Washington was bled to DEATH His last
illness was slight. and caused principally by weari-
ness A physician called who 'bled him copious-
w. Strange to say, the patient became no better.
Another doctor was called who again took away a
large amount of the vital fluid. Thus in succession
four physicians drew away the life of great man
who was intended by nature for an old age, and who
prematurely ded-murdered by mapractice-bled to
death. That the age of medical beedng!'
The speaker then graphically described another
period which came upon the people, in which they
assigned the origin of all diseases to the stomach.
and after showing the alsty of this theory and that
the kidneys and liver the of disease, and
that many people are suffering from kidney and liver
troubles today who do not know it, but who should
know it and attend to them at once, continued:
'Let us look at this matter a little more closely.
The human body is the most perfect and yet the most
delicate of all created things. 1t is capable of the
greae7t results and it is liable the greatest dis.
orders. The slightest causes sometimes seem to
throw its delicate machinery out of order while
the most simple and common-sense care restores
and keeps them in perfect condition. When il
is remembered that the amount of happiness or
| misery we are to have in this world is dependent
upon the perfect body is il not strange that simple
and not exercised! This is one
of the vital questions of life People may avoid
it for the present, but there is certain to come time
| in every ones experience when it must by faced
s'And here pardon me for relating little personal
experience. In the year 1870 found myself losing in
decline but it continued, until finally called to my
| aid two prominent physicians. After treating me
| for some time they decided was suffering from
Brights disease of the kidneys, and that they could
| do nothing more for At this time so weak
I could not raise my head from the pillow and
TAINTED REPEATEDLY.
| Nv heart beat rapidly it with difficulty
! could sleep My lung were also badly involved;
| could retain nothing upon my stomach, while the
| most intense pains in my back and bowels causet
me too long for death as relief. 1t was at this crit
| cal juncture that physical longing which fell
| (and which most firmly believe al inspiration
sed to send for the leaves of plant had
known in medical practice. After great difficulty
at last secured them and began their in the form
of tea. | noticed lessening of the pain at once;
began to mend rapidly; in five weeks was able tt
| be about and in two months became perfectly wei
and have continued to this day. 1t was onl,
natural that such a result should have caused me Il
investigate most thoroughly. | carefully examine
| fields in medicine never before explored. | sough
the cause of physical order and disorder, happnes
and PAIN and found the kidneys and liver to be thu
governors, whose motions regulate the entire sys
tenn.
After describing at length the offices of the kidney
and liver, and their important part in life, the docto
went on TO say:
"Having found this great TRUTH / saw clearly thu
| cau.e of NV recovery The simple vegetable leaf
AL ,,SaIx nd n my wall 1iul
| exhausted kidneys and liver. II had come to then
when their life was nearly gone and by its simpl
yet powerful influence had purified, strengthened
| restored them and saved me from death. Realizin,
the great benefit which knowledge of this truti
would give TO the world began in modest way. {,
treat those afflicted and in every case found tn
same
| HAPPY RESULTS
which had experienced. Not only this but many
who were not conscious of any physical trouble bu
| who at my suggestion, began the of the remedy
which had saved my life, found their health steadily
improving and their strength continually increasing
So universal where used. was this true that deter
mined the entire world should share in its results
and therefore placed the formula for its preparation
in the hands of Mr.. ii. H. Warner of Rochester n
| Y, gentleman whom had cured of a severe kid
disease and who BY of his personal worth
high standing and liberaity in endowing the Astro
nomical Observatory and other public enterprises
has become known and popular to the entire country
This gentleman at once began the manufacture Q
the remedy the most extensive scale, and TODAY
remedy that saved my life, is known in all parts
the continent.
Il am aware prejudice exists toward proprietar,
medicines, and that such prejudice is too often wei
founded. but the value of pure remedy is less be
cause it is proprietary medicine justifabl,
prejudice exists toward quack doctors bu, il RICH
ha; this prejudice should extend toward all the doc
tors who are earnestly and integently trying d.
their duty? Because Warmers Safe Kidney ant
Liver Cure saved my life before il became propre
ary medicine is it reasonable suppose that it viii
not cure others and keep still more from sickness
now that il is sold with a government stamp on III,
wrappers Such theory would be childish
The doctor then paid some high compliments Il
American science. and closed his lecture as fol
lows:
"How to restore the health when broken and how
to keep the body perfect and free from disease mus
ever be mans highest study. That offhe creates
revelations of the present day has been made in as
pertaining the true seat of health TO be in the kidneys
and liver, all scientists admit and can but fee
the discovery which have been permitted to make
and which l have described to you. is destined
to prove the greatest best and most reliable friend
those who suffer and long for happiness as well a.
those who desire to keep the joys they possess