The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-21
A Great Revelation.
Some Valuable Tbeusbts Concerning Hu-
man Happiness and Timely Sug-
gesten Abort SesuringiL

The free and independent thought of
this age accepts statements only where
they are 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 are counted by thousands. The in
crease of scientific study is universal.
The spirit of inquiry in all fields is SO
marked as to cause
COMMENT ON EVERY SIDE,
while people seem investigating and
advancing in every direction which can
help them morally, mentally or physi-
cally. This is specially true of the hui
man body and everything which con
Germs it, and the truths which the peo-
pie have found, ven in the last fifty
years, are simply marvellous. How re-
ally ignorant some cultured and suppo
seably scientific people were only q few
years ago, as compared with the pres
ent day, may be better understood from
a few illustrative facts. A prominent
writer prepared an elaborate essay to
prove that steamships could never cross
the Atlantic, and his pamphlet was is
sued Just in time to be carried by the
first steamer to England People once
believed that the heart was the seat of
life and health. 1t is now known that
this organ is only a pump, simply keep
ing in motion what other and more i'm
portant organs of the body have created
and transformed. 1t was once supposed
that Il a person felt a pain in the back,
the liver was deranged; if a pain came
in the lower chest the lungs were affect
ed and consumption was near; 1t is now
known that a pain in the back indicates
diseased kidneys, while troubles in the
lower chest Prise from a disordered liver
and not imperfect lungs. A severe
pain in Ire head was once thought to
come /. ON some partial arrangement of
the brlip; II isnow known that trouble
in other parss of the body and away
from the head, cause headaches and
that Only by removing the cause can the
pa'u be cured. 1t is a matter of
PRIVATE HISTORY
that Gen. Washington was bled to death.
His last illness was slight, and caused
principally by wea,iness. A physician
was Called who .bled him ~copiously.'
Strange 10 sly, the patient became no
bette-. Another doctor was called,
who ag n took awav a large amount of
the ' ri dad. ThaJjn succession four
physicians drew awsy the life of a great
man who WIS intended by nature for an
old zee, and WHO p-ematurely died
murdered by ma 'pr3ctice-bled to death.
That was the age of medical bleed
ing"
After describing at length the Offices
of the kidneys and liver, and their i'm
portant part in life, the doctor went on
to say:
"Having found this great truth, l saw
clearly the of my recovery. The
simple vegetable leaf 1 had used was n
food and restorer to my well-nigh ex-
hausted kidneys and liver. 1t had come
to them when their life was nearly gone
and by its simple, yet powerful inhu-
ence had purified, strengthened and res
torc1 them and saved me from death.
Realizing the great benefit which a
knowledge of this truth would give to
the world, 1 began in a modest way to
treat those afflicted, and in ecery case 1
found the same