Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-05-13
A GREAT REVELATION,
Some Valuable Thoughts Concerning
Human Happiness and Timely
Suggestions About Securing 1t.
synopsis OF Lecture Delivered by
DIR. Chas. Craig Before the Met
ropOlitan Scientific Asso-
,ciatiOn

The free and independent thought O
TINS age accepts statements only wher
they are proven to be truth, while tn,
development of mental power seem
equally great in every other depart
ment OF life. The valuable invention
OF the age are counted by thousands
The increase of scientific study is uni
yersal. The spirit of inquiry in al
fields is so marked as to cause
! COMMENT ON EVERY SIDE,
While people seem investigating and ad
yancing in every direction which cal
help them morally, mentally, or physi
cally. This is specially true Of the hu
man body and everything which con
Germs it, and the truths which the peo
pie have found, even in the last fifty
years, are simply marvellous. How real
ly ignorant some cultured and suppose
ably scientific people were only a 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 pamphletwas issued
just In time to be carried by the first
steamer that went to England. People
once believed that the heart was the
seat of life and health. 1t is now
known that this organ is only pump,
SIMPLY keeping in motion what other
and more important organs Of the body
have created. and transformed. 1t was
once supposed that if person felt a
pain in the back, the liver was de.
ranged; If a pain came in the lower
chest the lungs were effected and con-
sumption was near; it is now known
that pain in the back indicates dis
eased kidneys, while troubles in the
lower chest arise from disordered
liver and not imperfect lungs. A Sc
we're pain In the head was once thought
to come from some partial deranee-
ment of the brain; it is now known
that troubles in other parts of the body
and away from the head, cause head
aches and that only by removing the
cause can the pain be cured. It is a
matter of
PRIVATE HISTORY
that Gen. Washington was bled to
death. His last illness was slight, and
caused principally by weariness. A
physician was called, who 'bled him
copiously.' 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 a great man who was intend
ed by nature for an old age, and who
prematurely died-murdered by NAL
practice-bled to death. That was the
age of medical bleeding.
The speaker then graphically de-
scribed another period which came up
on the people, in which they assigned
the origin of all diseases to the stomach,
and after showing the falsity of this
theory, and the kidney and liver were
the causes of disease, and that many
people are suffering from kidney and
liver troubles to-day who do not know
it, but who should know it and attend
to them at once, continued:
''Let us look into 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 greatest results, and it is liable to
the greatest disorders. 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 it is remembered
that the amount of happiness OF mis-
cry we are to have in this world is de-
pendent upon perfect body, is it not
strange that simple precautions and
care are not exercised? This is one of
the most vital questions of life. Peo-
pie may avoid it for the present, but
there is certain 20 come time in
everyone's experience when it must be
faced"
"And here pardon me for relating Il
little personal experience. In the year
1870 found myselflosing both strength
and health. | could assign no cause
for the decline, but it continued, until
finally / called to my aid two promi-
nent physicians. After treating, me
for some time they declared was suf-
fering from Bright's disease of the kid
neys, and that they could do nothing
more for me. At this time / was so
weak | could not raise my head from
the pillow, and 1
TAINTED REPEATEDLY.
My heart beat so rapidly it was with
difficulty could sleep. My lungs
were also badly involved; ] could re-
tain nothing upon my stomach, while
the most intense pains in my back and
bowels caused me to long for death as
a relief. 1t was at this critical juncture
that physical longing which felt land
which most firmly believe was an in
spiration) caused me to send for the
leaves of plant / had once known in
medical practice. After great difficult
ty I at last secured them and began
their use in the form of tea. / noticed
a Iessening of the pain at once. / be-
gan to mend rapidly; in FIVE weeks /
was able to be about, and in two
months / became perfectly well and
have so continued to this day. 1t was
only natural that such a result should
have caused me to investigate most
thoroughly. l carefully examined
fields in medicine never before ex-
plored. / sought the cause of physical
order and disorder, happiness and
pain, and l found the kidneys and liver
to be the governors, whose motions reg
ulate the entire system"
After describing at length the office
of the kidneys and liver, and their i'm
portant part in life, the doctor went on
to say:
Having found this great truth, /
saw clearly the cause of my recovery.
The simple vegetable leaf had used
was a food and restorer to my we'll
nigh exhausted kidneys and liver. 1t
had come to them when their life was
nearly gone and by its simple, yet
powerful influence had purified,
strengthened and restored them and
saved me from death. Realizing the
great benefit which a knowledge of
this truth would give to the world be-
gan In modest way, to treat those af
hicted and n eUeTy case found the same
HAPPY RESULTS
which / had experienced. Not only
this but many, who were not conscious
of any r.hysieaI fror1h1a hfft who at NV