The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-21
THE LIVER.
The Unusual Attention which this Organ il
now Attracting from the Amer
lean People.
Its Delicate Structure and Susceptibility to In
jury from Wounds or Disease

4
shown this to be an error. hence less atten-
ton and care have been bestowed on this
organ than in the early days when it was
supposed to play SO important part in
in making war and cajoling love. I'm
doubtedly the discovery of the fact that
the liver is not the seat of the affections,
and of the passions, has led the people,
as is natural to neglect what formerly was
an object of great solicitude, but the truth
stiH remains that though it may not be
the special seat of love and passion, It is
after all of the greatest Importance in ply
steal health.
| During the past few weeks, owing to an
event of national interest, much has been
said and written about the curious effects
of wounds in this organ. and according to
the Surgical History of the War of the
| Rebellion, of the thousands of cases of
| wounds in the liver, not above sixty sur
vived, and they were not violent ones. The
record is filed with recoyeres from gun
shot wounds in the head, the lungs and the
pelvic region, but it is miracle" when
one outlives even an ordinary wound in
the liver. No other proof is needed of the
| delicacy of its structure, nor of its extreme
| susceptibility to injuries, whether violent,
like gunshot wound, or as the result of
disease. OF course injury from wound
produces speedy results, and though or
ganic diseases may effect the patient for
years, renderIhis life long continued
burden, the same end is eventually reach
ed.
The structure of the liver is delicate and
yet simple. 1t is composed of two lobes,
which lie directly under the right lung.
When the venous blood is circulating from
the various parts of the body to the lungs,
it passes through this organ, and is there
| relieved of its rank poisons part of which
are used for digestion and part for ca
thartic of the waste materials of the food we
eat If the organ is at all diseased these
poisons remain in it, instead of being used
as nature designed, and with every cours-
ing of the blood through the lobes of the
liver, the nature of the disease is intensified,
and hence neglect of any disorder in this
organ is almost certain to bring on chronic
liver disease, so terrible to contemplate
In curing liver troubles, not only must the
organ be rid of its old complaint but, at
the same time, it must be prevented from
contracting other diseases, and the agency
used must have such power with the kid
neys and lungs (the other two purifiers of
the blood that il will while restoring the
impaired liver, give to them strength suf-
ficient to do part of the purifying work of
the disabled organ. There is
peculiar dependency between the kidneys
and liver, and no remedy can be of benefit
which does not act upon both at the same
time. The reason why so little success has
hitherto been reached in the treatment of
liver disease is because the philosophy of
treatment has been lame and the remedies
employed have been inadequate. 1t is
conceded fact that until within the past few
years there has been no known remedy for
chronic kidney diseases, and it is certain
that the liver cannot be restored to its right
action if the kidneys are affected. It is a
fact that when tho liver is diseased the kid
news are also troubled; hence, it follows
that liver diseases are hard to cure chiefly
because the doctors know of no agency
which viii at one and the same time oper-
ate on both the kidneys and the liver.
Admitting then, that no form of treat
ment can be effective which does not seek
to reach both the liver and the kidneys at
the same time, it would be strange, indeed,
ace of scientific invention no such remedy
had been found. The doctors admit they
have nothing to offer, but Independent sci
entists have honored their learning and
patience, by discovering pure vegetable
| remedy whose success in the past few
wears in the treatment of kidney difficult
| ties, shows conclusively that it can cure
every form of known kidney disease, and
what it has done for the kidneys it is
equally able to do and does do for the
liver. Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure was the discovery of practitioner
who proved its worth in his own case and
then gave ii to the world, 1t acts both as
food and restorer on the kidneys and
liver so that when disease is cured in one
of these organs it cannot go to the other
but is entirely removed from the system
The symptoms of kidney and liver diff
culties are great and unnatural WEAKNESS,
headache, belching of wind and food from
the stomach, constipation, piles, displace-
ments and inflammation of the sexual or
gans of women, sallow countenance,
skin reruptions, and the especially fatal
complaints of the hot season. These trou-
bles are caused principally by malaria,
which is, at the present time, becoming so
great an evil in this land, so much so that
President Paul A. Chadbourne of Williams
College, has just published a long and in
teresting article on its spreading pre-
valence He states that malarial poisons
appear in all localities, the high and dry
the low and damp, in the crowded city and
the roomy country, and there are no. differ
ences as to the effects produced. Malaria
is in the water we drink, in the air we
breathe, in the food we eat, and while con
stantly and naturally increasing with the
growth of the country, it is just at present
affecting us, as the epizooty did a few
years ago, as wide spread and dangerous
epidemic. Prof Chadbourne is not an
alarmst and what he says is confirmed by
other distinguished medical authorities.
What, therefore, can be the cause for
this terrible increase of malaria in all parts
of the states and territories? Unquestion
ably the drinking water used in every por
ton of the land is the most active agency
for carrying malaria into the system. This
water may be clear; but it has become pois-
oned by inf1ltration through the vaults, |
cesspools and barnyards in the country and
other impure agencies in the city. Hereto
fore the Western States and territories and
almost the entire South has been consid- |
cred the field of malaria, owing doubtless, to
o ard