The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-26
A T NEGLECT.
How Careless Oversight Broughi ABOUT
the Most Serious Results, and How
it Might Have Been Avoided.
The Importance sf Attention 10 the Details
Of Life.

Early last spring the elegant mansion
of enc OF New York's wealthest CAPT
talists, situated on a beautiful hill in
New Jersey, RAJ turned into house OF
mourning. 1t had been constructed on
the most approved sanitaryand scientific
principles. Thousands of dollars had
been expended in the drainage, plumb
ing and ventilation. The surroundings
were h~ealthful, the air was pure, and
yet an epidemic of diphtheria swept
away q family of young beautiful child
rem. 1t was the theory OF b physicians
that the house was dlled with malaria,
which always invites diphtheria. and,
skeptical as the father was, he institut-
ed q rigid examination. Every closet,
pipe and drain was found to be perfect,
and they were about to give up, baffled,
when by accident they examined the
furnace fresh air box, and q few feet
from its opening, in a ~neighbor's lot,
they discovered a mass of putrefying
garbage! The mystery was explained.
The malaria had found an entrance
through tho "fresh" air iue, and three
loved ones persisted because ''somebody
had blunderedln The same result was
seen at Princeton college, seven students
losing their lives nv the family DRAINAGE
of the college grounds. These occur-
ences were observation-disclosures Of Provi-
dence. - thew were The result Of Main
carelessness
Life Is a constant struggle for exist
ence- and as the fttest always survives.
IL ia the duty of every man to acouaint
himself with the methods of prevention
and cure of influences which would
hurry him to the grave. There is much
donbt nowadays as to what. for in
stance. causes malaria. but there is no
doubt that it is the basis of the most
Obstinate chronic disorders. Not many
years AGO a celebrated physician of LON
don discovered what is known as
Bripht,s disease of the kidneys. While
most OF the characteristics of this
dreadful malady have been known, vet
one Of its NEST peculiar features is of
recent discovery, |. e.. that it PRODUCES
general deranpelnent of the tissues. and
involves other organs of the BODY long be-
fore the kidnevs themselves seem To he
affected. There is no pain in the kid
nor In their vicinity. The water
NAV not be aIbuminous: there NAV be
no casts. and vet BriQht's disease NAV
exist and disorder the entire system.
Prof. VIM. II. Thompson. M. d.. of
the chair of Materia Medica. in the
of the city of New York, in
a recent lecture before the students of
Bellevue college hospital. Jaws .Brjeht,s
Disease has no svmptoms of its own.
but has the SYMPTOMS of every other
disease Won can think off, Albumen
and casts NAV or NAV not be present:
nor is the speci6c gravity an absolute
and iufallibie test. DIR. THOMPSON saws
kidney disease il probably h common-
eat cause of death IN this climate among
more SO eyen than CONSUMPTION.
Init II is a very deceptiye disease. If a
man breaks a limb he will expect pain
in the Injured member. If 4 bullet crash
es into the body he will at least suffer
pain in Inc wounded mart Int in dis.
eases of the kidnevs he will suffer most
IN the other organs of the body. These
sufferinps are only the effects. the cause
is behind them. and il that cannot be
removed there can be no cure of the ef-
fects. Some of the commonest ailments
of humanity are the sure SYMPTOMS Of
Brirht's disease. When the kidneys
have been diseased for a certain time
there will G strange disorders iu the
head. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS headaches. Wis.,
ion: the memory loses its pover These
are secondary symptoms of . Bright,s
Disease.
Again. the lungs are a fayorite field
of operations, and diseased kidneys pro-
duce pleurisy. bronchitis. 1 with or With
out cough, great paleness, sudden and
attacks Of asthma. and splitting