Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-20
THE LIVER.
The Unusual Attention which this
Organ is now Attracting from
the American People.
It's Delicate Structure and SUSCEPTIBLE
ty to Injury from Wounds or Disease.

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supposed to play so important a part
in making war and cabling love.
Undoubtedly the discovery of the
fact that the liver is not the seat Of
the affections, and of the passions,
has let the people, as is natural, to
neglect what formerly was an object
of great solioitude, but the truth still
remains that though it may not be the
special seat Of love and passion, it is
after all of the greatest Importance in
physical health.
During the past few weeks, owing to
an event of national interest, much
has been said and written about the
injurious 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 survived,
and they were not violent ones. The
record is filed with recoveries from
gunshot wounds in the head, the lungs
and tho pelvic region, but it is a
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 in
jury from a wound produces speedy
results, and though organic diseases
may affect the patient for years, and
render his life long continued
burden, the same end is eventually
reached.
The structure of the liver is delicate
and yet simple. 1t is composed of two
lobes, which lie directly under the
right lung, and is OF a spongy char
acter. When the venous blood is
circulating from the various parts of
the body to the lungs, it passes
through this organ, and is there re-
lieved of its rank poisons, part of
which are used for digestion and part
for a cathartic of the waste materials
of the food we eat. IF the organ is
at all diseased these poisoas remain IN
II, instead of being used as nature
designed, and with every coursing of
the blood through the lobes of the
liver. the nature of the disease is in
tensifed, and hence a 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 ofits 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 kidneys and lungs (the other
two purifiers Of the blood) that it will,
while restoring the impaired liver, give
to them strength sufficient to do part
of the purifying work of the disabled
organ. There is a peculiar dependen-
cy 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 sue
cess 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 a 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 re.
stored to its right action if the kid
neys are affected. 1t is a fact that
when the liver is diseased the kidneys
are also troubled; hence, it follows
that liver diseases are hard to cure
chiefly because the doctors know of
no agency which will at one and the
same time operate on both the kidneys
and the liver.
Admitting, then, that no form of
treatment can be effective which does
not seek to reach both the liver and
the kidneys at the same time, it would
be strange, indeed, if in all the re
searches Of this wonderful age Of
scientific invention no such remedy
had been found. The doctors admit
they have nothing to offer, but indie
pendent scientists have honored their
learning and patience by discovering
pure vegetable remedy whose sue
cess in the past few years in the treat
ment Of kidney difficulties, 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 for the
liver. Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure was the discovery Of q
practitioner who proved its worth in
his own case and then gave it to the
world. 1t acts both as a food and a
restorer on the kidneys and liver SO
that when disease is cured in one Of
| these organs it cannot 90 to the other,
but is entirely removed from the sys.
TEN.
The symptoms Of kidney and liver
difficulties are great and unnatural
WEAKNESS, headache. belching of wind
ard food from the stomach, constipa-
ton, piles, displacements and inham-
nation Of the sexual organs Of women,
a sallow countenance, skin eruptions
and the especially fatal complaints Of
the hot season. These troubles 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 pub
hshed a long and interesting article on
Its widespreading prevalence. He
states that malarial poisons appear in
all localities, the high and div, the
low and damp, in the crowded city
and the roomy country, and there are
ne differences as to the effects pro-
duced. Malaria is in the water we
} drink, in the air we breathe. in the
| food we eat, and while constantly and
naturally increasing with the erowth
Of the country, it is just at present
] affecting us, as the episooty did few
& years ago, as a widespread and danger.