The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-04
THE LIv r.
The Unusual attention which
this Organ is now Attracting
From the American People.
I,s D~eiicate Structure and SuS-
ceptibiIity to Injury from
Wounds or Disease.

Wounds or disease.
n tho opinion of tha ancieEts the
liver was the seat Of me affections ana
% the p4s>ious. Modern research,
however ht, -hovn thus L. be an error,
and hence les at'entInn ana care haze
been bestowed on this organ than ~
the early day~ whrn i, Ma supposed =
MA, - lmpar'ant i part IL maxim. war
api cabling love. Undoubtedly th'
discovery at The sicr that the liver Is
not the seat uf tie affections. and -
.br pa.eon., has led the people. a. i
natural. t. neglect wrst formerly was
an object OF great ~ollcItnie lie, but tn
truth sin remains thai though 1t may
not be the special sea: of love ana pas
ssion. il i after ali of the greatest i'm
portance in physical health.
During the past few weeks, owing To
an event o. national interest, much
has been said and written about the
Injurious effects Of wounds in this or
gan. and according to the Surgical
History OF the War of the Rebellion.
Of tie thousands Of eases OF wounds IN
the liver, not above sixty survived,
and they We're not violent ones. The
record j. filled with recoytries from
guushot wounds in the head, the lungs
ana the pelvic region. but II Is i
miracle when II outllves even al
ordinary wound IN the liver. No other
proof is needed of the delicacy of Its
structure, nor of its extreme suscepti-
bIlity to injuries, whether violent,
like "a gunshot wound, Or as the result
-, I,a. ( c,1r.A inJurv from n
wound produces speedy results, and
though organic diseases may affect the
patient for wears, and render his life a
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 charac-
ter. When the veDous blood is circu-
lating 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 a cathartic
of the waste materials OF the food we
eat. 1t the organ is at all disc sed
these pOisOns q IN 1t, instead Of
being used as nature designed, and
with every coursing of the blood through
the iobes of the liver. the nature of
the disease is intensified, and hencea
neglect Of any disorder in this organ
is almost certain to bring on chronic
liver disease, so terrible to contemplate.
ln curing liver troubles, not only must
the organ be rid of its old complaint,
lint ut I ba a.plc tinA II nn,1St hQ nrQ
vented 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 rest ,ring the impaired
liver, give them strength sufficient to do
part OF the purifying work of the dis
abled organ. There is a peculiar de-
pendency 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 treat
ment 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
h'o 'NNh nv nh'Nh SllCd " CuIOulC
kidney diseases, and 1t is certain that
the liver cannot be restored to its right
action if the kidneys 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
kidney. and the liver.
Admitting then, that no form of
trf atmcnt can be affective which does
seek TO reach both the liver and the
kidneys at the same time, it would be
strange, inueed, if in all the researches
of this wonderful age Of scientific in
v~ention no such remedy has been found.
The d-ctor admit they have nothing
to offer, but independent scientists
have honored their learning and patti
ence, by discovering a pure vegetable
remedy whose success in the past few
years In the treatment Of kidney diff
c~ulties, shows conclusivelv TIA It it can
cure every form of known kidney
disease, and what it has done for the
kidneys it is equally abe to do and does
do for the liver, Warmers Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure vas the discovery OF =
practitioner, who proved its worth in
his own case and then gave it to the
world. 1t acts both as u food and a
restorer on the kidneys and liver SO
that when disease is cured in one of
these organs it cannot go to the otner,
bat is entirely removed from the sys-
TEN.
The symptoms OF kidney and liver
difficulties are great and unnatural
WEAKNESS. headache, belcbing of
wind and food from the stomach,
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 Claiborne, of
Williams College, las just published a
long and Interesting article on its wide
spreading prevalence. He states that
materials p~oisons appear in all local.
ties, the high and dry. the low and
damp, in the crowded city and the
roomy country, and there are 70 differ
ences as to the effects produced. Ma
laria is in the water we drink, in the
air we breathe, in the food we eat, and
while constantly and naturally %increas-
ing with the growth of the country it
is just at present affecting us, as the
epizooty did q few years ago. as a wide
spread and dangerous epidemic. Prof.
Claiborne is not an alarmist and what
he saws is confirmed by other distip-