The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-07-29
THE LIVER.
The Unusual Attention which This Organ Ia
now Attracting from the American
People.


now Attracting from the American
People.
Its Delicate Structure and susceptibility 10
injury from Wounds or Disease.
In the opinion of the ancicpts the
liver was the seat of the affections and
of the passions. Modern research, how
ever, has shown this to be all error, and
hence less attention and care have been
bestowed on this organ than in the
early days when it was supposed to
play SO important n part in making
war and cajoling love. Undoubtedly
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 still remains that though it may
not be the special seat of love and pas
sion, 1t is after all of the greatest i'm
portance in physical health.
During the past few weeks, owing TO
an event of national interest, much has
been said and written about the inuri-
GUS 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 land they
were not violent ones. The record is
filed with recoveries from gun-shot
wounds in the head, the lungs and the
pelvic region, but 1t is miracle ,"
when one outlives even an ordinary
wound in the liver. OF course
injury from wound produces
speedy results, and though organic dis
eases may affect the patient for years,
and render his life q 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 spongy charac-
ter. When the venous blood is circu-
lating from the various parts of the
body to the lungs, it passes through
this organ, and is there relieved of It's
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 poi
sous remain IN 1t, instead lof being
used as nature designed land with every
coursiDg 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 kidneys and lungs (the two other
purifiers of the blood), that it will,
while restoring the impaired liver,
give them strength sufficient to do part
of the purifying work of the disabled
organ. There is peculiar dependen.
cy between the kidneys and livor, 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 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 fccted. 1t is
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 once and
the same time operate on both the kid.
neys and the liver.
Admitting, then, that no form of
treatment can be effective which does
not seek 10 reach both the liver and the
kidneys at the same time, it would be
strange, indeed, il in all the researches
of this wonderful age of scientific in
vention no such remedy had been
found. The doctors admit that they
have nothing to offer, but Independent
scientists have honored their learning
and patience by discovering q pure veg
etable remedy whose success in the
past few years in the treatment of kid
ney difficulties shows conclusively that
it can cure every form of known Kidney
disease, and what 1t 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 dis
covery of practitioner, who proved its
worth in his own case, and then gave
it to the world. 1t acts both as a 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
difficulties are great and unnatural
WEAKNESS, headache, belching of wind
and food from the stomach, constipa-
ton. piles, displacements and inflama-
ton 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 ne present time, becoming so
great an evil in this land-so much SO
that President PAULA. Chadbourne of
Williams College has just published o
long and interesting article on its wide.
spreading prevalence. He states that
malarial poisons appear in all localities, |
high and dry, the low and damp, in the
crowded city and the roomy country, |
and there are no differences as to the |
effects produced.
What, therefore, can be the cause for
this terrible increase of malaria in all |
parts of the states and territories? I'm |
questionably the drinking water used |
in every portion of the land is the most
active agency for carrying malaria into |
the system. This water may be clear,
but it has become poisoned by filtration
through the vaults, cesspools and barn
yards in the country, and other impure
agencies in the city. Heretofore the
Western States and Territories and al
most the entire South have been con-
sidered the field of malaria, owing,
TO the poor drainage in many
localities and the consequent accumu-
lation of green poisonous matter.
This theory is. however. now exploded.