Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
A GREAT REVELATION.
Some Valuable Thoughts Concerning
Human Happiness and Timely Sug.
gestiOns About Securing it.
SYNOPSIS or A LECTURE DELIVERED eY DR..
GHAs. CRAIG BEFORE THE METROPOLITAN
SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION.


of mental power seems equally great in
every other department of life. The valu-
able inventions of the day are counted by
! thousands. The increase of scientific study
is universal. The spirit of inquiry in all
fields is so marked as to cause
COMMENT ON EVERY SIDE,
while people seem investigating and advanc-
ing in every direction which can help them
morally, mentally or physically. This is
specially true of the human body and every
thing which concerns it, and the truths
which the people have found, even in the
last fifty years, are simply marvellous. How
really ignorant some cultured and suppos-
ably scientific people We're only few years
| ago. as compared with the present day, may
be better understood from few illustrative
facts. A prominent writer prepared an
elaborate essay to prove that steamships
could never cross the Atlantic, and his
pamphlet was issued just in time to be car
ried by the first steamer that went to Eng
land. People once believed that the
heart was the seat of life and health.
1t is now known that this organ is only
plump, simply keeping in motion what other
and more important organs of the body have
created and transformed. 1t was once sup
posed that if person felt O pain in the
back, the liver was deranged; if a pain
came in the lower chest the lungs were affect
ed and consumption was near it is now
known that pain in the back indicates dis
eased kidneys, while troubles in the lower
chest arise from disordered liver and not
imperfect lungs. A severe pain in the head
was once thought to come from some partial
arrangement of the brain; it is now known
that troubles in other parts of the body and
away from the head, cause headaches and
that only by removing the cause can the pain
be cured. 1t is matter of
PRIVATE HISTORY
chat Gen. Washington was bled to death
His last illness was slight, and caused prin-
cipally by WEAKNESS. A physician was called
who bled him copiously.' Strange to say,
the patient became no better. Another doc
tor was called, who again took away large
amount of the vital fluid. Thus in success
sion four physicians drew away the life of a
great man who was intended by nature for
an old age, and who prematurely died-mur-
dered by malpractice-ble to death. That
was the age of medical bleeding!"
The speaker then graphically described
another period which came upon the people,
in which they assigned the origin of all dis
eases to the stomach, and after showing the
falsity of this theory, and that the kidneys
and liver were the causes of disease, and
that many people are suffering from kidney
and liver troubles to-day who do not know
it, but who should know it and attend to
them at once, continued:
Let us look at this maEter a little more
closely. The human body is the most per-
feet and yet the most delicate Of all created
things. 1t is capable of the greatest re-
suits and it is liable to the greatest disor-
ders. The slightest causes sometimes seem
to throw its delicate machinery out of order
while the most simple and common-sense
care restores and keeps them in perfect con
dition. When it is remembered that the
amount of happiness or misery we are to
have in this world is dependent upon per-
feet body, is it not strange that simple pre-
cautions and care are not exercised? This
rs one of the most vital questions of life.
People may avoid it for the present, but
there is certain to come time in every ones
experience when il must be faced.
And here pardon me for relating little
personal experience. In the year 1870
found myself losing both in strength and
health. / could assign no cause for the de-
cline, but it continued, until finally called
TO my aid two prominent physicians After
treating me for some time they declared l
was suffering from Bright's disease of the
kidneys, and that they could do nothing nj r
for me. At this time was so weak could
DOT raise my head from the pillow and.
PAINTED REPEATEDLY.
''My heart beat so rapidly it was with diff
Guilty l could sleep. My lungs were also
badly involved; / could retain nothing upon
my stomach, while the most intense pains
in my back and bowels caused me to long
for death as a relief. 1t was at this critical
iuncture that physical longing which felt
and which most firmly believe was an in
spiration) caused me to send for the leaves
of plant / had once known in medical
practice. After great difficulty at last
secured them and began their use in the
form of tea. l noticed a lessening of the
pain at once began to mend rapidly; in
i've weeks l was able to be about, and in
two months l became perfectly well, and
have so continued to this day. 1t was only
uatural that such result should have caused
me to investigate most thoroughly. l care
fully examined fields in medicine never be-
tore explored. / sought the cause of
physical order and disorder, happiness and
pain and found the kidneys and liver to
be the governors, whose motions regulate
the entire system. "
after describing at length the offices of
the kidneys and liver, and their important
part in life, the doctor went on to say:
Having found this great truth, l saw
clearly the cause of my recovery. The
simple vegetable leaf / had used was a food
and restorer to my well-nigh exhausted kid
neys and liver. 1t had come to them when
their life was nearly gone and by its simple
yet powerful influence had purified
strengthened and restored them, and saved
me from death. Realizing the great benefit
which knowledge of this truth would give
to the world / began in a modest way, to
treat those afflicted, and in every case found
the same
HAPPY RESULTS
which I had experienced. Not only this
but many, who were not conscious of any
physical trouble but who, at my suggestion,
began the use of the remedy which had
saved my life, found their health steadily i'm
proving and their strength continually in
rreasing. So universal, where used, was
Ibis true, that determined the entire world
should share in the results, and /
therefore placed its formula for
its preparation in the hands of
iir. II. Fl. Warner, of Rochester,
n Y, gentleman whom / had cured
of severe kidney disease, and
who, by reason of his personal worth, high
standing and liberality in endowing the As
economical Observatory and other public en-
.erprises, has become known and popular to