The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-02
A Great Revelation.
Some Valuable ThsBghts Concerning Hu-
man Happiness and Timely Sag
gesti0H About Securing it.

The free and independent thought of
this age accepts statements only where
they are proven to be truth, while the
development of mental power seems
equally great in every other department
of life. The valuable inventions of the
day are counted by thousands. The in
crease 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
advancing in every direction which can
help them morally, mentally or physi-
cally. This is specially true of the hui
man body and everything which con-
Germs it, and the truths which the peo-
pie have found, even. in the last fifty
years, are simply marvellous. How re-
ally ignorant some cultured and suppo
seably scientific people were only a few
years ago, as compared with the pres
ent day, may be better understood from
a few illustrative facts. A prominent
writer prepared an elaborate essay to
prove that steamships could never cross
the Atlantic, and his pamphlet was is
sued Just in time to be carried by the
first steamer to England People once
believed that the heart was the seat of
life and health. 1t is now known that
this organ is only a pump, simply keep
ing in motion what other and more i'm
portant organs Of the body have created
and transformed. 1t was once supposed
that if a person felt a 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; 1t is now
known that a pain in the back indicates
diseased kidneys, while troubles in the
lower chest arise from a disordered liver
and not imperfect lungs. A severe
pain in the head vas once thought to
come from some partial arrangement of
the brain; it is now known that trouble
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 a matter of
PRIVATE HISTORY
thatGen. Washington was bled to death.
His last illness was slight, and caused
principally by WEAKNESS. A physician
was called who 'bled him copiously. ,
Strange to say, the patient became no
better. Another doctor was called,
who again took away a large amount of
the vital fluid. Thus in succession four
physicians drew away the life of a great
man who was intended by nature for an
old age, and who prematurely died
murdered bymalpractice-bled to death.
That was the age of medical bleed
ing"
After describing at length the offices
of the kidneys and liver, and their i'm
portant part in life, the doctor went on
to say:
"Having found this great truth, / saw
clearly the cause OF my recovery. The
simple vegetable leaf l had used was a
food and restorer to my well-nigh ex-
hausted kidneys and liver. 1t had come
to them when their life was nearly gone
and by its simple, yet powerful influ-
ence had purified, strengthened and res
tored them and saved me from death.
Realizing the great benefit which a
knowledge of this truth would give to
the world, 1 began in a modest way to
treat those afflicted, and IN erery case i
found the same