Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-01
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How Careless Oversight Brought About
the Most Serious Results, and How
it Might Have Been Avoided
IMPORTANCE OF ATTENTION TO
THE DETAILS OF LIFE.

Early last spring the tleSdht hiai'toh "a
| one of NETWORKS wealthiest capitalists,sit-
uated on beautiful hill in New Jersey,
was turned into house OF mourning. 1t
| had been constructed on the most approved
sanitary and scientific principles. Thou
sands of dollars had been expended in the
drainage, plumbing and ventilation. The
surroundings were healthful, the air was
/ pure, and yet an epidemic OF diphtheria
! swept away family OF young and beauti-
. full children. 1t was the theory of the ply
/ sicians that the house was filled with ma
/ laria, which always invites diphtheria, and,
| skeptical as the father was, he instituted a
rigid examination Every closet, pipe and
| drain was found to be perfect, and they
were about to give up, batfied, when by ac'
| cident they examined the furnace fresh air
box and q few feet from its opening, in
neighbors lot, they discovered mass OF
putrefying garbage. The mystery was e1-
| planned. The malaria had found an en-
trance through the fresh" air tiue, and
| three loved ones perished because some
| body had bundled" The same result was
seen at Princeton College, seven students
losing their lives by the faulty drainage of
the college grounds. These occurrences
| were not Interpretations OF Providence.
They were the result of plain careleSsneSs.
Life is q constant struggle for existence,
and as the fttest alwayssurvives, it is the
duty of every man to acqusit himself with
the methods OF prevention and cure OF in
fuences which would hurry him to the
grave. There is much doubt nowadays as
| to what for instance, causes malaria, but
there is no doubt that it is the basis OF the
| most obstinate chronic disorders. Not
many years ago celebrated physician of
London discovered what is known as
| Brights disease of the kidneys. While most
| of the characteristics of this dreadful NAL
ady have been known, yet one OF its most
| peculiar features is of recent discovery, /.
e., that it produces general arrangement Of
| the tissues, and involves other organs Of
the body long before the kidneys them
selves seem TO be affected. There is no
pain in the kidneys or in their vicinity.
The water may not be albuminous; there
may be no casts, and yet Bright'S disersc
may exist and disorder the entire system
Prof. VIM. II. Thompson, NJ. d., of the
! Chair of Matera MediCa, in the University
of the city of New York, in recent lecture
before the students nj Bellevue College
| Hospital, saws "Bright'S Disease has no
symptoms of its own, but has the symp-
toms of every other disease you can think
Again, the lungs are Il favOritr field Of
operations, and diseased kidneys produce
plcurisy bronchitis with or without
cough, great palcncss, sudden and strange
attacks of asthma. and the splitting of
blood. These are secondary effects Of
BrightS Disease
Of" Albumcn and casts may or may not
be present nor il the specific gravity an
absolute and infalliblc test DR.. Thompson
says kidney disease is probably the com
mOncst cause of death in this climate
among adults, more so even than Consump-
ton, but il is very deceptive disease. II
a man breaks limb he will expect pain in
the injured member; if bullet crashes into
the body he will at least suffer pain in the
wounded part, but in disease Of the kidneys
no will suffer most i'll the other organs of
the body. These suifcrings are only the
effects, the cause is behind them, and il
that cannot be removed there can be no
cure of the effects. Some of the common
est ailments OF humanity are the sure
symptoms of Bright's Disease. When the
Kidneys have been diseased for a certain
time there will occur strange disorders in
the head, thrObbing headaches disturbed
vision; the memory loses its power. These
are secondary symptoms Of Brights Dis
case.
The heart in the effort to force blood
into the diseased organs which are swollen
by reason of kidney disease, becomes ex-
haustcd. hardened or enlarged, or valvular
disease follows, with great distress under
thclIbrcast bone. These are secondary
symptoms Of Brghts Disease.
| DR.. George Johnson, q great authority,
over twenty years ago pointed out that
whatever disease affects the kidneys pro-
duCcS the same effect upon the liver, and
the purging OF blood, nausea, vomiting Of
bile and food indigestion, constipation,
piles dizziness. persistent diarrhoea com,
ing on suddenly To n person who has al
WAYS been robust are certain secondary
symptoms Of Bright's Disease.
Having made tour OF the body and
finding no other organs which it can de-
strOy, then the disease returns to the kid
neyS; the back aches intOlerably, the urine
is dark, full Of brckdust and ropy; casts
appear, albumcn is abundant; then come
great muscular relaxation and nervous
prOstration; great pUffS appear under the
eyes, the Countenancc is pale and wears an
appearance Of fright, commissions ensue;
the fatal diarrhua or pneumonia sets in
and death is the end These declarations
are the warnings of men OF high authority
in medical sCicnCc whom we cannot dis
putc if we would. We expect. when our
physician visits our bed-chambcr, lac will
come with the possibility Of healing, but
there is no disease which he approaches
with the certainty of failure like Bright $
Disease. Is there no hope of cure? Must
this great malady increase the number OF
its victims at the rate Of - per cent year,
and we be pOwerless to prevent? DIR. IbDl.
land says all medical practice is expert
mental. and that any remedy that cures is
entitled to the confidence and patronage Of
the people. The only criterion Of excel
lCncc is success, and he says. this is the
basis of popular judgment The doctors
admit they can do nothing for a person in
the tolls Of Bright's Disease: hut happily,
the oftimes wiser school OF independent
Investigators has not so failed. A few years
ago well known medical practitioner
found the vegetable clements which dis
eascd kidneys and liver needed as food
and rcStorer, and knowing how widely
these diseases prevailed, ha sold
the formula to Mr.. II. IT, Warner. of
Rochester, New York. This gentleman
began its manufacture on most
extensive scale. and to-day Warner's Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure is used more gen
orally than any other knOKn compound.
The manufacturers of this remedy know,
from the unsolicited testimony OF hundreds
of cases cured OF the worst form Of Bright's
disease, that it is an almost absolute speci-
tic, based on a new and proved theory of
treatment for every form OF kidney and
liver disease, and they are ready to prove
rieroe. Indeed, the hest physicians pre-