The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-19
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How Careless Oversight. Brought
about the Nest Serious Results,
and how it Might Have
Been Avoided.
The Importance Of Attention to the Details Of
Life.


was turned into house of mourning. 1t
had been constructed on the most approx
| ed sanitary and scientific principles.
Thousands of dollars had been expended
in the drainage, plumbing and ventilation.
The surroundings were healthful, the air
was pure, and yet an epidemic of diph-
iberia swept away family of young and
beautiful children, 1t was the theory of
the physicians that the house was filled
with malaria which always invites diph-
liberia, 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,
baffied, when by accident they examined
the furnace fresh air box, and few feet
from its opening in neighbor's lot, they
discovered mass Of purifying garbage
The mystery was explained The malaria
had found an entrance through the ''fresh"
air flue, and three loved ones persisted be-
cause somebody had blundered" 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 "dispensations
of Providence" they were the result of
plain carelessness.
Life is a constant struggle for existence,
and as the fittest always survive, it is the
duty of every man to acquaint himself
with the methods of prevention and cure
of influences 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 a celebrated physician of
London discovered what is known as
Bright's disease of the kidneys. While
most of the characteristics of this dreadful
malady have been known, yet one of its
most peculiar features is of recent discov
cry, 4. e., that it produces general derange
ment of the tissues and involves other or
gans of the body long before the kidneys
themselves seem to be affected. There is
no pain in the kidneys nor in their vicin-
ity. The water may not be albuminous;
there may be no casts, and Brights dis:
ease may exist and disorder the entire sys-
tenn.
Prof. VIM. H. Thompson, NJ. D., of the
chair of Materia Medica, in the University
of the City of New York, in recent lee
ture before the students of Belleville Col
lege Hospital says "Brights disease has no
symptoms of its own, but has the symp-
toms Of nearly every other disease you can
think Of" Albumen and casts may or
may not be present; nor is the specific
gravity an absolute and infallible test DIR.
Thompson says kidney disease is probably
the commonest cause of death in this eli
mate among adults, more so even than con-
sumption, but it is "a very deceptive dis
ease. If man breaks lin b he will ex-
pect pain in the Injured member, if bull
let.crashes into the body he will at~-ieast
suffer pain in the wounded part. but in
diseases of the kidneys he viii suffer most
in the other organs of the body, These
sufferngs are only the effects, the cause is
behind them. and if that cannot be re-
moved there can be no cure of the effects.
Some of the commonest ailments of hui
manity are the sure symptoms of Brights
disease. When the kidneys have been DIS
eased for certain time there will occur
strange disorders in the head, throbbing
headaches, disturbed vision; the memory
loses its power. These are secondary sym
toms of Bright's Disease.
Again, the lungs are favorite field of
operations and diseased kidneys produce
pleurisy, bronchitis, with or without
cough great paleness, sudden and strange
attacks of asthma, and the splitting of
blood These are secondary effects of
Bright's Disease.
The heart in the effort to force blood
into the diseased organs. which are swollen
by reason of kidney disease becomes ex-
hausted, hardened or enlarged, or valvular
disease follows, with great distress under
the breast bone. These are secondar
symptoms of Brights Disease.
DR.. George Johnson, a great authority,
over 90 years ago pointed out that what
ever disease affects the kidneys produces
the same effect in the liver, and the purging
of blood nausea, vomiting of bile and food,
indigestion, constipation, piles, dizziness,
persistent diarrhoea coming on suddenly TO
person who has always been robust are
| certain secondary symptoms of Bright's
Disease
Having made tour of.ihe body and
| finding no other organs Which it can de-
stroy, then the disease returns to the kid
neys; the back aches intolerabfy the urine
is dark, full of brick dust and ropy; casts
appear, albumen is abundant; then come
great muscular relaxation and nervous
| prostration; great puffs appear under the
eyes, the countenance is pale and wears an
appearance of freight, commissions ensue,
| the fatal diarrhGa or pneumonia sets in.
| and death is the end. These declarations
are the warnings of men of high authority
| in medical science; whom we cannot dis
pute if we would. We expect, when our
| physician visits out bed chamber, he will
come with the possibility of healing, but
| thee is no disease which he approaches
with the certainty of failure like Bright's
| Disease. Is there no hope of cure Must
this great malady increase the number of
its victims at the rate of 25 per cent. year,
| and we be powerless to prevent DR.. Hol-
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 ex-
| cellence is success, and, he says, this is
the basis of popular judgment. The doc
| tors admit that they can do nothing for a
person in the tolls of Bright's Disease;
but happily, the of lines wiser school
of independent investigators has not SO
| failed, A few years ago a well known
medical practitioner found the vegetable
elements which diseased kidneys and liyel
needed as food and restorer, and know
ing how widely these diseases prevailed
he sold the fomula TO Mr. H. III. Warner
of Rochester, n. i. This gentleman began
| its manufacture on a most extensive scale
and to-day Warmers Safe Kidney and
| Liver Cure is sued more generally III IN any
other known compound. The manufact
urers of this remedy know. from the unso-
licited testimony of hundreds of cases
cured of the worst form of Bright's disease
thot it is an almost absolute specific, based
on new and proved theory of treatment
| for every form of kidney and Euar d;.<A. -