Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-07-09
Synopsis of Lecture Delivered by DE-
q. Craig Before the Metropolitan
Scientific Association.

q. Craig Before the Metropolitan
| Scientific Association.
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 de-
partmcnt Of life. The valuable inventions of
| the day are counted by thousands. The increase
of scientific study is universal. The spirit of
| inquiry in all fields is 80 marked as to cause
comment on every side, while people seem in
v, 'tigating and advancing in every direction
which can help them morally, mentelly or ply
sically. This is specially true of the human
body and everything which concerns it, and
the truths which the people have found, even
in the last 30 years, are simply marvellous.
How really ignorant some cultured and sup
| pOseably l;ientihc people were 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 carried by the first steamer that went
| to England. People once believed that the
heart wss the seat of life and health. 1t is now
known that this organ is only pump, simply
keeping In motion what other and more impOr-
tant organs of the body have created and trans
| formed. 1t was once supposed that II person
felt pain in the back, the liver was deranged;
| il a pain came in the lower chest the lungs
| now known that a pain in the back indicates
| kidneys, while troubles i'm 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 or 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. Ii is matter of
private history that General Washington was
bled to death. His last illness was slight, and
caused principally by WEAKNESS. A physician
was called who bled him copously. Strange to
| say, the patient became no better. Another
doctor was called, who again took away large
amount of the vital fluid. Thus i'm 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 by
| malpractice to death. That was the age
| cally described another period which came upon
the people, in which they assigned the origin of
| all diseases 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 il, but
who should know 1t and attend to them at once,
| continued:
"Let us look at this matter little more
closely. The human body is the most perfect
and yet the most delicate Of all created things.
1t is capable of the greatest results and it is
| 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 condition. When it is remembered
that the amount of happiness or misery we are
to have in this world is dependent upon per-
feet body, 1t is not strange that simple precau-
tons and care are not exercised? This is one
OF the most vital questions life. People may
avoid 1t for the present. but there is certain to
come time in every ones experience when it
must be faced. And here pardon me for relat-
ing little personal experience. In the year
1870 found myself losing both in strength and
health. l could assign no cause for the de-
cline, but 1t continued until f1ually called to
my aid two prominent physicians. After treat
ing me for some time they declared 1 was
suffering from Brighfs disease OF the kidneys;
and that they could do nothing more for me.
AT this time L was so weak could not raise
my head from the pillow and l tainted repeat
eddy. My heart beat so rapidly it was with
difficulty L could sleep. My lungs were also
badly involved; Icould retain nothing upon my
stOm ach, while the most intense pains In my
back and bowels caused me to long for death as
a relief. 1t was at this critical juncture that
physical longing which felt (and which
most firmly believe was an inspiratiOn) caused
me to send for the leaves Of plant had once
known in medical practice. After great diff
Guilty at last secured them and began their 7e
IL the form Of tea noticed the lessening OF pain
I was able to be about and in two months be-
came perfectly well and have so continued TO-
day. 1t was only natural that such result
should have caused me to investigate most
thoroughly. I carefully examined fields in
medicine never before explored. / sought the
Gauss OF physical order and disorder, happiness
and pain, and found the kidneys and liver to
be the governors, whose motions regulate the
entire svstem." After describing at length the
offices of the kidneys and liver, and their i'm
pOrtant part in life, the doctors went on to say:
"Having found this great truth, 1 saw clearly
the cause OF my recovery. The simple vegetable
leaf had used was food and rcstOrer to my
well-nigh exhausted kidneys and liuer 1t had
come to them when fheir life was nearly gone
and by its simple, yet powerful influence had
purified; strengthened and restored them and
savee 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 crse l found
the same happy results which had experience
ed. Not only thus 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 improving and their strength cOntin-
ually increasing. So universal, where used,
was fhis true, that determined the entire world
should share in its results, and l therefore
placed the formula for its preparation in the
hands of Mr.. H. H. Warner, Of Rochester, N.
Y; gentleman whom had cured OF severe
kidney disease, and who, by reason of hi, per-
sonal worth, high standing and liberality in
endowing the Astronomical observatory and
other public enterprises has become known 10
the entire country. This gentleman at once
began the manufacture OF the remedy on Almost
extensive scale, and to-day Warmers Safe Kid
ney and Liver Cure, the pure remedy that
saved my lire, Is known and used in all parts
Of the continent. am aware that a prejudice
exists toward proprietary medicines, and that