Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12
4 GREAT REVELATION.
Some Valuable Thoughts Concerning
Human Happiness and Timely
Suggestions About Securing It.
synopsis of a Lecture Delivered by Dr.
Chas. Craig Before the Metrop0l
itan Scientific Association.

# they are proven TO be truth, while the de-
q velopment of mental power seems equally
great in every other department of life.
The valuable inventions of the age are
1 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 add
yancing in every direction which can help
them morally, mentally, or physically.
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 fifty years, are simply marvel
Gus. How really ignorant some cultured
and supposedly scientific people were
only a few years ago, as compared with
the present day may be better understood
from few illustrative facts. A promi
nent writer prepared an elaborate essay
to prove that steamships could never cross
the Atlantic, and his pamphlet was issued
lust in time to be carried by the first steamer
that went 10 England. People once be-
lieveu that the heart was the seat of life
and health. 1T is now known that this
organ is only pump, simply keeping
in motion what other and more important
organs of the body have created and trans
formed. 1t was once supposed that If
person felt pain in the back, the liver
was deranged if pain came in the
lower chest the lungs were affected and
consumption was near 1t is now known
that pain in the back indicates diseased
kidneys, while troubles in the lower chest
arise from disordered liver and MT inn
perfect lungs A severe pain in the
head was once thought to come from
~ al dor IF ba II
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 a mat
tel of
PRIVATE HISTORY
that Gen Washington was bed to death.
His last illness was slight and caused
principally by WEAKNESS. y physician
was called who 'bled him copiously.'
Strange to say, the patient became no bet
ter. Another doctor was called. who
again took away large amount of the
vital fluid. Thus in succession four ply
sicians drew away the life of great man
who was intended by nature for an old age,
and who prematurely died-murdered by
malpractice-be to death That was the
age of medical bleeding
The speaker then graphically described
another period which came upon The peo
pie, ia which they assigned the origin Of
all diseases to the stomach, and after
showing the falsity of this theory, and
that the kidney and liver were the causes
of disease, and that many people are suf-
iering from kidney and liver troubles to-
day who do not know it, but who should
know it and attend to them at once, con-
tinued:
Let us look at this matter a little more
closely. The hannah body is the most per
feet and vet the most delicate of all Gre
aed things. 1t is capable of the greatest
results, and it is liable to the greatest dis
orders. The slightest causes sometimes
seem to throw its delicate machinery out
of order, while the most simple and com
nonsense care restores and keeps them in
perfect condition. When it is remember
ed that the amount of happiness or mis-
cry we are to have in this world is depend
ent upon a perfect body, is it not strange
that simple precautions and care are not
exercised? This is one of the most vital
questions of life. PEI pie may avoid it for
the present, but there is certain to come a
time in every ones experience when it
must be faced
And here pardon me for relating lit
tie personal experience. In the year 1870
| found myself losing both in strength
and health. | could assign no cause for
the decline, but It continued, until finally
| called to my aid two prominent physi
clans. After treating me for some time
they declared | was suffering from Rright's
disease of the kidneys. and that they could
10 nothing more for me. At this time |
was so weak | could not raise my head
IRON the pillow, and |
PAINTED REPEATEDLY.
Wy heart beat so rapidly it was with diff
Guilty could sleep. Ny lungs were also
badly involved; ! could retain nothing
upon my stomach, while the most intense
pains in my back and bowels caused me to
Iong for death as relief 1t was at this
critical iuucture that a physical longing
which | felt (and which | most firmly be-
lieve was an Inspiration 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. | noticed lessening
of the pain at once. | began to mend rap
idly; in five weeks | was able to be about,
and in two months | became perfectly vel!
and have so continued to this day 1t was
only natural that such a result should
have caused me to investigate most thor
oughlv. | carefully examined fields in
medicine never before explored. ! sought
the cause of physical order and disorder,
happiness and pain, and | found the kid
news and liver TO be the governors, whose
motions regulate the entire system"
After describing at length the office Of
The kidneys and liver, and their import
ant part in life, the doctor went on to say;
Having found this great truth, saw
clearly the cause Of my recovery. The
gmple vegetable leaf / had used was a
aoI and restorer to my well-nigh exhaust
ea sdneys and liver. 1t had come to