The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-11-19
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How Careless Oversight Brought
About the Most Serious Re-
suits, and How it Might
Haze Been Avoided.
The Importance of Attention to
the Details of Life.

sanitary and scientific principles Thous-
ands OF dollars had been expended in drain
age, plumbing and ventilation. The sur
roundings were healthful, the air was pure,
and yet an epidemic of diphtheria swept |
away family OF young and beautiful chill
dren. 1t was the theory of the physicians |
that the house was filled with malaria. |
which always invites diphtheria, and, skep- |
teal 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, bafil ed, when by accident
they examined the furnace fresh air box,
and a few feet from its opening, in a neigh
boris lot, they discovered mass of purify
ing garbage. The mystery was explained.
The malaria had found an entrance through
the "fresh" air hue, and three loved ones
had persisted because 'some body had blum
dered" The same result was seen at Prince
ton College, seven students losing their lives
by the faulty drainage of the college grounds.
Thes 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 survives, it is the
duty OF every man to acquaint himself with
the methods of prevention and cure OF lnu-
ences 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 obsti-
nate chronic disorders. Not many years ago
a celebrated physician of London discovered
what is known as Bright's desease of the kid
news. While NEST of the characteristics of
this dreadful malady have been known, yet
| one of its most peculiar features is of recent
| discovery, i. e. that it produces general de-
rangement of the tissues, and involves other
organs of the body long before the kidneys
themselves seem to be affected. There is no
pain in the kidneys nor in their vicinity.
The water may not be albuminous; there
may be no casts and yet Bright's desease
may exist and disorder the entire system.
| Prof. VIM. II. Thompson, NJ. D., OF the
chair of Materia Medica, in the University
of the City OF New York, in a recent lecture
before the students of Bellevue College Hos
pital, says 'Bright's disease has no symptoms
of its own, but has the symptoms of every
other disease you can think Of" Albumer
and casts may or may not be present; nor i:
the specific gravity an absolute and infalli
bic test. DIR. Thompson says kidney diseas
is probably the commonest cause of death il
this climate among adults, more so thai
even consumption, but it is very deceptiv,
disease. If a man breaks limb he will ex
pect pain from the injured member; il bul
let crashes into the body he will at least sufl
er pain in the wounded part, but in disease
of the kidneys he will suffer most in othe
organs of the body. These sufierings ar
only the effects, the cause is behind them
and if that cannot be removed there can b
no cure of the effects. Some of the common
: est ailments of humanity are the sure symp
toms of Bright's disease. When the kidney
! have been disc ased for certain time ther
will occur strange disorders in the hCaC
throbbing headaches, disturbed vision: tn
, memory loses Its power. These are second
airy symptoms of Bright's Disease.
Again, the lungs are a favorite field c
operations, and diseased kidneys produc
pleurisy, bronchitis with or without cough
great palenoss, sudden and strange attack
2 of asthma and the splitting of blood. Th,s
are secondary effects of Bright's Disease.
The heart, in the effort to force blood int
the diseased organs, which are swollen b
reason of kidney disease, becomes exhauste
hardened, or enlarged, or valvular diseas
q follows with great distress under the brea,
r bone. These are secondary symptoms c
I Brsght's Disease.
: DIR. Geo. johnson, great authority, Owe
: 20 years ago pointed out that whatever di.
: ease affects the kidneys produces the sam
effect in the liver, and the purging of bloc
nausea, vomiting of bile and food, indigesi
, ion, constipation, piles, dizziness, persistel
diarrh9a coming on suddenly to a porso
+ who has always been robust are certain Sc,
n ondary symptoms OF Bright's Disease.
e Having made a tour OF the body and fin,
e ing no other organs which it can destro
d then the disease returns to the kidneys; Il
/ l. 1. al. l.
full of brickdust and ropy; casts appear a
bumen is abundant; then come great muscl
lar relaxation and nervous prostratior
e great pufIs appear under the eyes the coun
r enance is pale, and wears an expression
: fright commissions ensue, the fatal diarrho
or pneumonia sets in and death is the en-
I These declarations are the warnings of me
: of high authority in medical science, whol
|, we cannot DISPUTE if we would. We cXpec
when our physician visits our bed -chambe
! | he will come with the possibility of healin
but there is no disease which he approach,
Y with the certainty of failure, like Bright
Z Disease. Is there no hope of cure? Mus
. this great malady increase the number of il
victims at the rate of % per cent. year an
: We be powerless to prevent it? DIR. Hollan
says all medical practice is experimental
and that any remedy that cures, is entitle
{ to the confidence and patronage OF the pee
pie The only criterion of excellence is sue
$ cess, and, he SAYS, this is the basis OF popu
| lar Judgment The doctors admit that the
: can do nothing for person in the tolls {
Bright's Disease; but happily, the oftimC
I wiser school of independent Investigators Ina
not so failed. Anew years ago well-llnow
medical practitioner found the vegetable e
, ements which diseased kidneys and live
! needed as a food and restorer, and KNOWN
5 how widely these diseas prevailed. he sol
r the formula to Mr.. III. III. Warner, OF Rocl
J ester n. Y. This gentleman began its mar
! ufacture on most extensive scale, and L
: day Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cur
is used more generally than any other know
compound. The manufacturers OF this rem
, edy know, from the unsolicited testimony {
, hundreds OIL cases cured of the worst form
OF Brights Disease, that it is an almost nj
solute SPECIFIC, based upon new and prove
theory OF treatment for every form OF kidne
and liver disease, and they are ready I
prove to any one that they make no clair
, that others cannot verify BY their own eS
, perience. Indeed, the best physicians pr,
scribe it, and it is everywhere conceded I
be one OF the greatest discoveries moder
; medical science has given the world TIL
following items are the facts of science an
authority:
First-More persons are afflicted with O
die OF Bright's disease than any other on
disease except consumption. authority
Drs. Roberts and Thompson1
Seccond-The disease has no certain SWIM
toms OF its own, revealing itself through dis
orders in other organs Roberts, Thompson
and Johnson].
Third-"While the medical fraternity
10th to acknowledge itself bafied, 1t canno
be denied that with the exception of one pro