The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-07
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How cariess Oversight Brought About the
Most Serious Results, and How 1t
Might Have Been Avoided.
The Importance of AttentiO 10 the Details
OF Life.

Early last spring the elegant mansion
of one OIL New York's wealthest capt.
~talIsJs, ILuated on a beautiful NIL III
New Je, sey, WAS turned into u nous OF
mourning. 1t had been constructed on
tue most approved sanitary and scientific
principles. Thousands OF dollars had
been expended in the drainage, plumb
ing and ventilation. The surroundings
were healLhful, the air was pure, and
yet an epidemic of diphtherIa swept
away a family of young beautiful child
rem. IL was tue theory of The physicians
that the house was filled with malaria,
winch always invites diphtherIa, aud,
skeptical as The father Vas, he lnstitut-
ed a rigid examination. Every closet,
! aud dram was found to be perfect,
and they were about TO give up, baflled,
when by accident they examined tue
furnace fresh air box, II a few feet
from Its opening, In a neighbor'5 lot,
tuey discovered a mass OF putTefylnB
garbagel The mystery was explained.
Ine malaria had found an entrance
through the "freshp air flue, aud three
loved ones persisted BECAUSE somebody
had blunderedr" The same result was
seen aJ triuceton college, seven students
losing their lives by Ii faulty drainage
of he college grounds. These occur
rences were neutrality-suspicious. of Provj-
dence," they were the result of plain
carelessness.
Life is a constant struggle for exist
ence, and rs the tLtest always survives,
IL ID the duty OF every man To acqualnJ
himself with the methods of prevention
and cure OF Influences winch would
hurry him To the grave. There is much
! ,An,It p.NtAlI.u ~ ~ RI UI.A4f for IN
stance, CAUSES malaria, but there is 10
doubt that 1t Is the basis of tile most
obstinate chronic disorders. Not many
years ago u celebrated physician Of Lon
don discovered what is known as
Brlght'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 discovery, /. e, That IL PRODUCES
general arrangement of the tlSsues, and
Involves other organs Of the body long De-
fore the kidneys themselves seem " be
affected. There Is no pain i'll Tie KID
ueys nor In their vicinity. The water
may not be albuminUus; there may be
no casts, and yet Brignt's disease may
exist aud disorder tue entire system.
Prof. VIM. II. Thompson, M. d., OF
the chair of Materia Medica, i'll tile
university of the city of New York, Ill
u rec4ut lecture before the students vi
Bellevue college hospital, says ''BrIght's
Disease has no symptoms of its own,
but has the symptoms OF 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 common
lat n,,a ~ Ia.fh IN bta rl iD1ufa "a u,nDu
adults. more 30 even than consumption,
but it Is q very deceptive disease. If II
man breaks u limb he will expect pain
in the injured member; if a bullet crash
es into the body he will at least suffer
pain in the wounded part, but in dis
eases of the kidneys he will suffer most
IN the other organs of the body. These
sufferings are only b effects, the CAUSE
is behind them, and if that cannot be
removed there can be no cure of the de-
fects. Some of the commonest ailments
of humanity are the sure symptoms oil
Bright's disease. When the kidneys
nave been diseased for a certain time
there will occur strange disorders in the
head ,throbbing disturbed headaches, WIS.,
ion; the memory loses its power. These
are secondary symptoms of Bright's
Disease.
Again, the lungs are a favorite field
of operations, and diseased kidneys pro-
duce pleurisy, bronchitis with or with.
out cough, great paleness, sudden and
strange attacks of asthma, and 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, be-
comes exhausted, hardened or enlarged,
or ~valvular disease follows, with great
distress under the breast bone. These
are secondary symptoms of Bright's
Disease.
DR.. George johnson, agreatauthority,
over 20 years ago pointed that what
ever disease affects the Kidneys produces
the same effect in the liver, and the
purgirg of blood, nausea, vomiting OF
bile and food, indigestion, constipation,
piles, dizziness, persistent diarrhea
coming on suddenly to a person who
has always been robust are certain sec.
ondary symptoms of Brigbt's Disease
Having made a tour of the body and
finding no other organs which 1t can
destroy, then the disease returns to the
kidneys; the back aches intolerably, the
urine is dark, full of %brickdust and
ropy; casts appear, albumen Is abund
ant; then come great muscular relax
alton and prostration; great
puffs appear under the eyes, the count
enance is pale and wears an appearance
of fright, commissions ensue, the fatal
diarrhea or pneumonia sets in, and
death is the end. These declarations
are the warnings of men of high auth
ority in medical science, whom we can.
not dispute If we would. We expect
when our physician visits our bedcham-
Der, he. will come with the possibility of
healing, but there is no disease which
he approaches with the certainty of
failure like Bright's Disease. Is there
no hope of curep Must this great ma
lady increase the number of its victims
at the rate of 20 per cent. a year, and
we be powerless to p%reventp DIR. Hol-
and says all medical practice is expert
mental, and that any remedy that cures
Is entitled to the confidence and patron
age of the people. The only criterion
of excellence 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 Dis
ease; but happily, the oftimes wiser
school of independent investigators has
not so failed. A few years ago a well
known medical practitioner found the
vegetable elements which diseased kid
neys and liver needed as a food and re-