Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-27
A HUMAN BAROMETER.
The Real Relation Between the Hu
man Body and the Weather Scien-
tificaIiy Explained.
Scientific american.

human necessity is the National Weather
Bureau at Washington. Experience has
shown that eighty-six per cent. of the pre-
dictions of the signal service are accurate;
and these predictions are unquestionablY
of the greatest advantage to the seaman,
the agriculturalist and the entire COM
mercial world. The service has proven
its success by its usefulness, for in past
times the facilities for foretelhng atmos-
pheric changes were meagre indeed. The
only indications our fathers had Of COM
ing changes In the weather were aching
limbs, twinging joints or painful corns.
These indications, though crude, were
usually correct. and hence naturally sug-
gest the enquiry as to the relation between
the human system and the weather. The
body is unquestionably an excellent bar
ometer. It foretells changes in the at
mosphere long before they occur, and this
fact has been taken advantage of by ply
sicians who, when all other agencies fail,
to prescribe change of air, thus hoping
the body may find an atmospheric condi-
tion better suited to its needs. And yet
the real relation between the human body
and the weather has never been fully un-
dereteod, nor has there ever been, until
now, a correct explanation of what rheu-
atmosphere really is 1t was originally
thought by many to be a trouble in the
Joints, and as such was treated in the most
strange, not to say, ridiculous manner.
This theory became dispelled when the
same trouble attacked the muscles, and
the feeling then prevailed that it was
purely a Muscular disorder. But this
idea was found to be too narrow, and now
it is universally conceded that rheuma-
tism is blood disease. And what a ter
rible disease it is. 1t often comes with
out warning and prostrates the system
with agony. Again its beginning is gra-
dual, and its growth slow, In its acute
form 1t manifests itself in every conceiv-
able shape and always accompanied by in
tense pain. At one time it is inf1amma-
tory, and another neuralgic. Sometimes
it assumes the form Of gout, and again
that of pleurisy or lum6ago but in what
ever manner it appears it is terribly pain
full and always to be dreaded. The pain
and annoyance of rheumatism are increas-
ed by its great danger, for it is liable TO
attack the brain or heart at any moment,
thereby causing instant death. Indeed,
nearly every case of heart disease with all
its dreadful suddenness which has ever
occurred, can be traced more or less to
rheumatic causes. In its chronic form it
stiffeEs the joints, contracts the muscles,
undermines the health and ruins the life.
II frequently attacks men and women who
are apparently in perfect health. Indeed
1t is as greatly to be dreaded as any posi-
bic form of physical woe.
But. however severe its effects may be,
the exact cause of the blood trouble has
been an undecided question, and it is only
h hn oct fhar loniaIa,,
upon the subject has been reached. In
order to fully determine what the cause
of the rheumatic disorders really was,
certain authorities sent letters of inquiry
from Washington to the leading practic-
ing physicians of the land, and these in
quiries were responded to quite generally
thus furnishing data of great value to
science and mankind. The views held by
the doctors are of a varied nature, but so
overwhelming a proportion hold TO one
belief as to leave but little doubt that it is
the correct one. This belief, briefly stat
ed, is that uric acid in the blood causes
rheumatism, and that it is only by remov-
ing this poisonous acid that rheumatic or
neuralgia troubles in all their terrible
forms can be cured. This being true,
the important question arises: "How
does this poisonous uric acid get into the
blood, and how can it best be removed ?"
! Uric acid is waste material of the body
which the kidneys should carry out, but
! because they are weakened they cannot
throw from the system. Restore the kid
neys and you restore the power that will
! force the uric acid from the system and
| thus Danish the rheumatic agonies which
it causes. This is reason; it is science.
| No one whose kidneys are in perfect con-
dition was ever troubled with rheumatism,
and no rheumatic sufferer, nc matter how
slight the pain may be, has perfect kid
neys. The conclusion of this truth is in
evitable ; perfect kidneys mean freedom
| from rheumatism.
| When rheumatism has manifested it.
self in any special part of the body, at
that part of the body. As a result the
pain has departed but the disease
has remained, lying subtly concealed and
ready to break out at some expected mo-
ment. Checking the pain in any single
| locality only scatterg the disease through
the system, when, if the seat of the disor-
| der, which are the kidneys, were reached,
a complete cure would be the result. The
way, therefore, to expel this rank and
poisonous acid before it assumes any in
! fammatory or chronic form is by keeping
the kidneys in absolute health. This is
no easy thing to do, and no means has,
until the past few years, been known
which would successfully reach and affect
these great organs. At last, however,
scientists have discovered that the leaves
| of a tropical plant, previously but little
known to science and unknown to medi-
cine, possessed marvellous qualities adapt
ed for the kidneys. These leaves have
been skilfully combined in the remedy
now known as Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure. 1t is, up to the present time,
the only known preparation that acts so
directly upon the kidneys as to efectually
cure the various dangerous forms of kid
ney disease, and hence remove all uric
acid from the blood AS result, the
cures it has been the means of performing
are really very remarkable. Indeed,
there are thousands OF persons Ia America
to-day who owe their restoration TO health
and entire freedom from rheumatism to
this simple yet powerful remedy, which ia
| known universally, manufactured in
Rochester, n. Y. ard sold in every drug
store in the land.
From the doctors in the various cities
| of tbs United States who have certified
! over their own signatures to the scientific
statement that uric acid is the cause of
rheumatism, are a large number of Chi
cago and St. Louis physicians, among
them being DR.. Adolph Uhlemeyer, DIR.
VIM. Webb, DR.. John NJ. Frank, DR.. Ed
win t. Webster, DIR. Benjamin f. Whit
more, DR.. VIM. T. Richardson, DR.. Ro-
bert T. Atkinson, DR.. Thos. F. Humbold,
DR.. William NJ. McPheeters, DIR. Will
lam johnson, DR.. Isaac n. Love, DIR.
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