Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-09-21
INVISIBLE POISON.
How it Works its Way Into the Body

One OF the great ScOurges or the pres
ent year in all parts of America has
been malaria. This is trouble so
treacherOus in it's nature aud so dam
gerous in its results AS to justly cause
apprehension wherever it has appeared.
But there are 80 many erroneous ideas
upon the subject that few words are
in order at time when people are sub.
ject to malarial influences.
Malaria, which means simply bad air,
is the common name of class of dis
eases which arise from spores of decay
ing vegetable matter, thrown off from
stagnant pools or piles of vegetation
undergoing decomposition. These
spores when inhaled with the breath
or taken into the system with water
soon enter the blood and terminating
there find foothold, whereby the
whole system is poisoned and the vari-
GUS functions disordered. When the
germ theory Of disease was first advan-
ced it was supposed that these spores
were of animal nature. aad like the
bacteria in diphtheria were propagated
in the blood, but they are now con-
ceived to be Of vegetable origin, like
the fungi found Oh decaying wood OF
in cellars. The source of this state
of the air is generally swamps or
stagnant pools, which, partially dried
by the hot sund sen forth vapors loaded
with this malarial poison. These va
pors descend to the earth i'm the night,
cooled by the loss of temperature, and
breathed by sleepers are readily inhaled.
Hence persons living near stagnant
pools or marshes are liable to he affiict-
ed with chills and fever, and such local
tiles are never healthy, though they
are more so when the streams flowing
into them are pure, and also when the
water is high. Again the drainage of
houses, slaughter-houses, barns. ETC.,
are fertile.source of malaria. One will
often notice in comingintO the neighbour
hood OF one of these sluggish streams
that pass through almost every village a
most villainous smell caused by the Of
fensive refuse which communicates its
bad odor to the atmosphere, especially
on hot days. This absorbed into the
system by the lungs or taken in through
water, which also absorbs it from the
air, poisons the blood and deranges the
whole system. This poison is also de-
veloped in force in wells and springs
when they become low, and the result
of drinking these is the same as breath
ing the poisonous air. In a time of
drouth the great quantity of vegetation
that dries up in the meadows, stubble
fields and pastures, the corn fields and
forest leaves produces the same effiuvia.
On the prairies when large tracts of
prairie ground are turned over, the de-
eaying vegetation is widespread cause
of malaria.
The evils which follow malarial
poisoning are almost infinite. Disease
of a malignant and dangerous nature.
accompanied by symptoms the most
distressing are certain to manifest
themselves and life is burden 80 long
as this poison remains in the system.
The indications of malarial poisoning
are loss OF appetite, shortness of breath,
pains about the heart, wasting Of flesh
and strength, dependency, nervous
ness, chilly sensations, unaccOuntable
lassitude, dull pains in various parts of
the body, headaches. dizziness, a coated
tongue and dry mouth, night sweats,
muscular debility, putting under the
eyes, an unusual color, ordor or sedi-
ment about The fluids passed from the
system, etc. Any one of the above
symptoms may be an indication of
malarial poison in the body which
necessitates immediate and careful at
tentiOn.
But If malarial poison could not find
a Judgement in the human body, it
would be just as harmless as the oxy-
gen of the air. The great difficulty is
that, after being absorbed into the sys-
TEN, it produces distractions in the
stomach and lungs, clogs the circula-
ton of the blood, affects the kidneys,
liver and other organs, and brings on
diseases of a most dangerous character.
There is only one known way by
which these diseases may be avoided
or cured after they have once
made their appearance, and that
is by keeping the great purifying
organs of the body in perfect health.
| These organs are the kidneys and liver.
No one whose kidneys or liver are in
a perfect condition was ever afflicted
by malarial poison. And when these
organs are disOrdered, they not only
permit, but invite, these diseases to
make their inroads into the body. 1t is
now admitted by physicians, scientists
and the majority OF the general public
that one medicine, and only one whose
power has been tested and proven, has
absolute control of, and keeps the kid
neys and liver in constant health and
hence prevents malarial sickness. This
remedy is Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure, the most popular medicine
before the American people. and sold
by every druggist in the land. Ii full
ly counteracts the evil effect of ma
larial poison in the system, and not
only banishes it, but restores the mem.
bers which that poison has weakened
How well it does this can be learned
from the following:
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, June 20, 1882
Moving from the State of New York
to the western country, | was attacked