The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-28
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How Careless Oversight Brought About
the Most Serious Results, and How
it Might Have Been Avoided.
rhe Importance of Attention to the Details
OF Life.

| the mOSt dppIOfcu odhieoiJ ohu
| principles. Thousands of dollars had
| been expended in the drainage, plumb
| ing and ventilation. The surroundings
| we're healthful, the air was pure, and
| yet an epidemic of diphtheria swept
| away a family of young beautiful child
| rem. 1t was the theory of the physicians
| hat the house was filled with malaria,
! which always invites d~iphtheria, and,
skeptical as the father was, he institute
ed a rigid examination. Every closet,
pipe aud drain was found to be perfect,
and they were about to give up, bafied,
when by accident they examined the
furnace fresh air box, and a few feet
from It's opening, in a neighbours lot,
they discovered a mass of putrefying
garbagel The mystery was explained.
The malaria had found an entrance
through the "fresh" air hue, and three
loved ones persisted because somebody
had blunderedl'' The same result was
seen at Princeton college, seven students
losing their lives by the faulty drainage
of the college grounds. These occur
| reuces were not''dispensations OF Provi-
dence,' they were the result of plain
carelessneSs.
Life is a constant struggle for exist
ence, and as the fittest always survives,
IL is the duty of every man to acquaint
himself with the methods of prevention
and cure of influences which would
hurry him to the grave. There is much
doubt nowadays as to what, for in
| stance, causes malaria, but there is no
doubt that it is the basis of the most
| obstinate chronic disorders. Not many
| years ago a celebrated physician of Lon
don discovered what is known as
Bright's disease of the kidneys. While
most of the characteristics OF this
| dreadful malady have been known, yet
one of its NEST peculiar features is OF
| recent discovery, /. e., That IL Produces
| general arrangement of b tissues, and
involves other organs OF the body long be-
fore the kidneys themselves seem To be
affected. There is 40 pain in the kid
| neys nor In their vicinity. The water
! may not be albuminous; there may be
nj casts, and yet Bright's disease may
| exist and disorder the entire system. =
Prof. VIM. II. Thompson, M. 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 hospital, says "Bright's
Disease has NO symptoms of its own,
but has the symptoms of every other
| DCGk JOo Soh hAhA O
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
est cause of death IN this climate among
adults. more so even than consumption,
but it is a very deceptive disease. If a
man breaks d 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
III the other organs of the body. These
sufferings are only the effects, the cause
is behind them, and if that cannot be
removed there can be no cure of the de-
fects. Some of the commone5t ailments
of humanity are b sure symptoms OF
Bright's disease. When the kidneys
have been diseased for a certain time
there will occur strange disorders In the
head ,throbbingd 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 Brlght's
Disease.
DR.. George johnson, a greatauthority,
over 20 years ago pointed out that what
ever disease affects the kidneys produces
the same effect in the liver, and the
purging of blood, nausea, vomiting OF
bile and food, indigestion, constipation,
piles, dizziness, persistent diarrh@a
coming ON suddenly to a person WING
has always been robust are certain sec
ondary symptoms of Bright's Disease.
Having made a tour of the body and
finding no other organs which II car
destroy, then the disease returns to the
kidneys; the back aches intolerably, tht
urine is dark, full of brickdust and
ropy; casts appear, albumen Is abund
ant; then come great muscular relax
alton and nervous p~rostration; grea,
puffs appear under the eyes, the count
nance is pale and wears an appearance
of fright, Commissions ensue, the fata
diarrh9a or pneumonia sets in, ant
death is the End. These declaration:
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 victim:
at the rate of 20 per cent. a year, anc
we be powerless to prevent? DR.. Hol
land says all medical practice is expert
mental, and hat any remedy that cure:
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 a do nothing
for a person in the tolls of Bright's Dis
ease; but happily, the oftimes wiser
school of independent investigators ha!
not so failed. A few years ago a wei
known medical practitioner found thu
vegetable elements which diseased kid
neys and liver needed as a food and re-
storer, and knowing how widely thes'
diseases prevailed, he sold the formula
to Mr.. II. H. Warner, of Rochester
N. Y. This gentleman began its manu-
facture on a most extensive scale, ant
to-day Warmers Safe Kidney and Live
Cure is used more generally than an,
other known compound. The manufac
turers of this remedy know, from tn,
unsolicited testimony of hundreds o