The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-12
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How Cariess Oversight Brought About The
Most Serious Results, and How II
Might Have Been Avoided.
The Importance of AttentIo 10 the Details
Of Life.

of enc Of New York's weaIthest capt.
talsLs, situated on d beautiful mil III
New Jet sey, WAS Turned INTO u house Oh
MOURNING. IL had been constructed on
tue most approved sanitary and 5CIentlhc
principles. Thousands OF dollars had
been expended in the drainage, plumb
ing and ventilation. The Surroundings
were healLhtul, the air was pure, and
yet an epidemic of diphJherla swept
away a family OF young beautiful child
Ten. IL WAS the theory Of The physicians
that the house was TILED with malaria,
which always invites d~Iphtheria, aud,
skeptIcai as the father was, he lnetltuJ-
ed a rigid examination. Every closet,
pipe and dram was found to he perfect,
aud they were about TO give up, batlied,
when by accident they examined the
furnace fresh air box, and IA lew feet
from its opening, III IA nelghbOr's lot,
tuey discovered a mass OF puLrefylng
garbage! The mystery VAS explained.
Tie malaria had found an entrance
through this "freSh" air hue, aud three
loved ones persisted because somebody
had ~blundeTedi" The same result was
seen at Princeton college, seven students
losing their lives by the faulty drainage
of the college grounds. These OCCUR
rences were not 'd~IspeusatiUns Of Prov
deuce," they were the result OF PLAIN
caTelesSues5.
Life Is Il constant struggle for exist
ence, and as the hJtest always survives,
IL Is Tie uuty OF every maj 10 acquaInt
himself with tue methods Of prevention
and cure OF Influences winch would
hurry Inn u the grave. There Is much
doubt nowadays as to what, for in
stance, causes malaria, but there is no
doubt thai IL is Jhe Dasl5 vi The most
obstinate chronic dIsurueIs. Not many
years & IL celebrated pny siclan ut Lon
don discovered what Is known AS
brlght's disease oi tile kidneys. While
must of the characteristics OF TINS
dreadful malady have been known, yet
Que vi its most peculiar features is OF
recent discovery, l. t Jnat IL PRODUCES
general arrangement Ut tile TISSUES, and
Involves other UrBaIIs vi tile body long be-
fore the kidneys themselves seem To De
affected. There is NO paiu III tne KID
neys nor III their vicinity. The water
may not be alOumlnUus; there may be
nu casts, and yet BIigut's disease may
exist aud disorder the eutire sysLem.
Prof. VIM. ii. Thompson, NJ. D., Of
the chair OF Materla Medica, III the
university of the city OF New YORK, III
u recent lecture before the students Of
Bellevue college hospital, says 'Brlght's
Disease has nO symptoms VI its own,
but has the symptoms Of every other
disease you Can think of." Albuneu
aud casts may or may not be present;
nor Is the specific gravity un absolute
and iufallIble test. DR.. Thompson says
kidney disease Is probably The common
est cause of death Ill this climate among
adults. more so even than consumption,
but IL is a very deceptive disease. If "a
mar breaks u limb he will expect pain
in the injured member; if Il 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 ann be
removed there can be no cure of the de-
fects. Some of the commOnest ailments
of humanity are the sure symptoms OF
Bright's disease. When the kidneys
have been diseased for a certain time
there will occur strange disorders III 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 fayorite field
of operations, and diseased kidneys prO
duce pleurisy, bronchitis, with or with
out cough, great p%aleness, 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, a gTeatauthOrity,
over 20 years ago pointed out that what
ever disease affects the Eldueys produces
the same effect i'll the liver, and the
purging OF blood, nausea, vomiting of
bile and food, Indigestion, constipation,
piles, dizziness, persistent dlarrh9a
coming Oh suddenly to u person who
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 it can
destroy, then the disease returns to the
kidneys; the back aches i~ntolerably, the
urine is dark, full OF brickdusJ and
rUpy; casts appear, albumen Is abund-
ant; then come great muscular relax
alton and v prOstratiun; great
pufTs appear under the eyes, the count
enance is pale and wears an appearance
Of fright, COMMISSIONS ensue, the fatal
diarrhGa 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 winch
he approaches with the certainty of
failure like Bright's Disease. Is there
no hoIe of cure2 Must this great ma.
lady increase the number Of its victims
at the rate of 70 per cent. a year, and
we be powerless to prevent? DR.. 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 Bricht's Dis
ease; but happily, the oftlmes 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 aud liver needed as a food and re-
and knowing how widely these
diseases prevailed, he sold the formula
to Mr.. II. II. Warner, of Rochester,
n. Y. This gentleman began its manu-