The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-11
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How csriess Oversight Brought About the
Most Serious Results, and How 1t
Might Have Been Avoided.
The Importance Of AtIentiO to the Details
of Life

Early last spring the elegant mansion
of one OF New 9Ork's wealthest capl-
~talIsLs, situated on a beautiful hui Iii
New Je. sey, WAS turned into u house oil
mourning. IL had been constructed Oh
tue most approved sanitary and scientific
principles. Thousands OF dollars had
Deeu expended in the drainage, plumb
mug and Ventilation. The Surroundings
we're n%ealJntul, the air was pure, and
yet All epidemic of diphtherIa swept
away u family of young beautiful child
len. IL WAS Tue theory of The physicians
that tbs house WAS hlled with malaria,
winch always invites dlphtherIa, and,
skeptIcal AS Ii father was, he INSTITUTE
I'd d rIgId EXAMINATION. Every closet,
pipe and dram was found to he perfect,
and they were about " give up, baffled.
When by accident they exanIined ths
urnac fresh air box, and a few feet
from Its opening, III a nelghDOr's lot,
lucy discovered u mass uf putrefylng
garDagel The mystery WAS explained.
Ine malaTla had found Ill enLrauce
through Lhu fresh" air Hue, and three
loved ones persisted BECAUSE somebody
had blunderedi" The same result WAS
seen L princeton college, seven students
losing thelI lives by The faulty drainage
of the college grounds. These occur
reuces were ot''dispensatiuns of Prov
dence," they weIe the result of plain
carelesSueSS.
Life Is u constant struggle for exist
ence, and as the fullest always survives,
" Is Tile duLy OF every man 10 acqualnL
himself With tue methods of prevention
and SURE of Influences which would
hurry hun To the grave. There is much
4.,.N ~. ~ Ia DI,AN fnr in
stance, CAUSES malaria, but there Is no
doubt that II Is Tie basis of the most
obstinate chronic disorders. Not many
years ago u 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 most peculiar features is of
recent discovery, i. e that 1t Produces
general arrangement of the tissues, and
involves other organs OF the body long be-
fore the kidneys themselves seem To be
affected. There is no pain in the kid
ueys nor IN their vicinity. The water
may not be albuminous; there may be
no 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, i'll the
university of the city of New York, IN
a recent lecture before the students OF
Bellevue college hospital, says ''Brlght's
Disease has nc 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. DR.. Thompson says
kidney disease is probably the common
est cause of death IN this climate among
adults. more so even than consumption,
but IL is a very deceptive disease. II a
man breaks a 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 the effects, the cause
is behind them, and IL that cannot be
removed there can be nc cure of the de-
fects. Some of the commonest ailments
of humanity are the sure symptoms Of
Bright's disease. When the kidneys
have beer diseased for a certain time
there will occur strange disorders in the
head, throbbingdisturb 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 paleuess, 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.
DIR. George johnson, a greatauthority,
over 20 years G 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 diarrhpa
coming on suddenly to q 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 intolerably, the
urine is dark, full OF brickdust and
ropy; casts appear, albumen is abund-
ant: Their come great muscular relax
alton and nervous pr0stratiou; 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
Grn tho uur ntnna nf man nf htgI anTh h
ority in medical science, whom we can
not dispute if we would. We expect
when our physician visits our bedcham-
her, 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 hore 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 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 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-
storer, and knowing how widely these
diseases prevailed, he sold the formula
10 Mr.. II. II. Warner, of Rochester,
n. Y. This gentleman began its manu-
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