River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-05-04
A HUMAN BAROMETER.
The zeal Relation Between the HUI
man Body and the weather Scien-
tifIcally Explained.
Scientific .4meri'can.


Of modern science along the line 0
human necessity is the National Weathe
Bureau at Washington. Experience ha
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 foretelling atmos
pferic 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 10 the relation between
the human system and the weather. The
body is unquestionably an excellent bar,
ometer. II 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-
ton better suited to its needs. And yet
the real relation between the human body
and the weather has never been fully un-
derstood, nor has there ever been, until
now. correct explanation Of what rheu-
matism (Which seems in league with the
atmosphere) really is. Ii was originally
thought by many TO be 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 a blood disease. And what a ter
rible disease it is. Ii often comes with
out warning and prostrates the system
with agony. Again its beginning is graz
dual, and its growth slow. In its acute
form it manifests itself In every conceiv-
able shape and always accompanied by in
tense pain. AT one time it is infamma-
tory, and another neuralgia. Sometimes
it assumes the form of govt, and again
that of pleurisy or lumbago (; but in what
ever manner it appears il is terribly pain
full and always to be dreaded. The pain
aud annoyance of rheumatism are increas-
ed by its great danger, for it is liable TO
attack the brain or heart at airy 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 10
rheumatic causes. In its chronic form it
stiffens 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-
BILE 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
within the past yeaI s than any decision
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 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
neuralgic 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 2"
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
news 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, no matter how
slight the pain may be, has perfect kid
news. 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
tempts have usually been made to treat
that part of the body. As 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 scatters 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
flammatory 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 wears. been known
which would successfully reach and affect
these great organs. AT last, however,
scientists have discovered that the leaves
of tropical plant, previously but little
known to science and unknown TO mecl-
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 effectually
cure the various dangerous forms of kid
ney disease, and hence remove all uric
acid from the blood. As a result, the
cures it has been the means Of performing
are really very remarkable. Indeed,
there are thousands OF persons in America
to-day who owe their restoration to health
and entire freedom from rheumatism to
this simple yet powerful remedy, which i
known universally, manufactured In
Rochester, n. Y. and sold in every drug
store in the land.
From the doctors in the various cities
of the United States who have certified
over their own signatures to the scientific
statement that uric acid is the cause OF
rheumatism, are large number of Chi
cago and St. Louis physicians, among
them being DIR. Adolph Uhlemeyer, DR..
VIM. Webb, Dr. John NJ Frank, DR.. Ed
win T. Webster, DIR. Benjamin T. Whit
more, DIR. VIM. I. Richardson, DR.. Ro-
bert T. Atkinson, Dr. Thos. f. Humboldt,
DIR. William NJ. McPheeters, DIR. Will
lam johnson, DIR. Isaac n. Love, DR..
Clark Whittier. DIR. J. T. Hegden, DIR.
Thomas d. DUNCAN, DIR. Nicholas sub
man, DIR. Antonio Prietts, DIR. Charles III.
Goodman. DIR. Daniel Kuhn. DIR. Henry
Newland DR.. William s. Workman, DR..
George I. Pitzer. Dr. Henry f. Ahl-
brandt, DR.. Elijah I. Frazier, DIR. Carl
Spinzig, DIR. David b. Martin. DIR. Ben
iamin R. Taylor, Dr. James i. Logan,
DR.. A. Heacock, DIR. Henry Kirchner. DR..
John J. Kane, DIR. Henry F. W. kruse,
DIR. William G. Glasgow, DIR. jeremiah
| S. b. AlIeyne, Dir. Thomas F. Hughes,
Dir. Frederick Kolbenheyer, DR.. Joseph
Heiizig, DR.. Edward a. De Calhol, DR..
Bernard Roemer, DR.. james M. Clop-
ton, DIR. Charles " Ware, DIR. Alphonso
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