The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-02-12
A FATAL NEGLECT
How Careless Oversight Brought About
the Most Serious Results, and How
1t Might Have Been Avoided.
The Importance of Attention TO the Details
Of Life.

of vne oil New lUIk'5 wealtlIest capi-
L~alists, Situated Oh Ii beautiful hui Ill
New JeIsey, was turned Into u house vi
mourning. 1t had been constructed on
Tue most approved sauitaI yaI.u scientific
principles. rbuusauuS vi dollars had
Ueeu expended IN Tue drainage, plumb
ing anu Ventilation. Lie surroundings
weIe lIealtlr1uI ], tbs air WAS pure, and
yet Ill epIdemlc OF diphLIerIa swept
away Il family OF young beautiful chilli
Ien. IL WAS The Theory vi the physicians
that the house was hIltd With malaria,
which always Invites diphtberIa, and,
skeptIcal as tue father Was, lie instItuL-
cd u rigid examination. Every closet,
pipe aud dram was found 10 be- perfect,
and they were about 10 give up, bAfileu,
when by accident they xamine Tue
furnace fresh air box, and "A lew feet
from its opening, in u ~neIghbor's lot,
they discovered a mass OF putrefying
garbagel The mystery was explained.
The malaria had found an entrance
through Lhu "fresh" air fiue, 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
rences were not''dispensations of Provi-
dence," they were The result of plain
careleSsness.
Life is "a constant struggle for exist
ence and as the itteSt always survives,
" 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 tue kidneys. While
most of the characteristics of this
dreadful malady have been known, yet
IL of its NEST peculiar features is of
recent discovery, l. 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 a~lbuminous; there may be
no casts, and yet Bright's disease may
exist II disorder the entire system.
Prof. VIM. IL. Thompson, Nj. D., of
the chair of Materia Medica, in the
university of the city of New York, in
n recent lecture before the students of
Bellevue college hospital, says 'Bright's
Disease has no symptoms of it's 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 al 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 u
man breaks Il limb he will expect pain
in the injured member; if a bullet crash
es into the body he will at least tuffer
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 commonesta ailments
of humanity are the sure symptoms of
Bright's disease. When the kidneys
nave been diseased for a certain time
there will occur strange disorders in the
head, throbbingdisturbed headaches. WIS.,
ion; the memory loses its power. These
are secondary symptoms OF Bright's
Disease. nuIu
Again, the lungs are a favorite nro-
of operations, and diseased kidneys
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 Bright's
Disease.
DR.. George johnson, agreatauthority,
over 20 years ago pointed out that what
ever disease affects the Fidueys produces
the same effect in the liver, and the
purging of blood, nausea, vomiting of
bile and food, indigestion, constipation,
piles, dizziness, persistent diarrh9a
coming on suddenly to a 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 a
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; then come great muscular relax
alton and nervous ~prOstration; great
puffs appear under the eyes, the count
enance is pale and wears an appearance
of fright, commissions ensue, the fatal
diarrh9a 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 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 rs per cent. a year, and
we be powerless to prevent? DR.. Hol-
land says all medical practice is expert
mental, and hat 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 car 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.
npys and liver needed as a food and re-
st0rer, and knowing how widely these
diseases prevailed, he sold the formula
to Mr.. II. IL. Warner, of Rochester,
N. Y. This gentleman began its nan
facture on n most extensive scale, and
to day Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure is used more generally than any
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