The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-05
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How caress Oversight Brought About the
kost Serious Results, and How 1t
Might Have Been Avoided.
The Importance Of ArenliO 10 the Details
Of Life.

Of Life.
Early last spring the elegant mansion
vi Une VI New YuTk's wealLhesL capi-
LaIIsLs, situated On ID beautiful nuI III
New Je 5ey, WAC turned lnto d house UI
mUuI IL had Deeu cUusLr ucJeL OIL
Tue must approved sanILaIy anc
principles. thousands vi dollars had
Deeu expended Iii LLe drainage, plumb
Iug ana Ventilation. lie surroundings
We're healtutul, This aIr Was pure, anu
yet AL epluemIc vi dIphLheria swept
away u family Of young beautiful Child
zen. II Was Tue Theory vi The pliysIclano
that tile house Was oiled With ~uIaIarIa,
WHICH Always invites dIphtnerla, aud,
skepticaI as lie father WAS, he lnstlLuJ-
ed a rIBld examlnaLIun. Every closet,
pip anu DIAN WAC tUund To De perfect,
anu they were y " give up, Datfieu.
wheu ny accident they eXauIlIed tile
tuTnaco flesh air box, aud u lew feet
tIuin It's opening, Ill d neIgubor's lot,
Luey discovered u mass vi puLTefyIug
garDagel Tue mystery WAS explaIued.
Inc maIaria lad found all entrance
through Lhy fresh" air iue, and Three
loved ones persisted BECAUSE 'sUmebudy
had Dluuderedl" The same result was
seeu AT rrIuceton college, seven students
losing theiI lives by Lho faulty drainage
VI the college grounds. These occur
reuces were neutrality-suspicious. Of Pruvi-
deuce," they were The result OF PLAIN
carelessuees.
Life Is II constant struggle for exist
ence, and as tile tiLLesL always survives,
IL ID Lue ouLy vi every man u acqualnL
himself with tue methods of prevention
Ii cure Of Influences which would
hurry uIm To the grave. There is much
uUuUL nowadays as to what, for III
stance, causes malaria, but there IL no
DOUBT that IL ID Tie basis vi Tile musL
obstinate curOulC disorders. Not many
years ago a celebrated ply slclan ut Lon
don discovered what 10 known as
Brlght's disease of Tie kidneys. While
muoL vi tile characteristics OF thls
dreadful nalady have been known, yet
Ii VI It's musL peculiar features ls vi
recent discovery, /. { LhaI IT PRODUCES
general arrangement ot Lne TISSUES, and
Involves utheI organs vi tile body long oe-
fore the kidneys themselves seem u be
affected. There is no pain III The KID
neys nur III thelr vicinity. The water
may not be a~lbumlnous; there may be
no casts, aud yet BIlgnt's disease may
exist aud disorder the entire system.
Prot. VIM. Ii. Thompson, NJ. D., Ut
the chair Of MaUerIa Medlca, Ill Tile
university of the city vi New York, IL
a recent lecture before tue students vi
Bellevue college hospital, says ''Bright's
Disease has no symptoms Of its own,
but has he Symptoms Of every other
disease you can think Of" AlDumeu
and casts may or may not be present;
nor ID the specific gravity au absolute
and itfallthIA Inar lr 1Inu1uSDn aayS
kidney disease 10 probably the
est cause Of death Ill this climate among
adults. more su even than consumption,
but IL il u very deceptive disease. Ii a
man breaks IA limb he Will expect pain
i'll the injured member; II a bullet Crash
es into tile body lie Will at least suffer
pain IN the wounded part, but in dis
eases Ut Tue kidneys he will suffer must
III tile other organs of tile body. These
sutferlngs are ouly the effects, the CAUSE
Is behind JiIem, Ii II That cs.unut he
removed there eau he no cure OF The de-
tecLs. some OF The umnune5t ailments
OF humanity are The sure symptoms oi
BrignJ's disease When the kidneys
have been diseased Tor IA certain Jime
there viii occur strange disorders IL the
head ,lhruUDlug dIstuG bed headaches, WIS.,
ion; the memory loses It's power These
are secondary symptoms of BrlHhL's
Disease.
Again, the lungs are u favorite field
VI OPERATIONS, and diseased kidneys pro
duce pleurIsy, ~bruuchItls,( with or with.
N cough great p~aleness, sudden aud
strange attacks of asthma, and splitting
III UluUd. These are secondary effects Of
BrIght's Disease.
The heart, III the effort to force blood
~ .- ..Y rl.ta ..t-.
swollen 10y reason OF kidney disease, BE-
comes exhausted, hardened or enlarged,
or valvular disease follows, with great
distress under The breast bone. Ihese
are secondary symptoms Of Brignt's
Disease.
DIR. George johnson, u great authority,
over ~ years agu pointed out that WHAT
ever disease affects the kIdneys produces
the same effect III tile liver, and the
purging ui blood, nausea, vomiting Of
bile and food, indigestion, constipation,
piles, ~dizzlness, persistent dlarrhPa
coming III suddenly 10 u person who
has always been robust are certain sec
undary symptoms of Brlght's Disease
Having made "a our of the body aud
finding no other organ which II a
destroy, then the disease returns to the
kidneys; the back aches intolerably, the
urine is dark, full OF brickdust and
rupy; casts appear, albumen is abund-
ant; then come great muscular relax
alton and nervous p~r0stratluu; great
puffs appear under the eyes, the count.
nance is pale and wears an appearance
of fright, commissions ensue, the fatal
diarrhea 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
u dispute If We would. We expect
when our physician visits our bedcham-
ter, 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 una
lady increase the number of its victims
At the rate Of 70 per cent. a year, and
we be powerless to preventp DIR. Hol-
aud 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 80 failed. A few years ago a well
known medical practitioner found the
vegetable elements which diseased kid
ueys aud liver needed as a food and re-
Storer, and knowing how widely these