The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-03-07
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How. cafiess.. Oversight Brought About the
Most Serious Results, and How 1t
Might Have Been Avoided.
The Importance Of Attention 10 the Details
Of Life.

of one OF New 4ork'S wealtheSt capl-
talists, situated on a beautiful hill in
New jersey, was turned into ahouse OF
mourning. 1t had been constructed on
the most approved sanitary and
principles. Thousands of dollars had
been expended in the drainage, plumb
ing and ventilation. The surroundings
were healthful, the air was pure, and
yet an epidemic of diphtherla swept
away a family of young beautiful child
rem. 1t was the theory of the physicians
that the house was filled with malaria,
which always invites diphtherla, and,
skeptical as the father was, he lnstltut-
ed a rigid examination. Every closet,
pipe aud drain was foundt to be perfect,
and they were about to give up, bafi1ed,
when by accident they examined h
furnace fresh air box, and a few feet
from its opening, i'll a ~nelghbor'5 lot,
they discovered a mass of putrefying
garbagel The mystery was explained.
The malaria had found an entrance
through the fresh" air flue, 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 neutrality-suspicious. of Provi-
dence,n they we've the result of plain
carelessness.
Life is a constant struggle for exist
ence, and as the titteSt always survives,
il is the duty of every man to acqualnt
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 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 it 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
neys 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, in the
university of the city of New York, in
a recent lecture before the students OF
| Bellevue college hospital, says "Bright's
| Disease has NO symptoms of its own,
but has the symptoms OF every other
disease you can think Of"
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 thee common
| est cause of death In this climate among
l,l4. -.a-o - rya ntHon annunnntinn
but it is a very deceptive disease. If 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 aus
| is behind them, and if that cannot 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 in the
head, throbbingdisturbe 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 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 Kidneys produces
| the same effect in the liver, and the
purging of blood, nausea, vomiting of
bile and food, indigestion, constipation,
| piles, dizziness, persistent diarrhea
| coming on suddenly to a person who
has always been robust are certain Sec
| ondary symptoms of Brigbt's Disease
Having made a tour of the body ana
finding no other organs which it can
| destroy, then the disease returns to the
| kidneys; the back aches intoleraDly, the
| urine is dark, full of brickdust and
| ropy; casts appear, albumen is abund-
/ allJs DlCh SOLlO GANNhe SAtN
| 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 hone of curep Must this great ma
| lady increase the number of its victims
| at the rate of 25 per cent. a year, and
we be powerleSs to preyentp 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
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
news and liver needed as a food and re-
storer, and knowing how widely these
diseases prevailed, he sold the formula
to MI. II. Il. Warner, of Rochester,
n. Y. This gentleman began its manu-
facture on a most extensive scale, and
TODAY Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver