The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-18
A FATAL NEGLECT.
How CarlcSs Oversight Brought About The
Most Serious Results, and How IT
Might Have Been Ayoiacd.
The Importance of AtrentiO TO the Details
of Life.

principles. Thousands Of dollars had
been expended i'll the drainage, plumb
ing and ventilation. The surroundings
were hualthful, tbs air was pure, aud
yet an epidemic of diphtherIa swept
away a family OF young beautiful child
rem. II Was the theory OF the physicians
that the house was illed with malaria,
which always invites diphtherIa, aud,
skeptlcal AS the father WAS, lie institute
ed u rigid examination. Every closet,
pipe aud dra n was found to be perfect,
and they were about to give up, Dailed.
when by accident they examined the
furnace fresh air box, and a few feet
from its opening, i'll a neighbours lot,
they discovered a mass of putTefying
garbage! The mystery was explained.
The malaria mad found an entrance
through the fresh" air nue, and three
loved ones persisted because somebody
had blundered'" The same result was
seen ut Princeton college, seven stUdGuts
losing their lives by the faulty drainage
Of the college grounds. I4ySe occur
reuces were neutrality-suspicious. Of PTUyi-
denCe,' they we've the result Of plain
caTelessness.
Life is a constant struggle for exist
ence, and as the tiLtest always survives,
IL 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 the kidneys. While
most of the characteristic 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 tile 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 BIight's disease may
exist and disorder the entire system.
Prof. VIM. IL. Thompson, NJ. D., OF
the chair of Materia Medica, i'll the
university of the city of New York, in
u recent lecture before the students of
Bellevue college hospital, says ''Brlght's
Disease has no symptoms of its own,
but has the symptoms of every other
NADNaoS y'N SNAA IL va
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 III this climate among
adults. more so even than consumption,
but II is a very deceptive disease. If a
mar breaks a limb he will expect pain
in the injured member; If u 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
suileIings 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 communest ailments
of humanity are the sure symptoms OF
BTight's disease. When the kidneys
have been diseased for a certain time
there will occur strange disorders in the
head, throbbing lsturbedheadacbes 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 p~aleness, sudden and
TRANCE 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-
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, u greatGuthority,
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 dlarrh9a
coming on suddenly TO u person who
has u always been robust are certain sec
ondary symptoms of Bright's Disease
Having made a tom of the body and
finding no other organs which ii can
destroy, hen the disease returns to the
kidneys; the back aches intoleraJly, the
urine is dark, full OF bTICkdust and
rUpy; casts appear, albumcu is Gburj-
ant; then come great muscular relax
alton and prOstratIun; great
pufTs appear under the eyes, the count
nance is pale and wears an appearance
IF 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
GRITTY 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 hoTe of curep Must this great ma
lady increase the number of its victims
at the rate of % per cent. q 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 BriCht'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-
and knowing how widely these
diseases prevailed, he sold the formula
TO Mr.. IL. IL. Warner, of Rochester,
N. Y. This gentleman began its manu-
facture on a most extensive scale, and
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure is used more generally than any
other known compound. The manufac-
turers Of this remedy know, from the
unsolicited testimony of hundreds of
cases cured of the worst form of Bright's
disease, that ii is an almost absolute
anaclNc hnsnd ON a nnm mud nrnnnl