Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
Disease Of the Kidneys.

The frequency and fatality of diseases of the Kid
neys give especial interest to the study and in.
veStgation Of them and elevate any discovery as to
their essential natures the means of c1ring them
to a very important place in the Tt and science OF
medicine. When the fact is recalled that the Kid.
news are the great scaTenger5 OF the human body
their Office is to from the blood anY and all
impurities which may exist in it-that if this oIice
be entirely shut up, life cannot be long maintained
The products Of used.up and worn out principles OF
the hum-n body, retained in the blood, so poison
the nervous system that its functions duties VIII
be arrested, the brain will eesss to take e0guizlnce
of surrounding persons and objects, Consciousness
will be obiterAted, the vital knot viii become con-
gested, the heatt and lungs will cease To perform
their part in the phenomena Of life-thsy stop. Ere
this, how yer, the most terrible form Of all human
suffering is apt take place and gives an additional
horrcr to the hour OF death. II the offices Of the
Kidneys be essential to life, that it must cease
so after they cease to act, the conclusion IS ines
clpabae thar any deviation from the performance of
II ese offices must be attended with deran ement of
hes th The urine is the depuratng secretion elm.
mated from the blood by the Kidneys-the channel
By hich the norblt agents arc carried out of the
general circulation and the b'ood preserved in
healthy quantity aud quality. II it fails 10 do this,
disease follows as necessary sequence To preserve
health it is necessary to preserve healthy condition
of the Kidneys This, of course. is attained by tenn
peance in all the relations OF life diet clothing,
exercise and residence. Blu. disease and suffering
are inescspabe. They seem TO be part Of the
put upon man as the fruits OF his disobedience
While sin has brought It's punShmentS, man stlll
has the consolation that God has placed within bis
reach balm for every i'll, and that, by improving
the opportunities thus given be may be relieved of
his suffering, live in the enjoyment Of comparative
comfort and attain green old age.
When we recall the offices Of the Ridneys-that OF
removing the worn out tissue elements from the
blooi-it easy to understand how they may become
diseased. Acrid and acid conditions of the blood
very liable to be attended with Kidney disorders.
These sources Of irritation may lead to various forms
OF Kidney naladies, as Dropsy, Dabltes, Bright's
Disease, in which album IN, of the element Of our
food which corresponds with the white Of egg, is
carried off in the urine, causing emaciation and
ultimately death. We all know how intractable
these diseases are that heretofore they have, in a
large per cent Of cases, proved fatal Medical science
is very much at sea to their management. What
we desire IS a remedy that will give tone to the
Kidneys, build up tie blood, destroy its acTid
character, snd cure the various maadies from which
these or2ans suffer. Our attention has been re-
Gently called by several physicians to Hunts
Remedy, q Kidney medicine used by them in their
practice. 1t seems to be one of the very few COM
binaons out of the multitude that has any decided
value, that is calculated to benefit the ailments
exciting the secretions of the Kidneys to more
intense action and thus cleansing the blood of i'm
purites 1t seems to act promptly ia those forms
OF Dropsv which depend upon Kidney troubles, and
will rapidly drain out the water from the limbs and
abdomen. 10 Diabetes it is said to lessen the
amount OF sugar, to increase the appetite and
otherwise benefit the pliient.-[New York Medical
and Surgical Journal n6-1yMWF&wly