The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26
A TALK WITH A SURGEON.

Talking a few days ago with one of the most
distinguished surgeons OF Cincinnati, one of our
writer's said to him:
Doctor, what's the matter with our people
nowadays, that SO many of them are complain
ing about their livers2 1t seems to me that half
the people | meet have their livers out of order"
Your estimate is a very light one" said the
doctor. Probably seventy five per cent. of the
people have livers which are not doing their work
fully and properly. You can see it for yourself
In various degrees of signs on the skin or in the
eyes. Notice it, all tie way from the saffron
colored skin and eyeballs of the thoroughly
Jaundlced victim of liyer-complaint to the slightly
plmpled face of the young lady whose waist is
too tightly laced, and who is c%rowding her liver
into such narrow quarters that it has not half a
chance to work"
We'll" said our correspondent. what is the
most general cause of what we call liver com
p~laintg"
THE causes" responded our eminent medical
friend, ARE as many as the diversitieS of the dis
order. Prominent among them you may men
ton greasy food, lack of proper exercise and ven
tllatlon, and irregularity in eating. The liver is
a wonderful organ. 1t has to do It's work in the
dark. No process of surgery can reach it while
in the living body. All the blood must pass rap
idly through it, to be cleansed of impurities.
There are great tubes and small ones in the liver
some so exceedingly small that they cannot be
seen except with the microscope. If any of these
become clogged. there are at once some lmper-
fectlonS in the grand system of filtration. When
the liver is out of order, the bile. which
ought to go In proper directions on its mission of
usefulness, goes astray and wanders into the cir
c%ulation, and tells its tale of mischief in the vel
low tinge it gives the skin. The healthy skin is
rosy and Efelike. The skin which has lost its
rosy hue, and looks as if 1t had been tanned. or
was going to be. is telling its story of disordered
liver and corrupted blood"
"But, doctor. you say that no surgical opera
ton can reach the liver. What is to be done for
the seventy-fve livers out of a hundred which
YOU saw are disOrderedP
My dear sir, happily we do not need surgery
for this organ. There is a better and easier way
of reaching the difficulty. You want to enrich
the enfeebled and corrupted blood, and for that
you need iron. You want to administer a tonic
to tone up the system and invigorate the liver. so
as to renew its diligence in the work of sitting
the impurities out of the blood. Of course, you
know that there are all sorts of preparations
which claim TO do this work. But be careful
what you use. There is a capital iron prepare
ton which is made il Baltimore, and is the best
l know of. for it does it's work without producing
constipation or headache. The trouble with
most of the iron preparations is that they do
mischief in these directions. My position as a
professional man makes me careful in speaking
of any proprietary article: but l may mention
that this article is Browns Iron Bltters."
why that's the great popular tonic that the
people are all talking about"
And we'll may they talk about it, for it is a
good thing"
Sauntering away in the direction of Spring
Grove avenue, and looking at the new improve
ments in that direction, he stopped for lunch at
the Spring Grove Exchange Restaurant, Gin
cinnati, and was waited on by it's proprietors,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. McGee. To these good peo-
pie he began to talk on the subject which was
nppermost in his mind. He found that they
both had been afflicted with liver complaint, and
had both found their way out of it.
Said Mrs. MCGEE: Il had liver complaint for
five or six years, and kidney trouble, too. About
a year ago ! began using Browns Iron Bltters,
and then | got we'll. l have had no trouble
since. I took three or four bottles of this medi-
cine. Some of my friends have taken it, and it
has done them q great deal of good"
Said Mr.. MCGEE: II have been taking it, too;
and am taking it yet, for 1 did not begin as soon
as my wife did. 1t has done me much good, and
| believe it is the right thing for people who
have any liver or kidney troubles"
There are two cases of cure right before our
eyes.