The Opelousas courier., 1886-07-17
WHAT SCIENCE A Y
The ssFearful and Wonderfup'. Mechanism
of the Human system graphically FOR
trayed.

IMG IF GNTE IN v
Of the. Human system Graphically Por-
trayed.
Tin the editorial columns # the & S J sU5, York Z 4sn ea .
tui description OF the laboratories of the human sys
tenn. We think we have never read q liner or more
trustworthy one.]
Man is the greatest of all chemical labor
ntories. Magnify the smallest cell OF the body
and what q factory is spread before the eyes
countess chambers in which are globes of
air, masses of solid matter, globules of dying
liquid; a flash comes and the whole is con-
sumed and needful heat is carried into every
part of ths system. Electrical forces also
generate and are conveyed to the brain, the
muscles and the various nerve centres.
I'm another set of a million chambers. we
see various gasses aud vapors. By chemical
alton these are changed and purified in the
lungs and the skin. The blood we often say
is a great living river. In its current are
masses which the air in the lungs did not at
feet: blocks of chalk; slabs of tartar; pieces
of bone-ash, strings of albumen; drops OF
molasses and lines of alcohol. How are
til .se waste masses d sposed Of? Begin
where you will in this great stream, you
must come to the purifying places of the sys-
tenn. Here is all activity and an invisible
force reaches out into the stream, seizes and
carries this mass of waste into vast trenches,
thence into q smaller reservoir, and finally
into a larger reservoir, which regularly dis
charges its contents.
|1uIS S0DAFdUiCu VI ll1kS, dCiOau t1u OpAiCA
waste material from the blood, without rob
bling it of q particle of the life fluid, passes
human comprehension. In health this blood,
! purifying process is carried on without our
knowledge. The organs in which it is done
are faithful servants whose work is silent as
long as health remains.
People strangely wait until pain strikes a
nerve before they will realize that they have
any trouble. They do not know that pain
concerns chiefly the exterior, not the interior
of the body. A certain set of nerves connect
these blood-purifying organs with the braln.s
They may not gnaw and bite as does the
tooth-ache or a scratch, but they regularly,
silently report. When these organs are fail
ing these nerves indicate it by drawing the
blood from the face and cheek, leaving the
lip and eye blanched, by sending uric acid
poison into the smallest veins, the skin then
becoming gray, yellow or brown. They also
prevent the publication of the blood in the
lungs and cause pulmonary difficulties, weari-
ness and pain. Who enjoys perfect health,
especially in this land where we burn the
candle in one mass? The athlete breaks down
in the race; the editor falls at his desk; the
merchant succumbs in his counting room.
These events should not nave been I'M
expected, for nature long ago hung
out her lanterns of alarm When the
ssaccident" finally comes, its fatal effect is
seen in a hundred forms; either as onges-
ton, chronic weakness, as wrong action, as
variable appetite, as head troubles, as palpi-
tation and irregularities of the heart, as
premature decay, as dryness and harshness
of the skin, causing the hair to drop out or
turn gray, as apoplexy, as paralysis, as gen,
eral debility, blood poisoning, etc.
"Pnt no faith then in the wiseacre who
saws there is no danger as long as there is no
pain. Put no faith in the physician, who
ever he may be, who says it is a mere cold
or a sight indisposition. He knows little, II
any, more tina You do about it. He can
neither see nor examine these organs and de
pends entirely upon experimental tests, tina
you cau make rs wei as he. a..
eff the output is discolored or muddy, ii i
contains albumen, lymph, crystals, sweet o.
morbid matter, is red with es,aped blood, O.
ro;ly with gravel, mucous n froth, some
thing is wrong and disease and death are no
far away.
ssThese organs which we have describes
thus at length, because they are really tn
most important ones in the human system
the ones in which a large majority OF human
ailments originate and are sustained, are IN
kidneys. They have not been much dlscusse
in public, because it is conceded that the PR
fesioE has little known power over then
What is wanted for such organs is a slnp
medicine, which can do no harm to the mo.
delicate, but must be of the greatest benef
to the afflicted. Such a remedy, trie
over The world, is Warmers sal
cure. With those in whom disease is dee
seated it is the only specific. For those
whom the seeds are sown and the beglnnln
OF illness started it is an unfaiIing %relianc
. It may be recommended to the well to pr
. vent sickness, and the sick to prevent deaf,
. With its aid the great fltering engines of I'll
system keep on in their silent work wltho'
i, i~nterruption: without it they get out of ge:
= and then disease and death open the do
. and cross the threshold
Such writing ought not only TO please, b
to carry conviction that what Editor Las
1 ing, M. D.-so high an authority-says
= true, and that his eonns is worthy the {
j tention and heed of all prudent, rigt
I minded people.