Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-11-15
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.
Regarding the Functions of an I'M
pOrtant Organ.
OF which Public Knows but little
Worthy Careful Consideration

the public the facts We have learned dur.
ing the past years. concerning disorders
of the human kidneys and the organs
which diseased kidneys so easily break
down? You are conducting scientific
paper. and are unparalleled except in
favor OF the Truth II is needless TO say.
no medical Journal of Code standing
would admit these facts, for very obvious
reasons. I'll. H WARNER IL Co,
proprietors of Warmers safe cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation the kidneys sustain
to the general health. and how much is
dependent upon them, We propose, met~
aphorically speaking, to take one from the
human body, place in the wash bowl be
fore us, and examine it for the public
benefit.
You will imagine that We have before
Us IA body shaped like Il bean. smooth and
glistening. about four inches in length,
two III width. and one in thickness. 1t
ordinarily weighs in the adult ale about
five ounces, but is somewhat lighter in
the female. A small organ? you say
But understand, the body of the average
size man contains about ten quarts of
blood, of which every drop passes through
these filters or sewers, as they may DE
called. many times a day, as often as
through the heart, making complete
revolution in three minutes. From the
blood they separate the waste material,
working away steadily night ami day,
Sleeping or walking. tireless as the heart
Itself and fully of as much vital impor
lance; removing impurities from sixty>
five gallons of blood each hour, or about
forty nine barrels each day, or 8, 1876 hogs
head year What wonder that the
kidneys can last any length of time un-
der this prodigious STRAIN, treated and
neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open
lehgthwise with our knife, and will
roughly describe its interior.
We find it to be of reddIsh-browu
color. soft and easily torn; filled with
hundreds of little tubes, short and thread
like, starting from the arteries, ending in
u little tiff about midway from the out
side opening into a cavity Of considerable
size. which is called the pelvis or, rough>
ly speaking a sac, which is for the pur-
pose of holding the water to further IN
dergo publication before it passes down
from here into the ureters, and so on to
the outside of the body. These little
tubes are the filters which do their work
automatically, and right here is where
the disease of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work which
they are obliged to. from the slightest
irTegularity in our habits, from cold,
from high living, from stimulants or
thousand and one other causes which Oc-
cur every day, they become somewhat
weakened in the nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or stop
page of the currant of blood in the small
blood vessels surrounding them, which
become blocked; these delicate mem
brances are irratated; Inflammation is set
up, then pus is formed. which collects in
the pelvls or sac; the tubes are at first
partially and soon are totally. unable to
do their work. The pelvic sac goes on
distending with this corruption, pressing
upon the blood vessels. All this time,
remember, the blood, which is entering
the kidneys to be filtered, is passing
=
it cannot take any other route!
Stop aud think of it for a moment
Do you realize the importance, nay the
vital necessity, of having the kidneys in
order? Can you epxect when they are
diseasd or obstruCted. no matter how
little, that you can have pure blood and
escape dsease7 1t would be lust as
reasonable to expect, if pest~house were
set across Broadway and countless thOus
ands were compelled to go through its
presidential doors, and escape from cons.
tagion and disease. as for one to expect
he blood to escape pollution when con
stantly running through a diseased kid
ney.
Now, what is the result? Why. that
the blood takes up and deposits this
poison as it sweeps along into every or
gan, into every inch of muscle. tissue,
flesh and bone, from your head to your
feet And whenever from hereditary in
huence or otherwise, some part OF the
body is weaker than another. countless
train of diseases is established. such as
consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia
where there is delicate stomach; ner-
vousness, insanity, paralysis or heart dis
case in those who have weak nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects of
the poison. as it requires pure blood to
keep it in right action. II increases its
stroke in number and force to compensate
for the natural stimulus wanting, in its
endeavOr to crowd the impure blood
through this obstruction. causing pain,
palpitation. or an out-of breath feeling.
Unnatural as this forced labor is. the
heurt must soon falter, becoming weaker
and weaker until one day it suddenly
stops, and death from apparent heart
disease" is the verdict
But the medical profession, learned and
dignified, call these diseases by high
sounding names, treat them alone, and
patients die, for the arteries are carrying
slow death to the affected part, constant
" adding fuel brought from these sup>
perating. pus laden kidneys which here
in our wash bowl are very putrefaction
itself, and which should have been cured
first
But this is not all the kidneys have to
do; for you must remember that each
adult takes about seven pounds of nour-
ishment every twenty~four hours to sup>
ply the waste of the body which is con-
stantly going on, a waste equal to the
quantity taken. This, too. the kidneys
have to separate from the blood with all
other decomposIng matter.
But you say. my kidneys are all right.
] have no pain in the back" Mistaken
mani People die of kidney disease of so
bad character that the organs are rot
ten. and yet they have never there had a
pain or an ache!
Why? Because the disease begins, as
we have shown, in the interior of the kid
ney, where there are few nerves of feel
ing to convey the sensation pain. Why
this is so we may never know.
When you consider their great work,
the delcacy of their structure, the ease
with which they are deranged, can you
wonder at the i'll health of our men and