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SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
IMPORTANT ORGAN.
Of Which the Public Knows But Little
Worthy Of Careful Consideration.

! To the Editor of the Scientific American,
! VIII you permit US to make kno'Cn to the
public the facts tUe hdue learned during the
past 3 yeGrs, concerning disorders of the
human Kidneys and the organs 1rhtch dls-
eased Kidneys so easily break doUnF You
are conducting Scientific paper, ana arc re-
unprejudiced ercept in favor Of TRUTH 1t
is needless to sag, no medical Journal OF
"Code" standing ,Uould admit these facts,
| for rery Obvious reasons.
Proprietors of "Wdrner's Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly ex
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to the
general health, and how much is dependent
speaking, to take one from the human body,
place it in the wash-bowl before us, and ex-
anime it for the public benefit
You will imagine that we have before us
body shaped like bean, smooth and gllsten-
ing, aboutfour inches in length, two in width,
and one in thickness. 1t ordinarily weighs
in the adult male about five ounces, but is
somewhat lighter in the female. A small
orr an? you say. But understand, the body
of the average size man contains about ten
quarts Of blood, of ,yhich erery drop passes
through these filters or setUerS, as they may
be called, many times day as often as
through the heart, making complete reVo.
luton in three minutes. From the blood
they sci arate the waste material, working
away steadily night and day, sleeping or
waking, tireless as the heart itself, and fully
of as much vital Importance; removing i'm
! purities from sixty-five gallons of blood each
hour, or about forty nine barrels each day,
! or 8, l25 hogsheads year! What wonder
that the kidneys can last any length OF time
under this prodigious strain, treated and
neglected as they arc!
- he oil sofa h.
wise with our knife, and will roughly de-
scribe its interior.
We find it to be Of reddis'l-brown color,
soft and easily torn; filled with hundreds OF
little tubes, short and threa Like, starting
from the arteries, ending in little tuft about
midway from the outside opening into
cavity of considerable size, which is called
the pelvis or, roughly speaking, sac, which
is for the purpose of holding the water to
further undergo 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 auto
matically, and right here is 1chere the dis
ease of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount Of work which
they are obliged to, from the slightest lrreg-
ularity in our habits, from cold, from high
living, from stimulants or thousand and
one other causes which occur every day, they
become somewhat weakened in their nerve
force.
What is the resultl Congestion or stoppage
Of the current Of blood in the small blood
vessels surrounding them, which become
blocked; these delicate membranes are lrrl-
tated; inflammation is set up, then pus is
formed, which collects in the relvis 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, whichis entering
the kidneys to be filtered, is passing through
this terrible, disgusting pus, for it cannot
take any other route!
ASStop and think of it for momehtl Do
you realize the Importance, nay the vital ne
cessity, of having the kidneys in order! Can
you expect when they are diseased or OBJ
structed, no matter how little, that you can
have pure LlCod aud escape diseUss7 It
would be iu t as reasonable to expect, If q
pesthouse were Set across Broadway and
| countless Thousands were compelled TO go
through its pestiential doors, an escape from
contagion and disease. as for one to expect
the blood to escapepollution when con family
running through diseased kidney.
| Now, what is the result. Why, that the
blood takes up and deposits this poison as it
sweeps along into every organ, into every
inch Of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone, from
your head to your feet And whenever, from
| of The body is weaker than another. count
less train Of diseases is established, such as
consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia where
| there is a delicate stomach; nervousness, in
sanity, paralysis or heart disease in those
| who have weak ner, es.
The heart must soon feel the effects OF the
poison, as il requires pure blood TO keep it
in right action. 1t increases its stroke in
number and force to compensat, for the
natural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to
crowG! the impure blood through this OBJ
struction, causing pain, palpitation, or an
out-oi i-breath feeling. Unnatural aI this
forced labor is, the heart must soon falter,
becoming weaker and weaker until ono day
it suddenly stops, and death from apparent
"heart disease is the verdict
But the medical profession, learned aud
digni1ed, call these diseases by high sounding
names, treat them alone, and patients die,
| for the arteries are carrying Slo,o death to
! the affected part, constantly adding fuel
brought from these suppurating, pus-aden
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 nourishment every
twenty four hours to supply til. waste of tho
body which is constantly going on, 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. l
have no pain in the back" Mistaken man!
People die of kidney disease of so bad char
acter that the organs are rotten, and yet
they have nerer there had pain nor an
achei
WHY? Because the disease begins, as we
have shown, in the interior Of the kidney,
where there are feu ne,yes of feeling to con-
vey the sens alton of pain. Why this Is so
we may never know.
When you consider their great work, the
delicacy of their structure, the ease with
which they are deranged, can you wonder at
the ill-health of our men and women? Health
and lrng life tannot be expected when so vi
. . tai an organ is impaired. No wonder some
writers say We are degeneratins. Don't you
! see the great, the extreme Importance Of
keefing this machinery in working order!
Could the finest engine do even fractional
part of this work, without attention from
the engineer' Don't you see how dangerous
this hidden disease is! 1t is lurking about
us constantly, without giving any indication
of its presence.
The me st skillful physicians canno 1t dete:t
it at times, for the Kidneys themselves can
not Ge examined by any means we have at
our command. Even an analysis Of the water,
chemically and micl oscopically, reveals
nothing definite in many cases, even when
the kidneys are fairly broken down.
Then look out for them, as disease, no mat
ter where situated, to 9S per cent, as shown
by arter.death examinations, has its origin
in the breaking down of these secreting tubes
in the n.erior of tho kidney.
AS You value health, as you desire long life
free from sickness and suffering, give these
orsa some attention. Keep them in good
condition and thus prevent las is easily done
all disease.
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