Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-27
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
nEeAR9 }1MESSoT TFE KEPgES GEIHSSEs OF AN
y Mcrthy Of Carefni Gonsiderntion.

To the Editor of the Scientific american:
VA voiI permit US to make hYo,0n to the
public the facts zoe hare learned during the
past years, concerning disorders of the
human Kidneys and the organs tUhich dis
eGsed Kidneys so easily break do,On? You
are conducting a Scientific paper. and are
unpTeJudiced ercept in favor of TRUTH. 10
Is needless to say, no medical Journal of
"C0de" standing fU0uLd admit these facts,
for veTy obvious reasons.
Fl. III. WARNER Dc CO.,
ProprtStors of "WdrneT'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
upon them, we propose, metaphorically
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 n
body shaped like bean, smooth and glisten-
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
organ? you say. But understand, the body
of the average size man contains about ten
quarts of blood, of auhich erery drop passes
through these filters or se1UerS, as they may
be called, many times q day as often as
through the heart, making a complete revo-
luton in three minutes. From the blood
they separate 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 9, 1875 hogsheads year, What a wonder
that the kidneys can last any length of time
under this prodigious strain, treated and
neglected as they arel
We slice this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife and will roughly de-
scribe its interior.
We find it to be of q reddish-brown color,
soft and easily torn; filled with hundreds Of
little tubes, short and threa1-like, starting
from the arteries, ending in a 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 irreg-
ularlty in our habits, from cold, from high
living, from stimulants or a thousand and
one other causes which occur every day, they
become somewhat weakened in their nerve
force
What is the RESULT Congestion or stoppage
of the current of blood in the small blood
vessels surrounding them, which become
blocked; these delicate membranes are irri-
tated; inflammation is set up, then pus is
formed, which collects in the pelvis 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 through
this terrible, disgusting putS, for it cannot
take any other route!
Stop and think of it for a moment! Do
you realize the Importance, nay the vital ne
cessity, of having the kidneys in orderl Can
you expect when they are diseased or OBJ
structed, no matter how little, that you can
have pure blood and escape disease? 1t
would be just as reasonable to expect, if
pest-house were set across Broadway and
countless thousands were compelled TO go
through its pestilential DOORS an escape from
contagion and disease, as for one to expect
the blood to escape pollution When constantly
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
hereditary influence or otherwise, some part
less train of diseases is established. such as
consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia where
there IS delicate stomach; nervousness, in
sanity, paralysis or heart disease in those
who have weak nerves
The heart must soon feel the effects of the
poison, as II requires pure blood TO keep it
IN right action. 1t increases its stroke in
number and force to compensate for the
natural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to
crowd the impure blood through this OBJ
struction, causing pain, palpitatiOn, or an
out-of-breath feeling. Unnatural as this
forced labor is, the heart 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
dignifed, call these diseases by high sounding
names, treat them alone, and patients die,
for the arteries are carrying slolD death to
the affected part, constantly adding fuel
brought from these suppurating, 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 nourishment every
twenty-four hours to supply the waste of the
body which is constantly 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 char
acter that the organs are rotten, and YET
they have neUer there had pain nor an
achel
Whyl Because the disease begins, as we
have shown, in the interior of the kidney,
where there are telO heroes of feeling to con.
vey the sensation of 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 ill-health of our men and womenl Health
and long life cannot be expected when so vi
tai an organ is impaired. No wonder some
writers say we are degenerating. Don't you
see the great, the extreme importance Of
keeping this machinery in working orderi
Could the finest engine do even fractional
part Of this work, without attention from
the engineer! Don't you sec how dangerous
this hidden disease is? 1t is lurking about
us constantly, without giving any indication
Of its presence.
The NEST skillful physicians cannot detect
it at times, for the kidneys themselves can
not be eTdmined by any means we have at
our command. Even an analysis of the water,
chemically and microscopcally, 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 93 per cent, as shown
| by after-death examinations, has its origin
in the breaking down Of these secreting tubes