Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26


human Kidneys and The Organs lekich dis
cuSed Kidneys SO easily break do,cn? You
ere conducting a Scientific paper, ana are
uaprcjUdjceti eccept IN Jucor Of Truth. X
IS aeeiieSS to say, no medical Journal Of
Code Standing tcould admit these facts,
for re?'y o6riouS reasons.
Il. Il. WARNER e CO.,
ProprietorS Of ;" W0rRer'S Safe Cure
That we may emphasize and clearly ex-
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to
the general health, and how much is de-
pendens upon them, we propose, meta
phoric&lly speaking, to take one from the
human body, place in the wash-bowl be-
fore Us, and examine 1t for the public
benefit.
You will imagine that we have before
Us g body shaped like bean, smooth and
ghstening, about four inches in length,
two in width and one in thickness. ltor-
dinarlly weighs in the adult male, about
Ave ounces, but is somewhat lighter in
the female. i small organ! you say.
But understand the body of the average
size man contains ten quarts of blood, Of
lCtich eucIy drop passes through these filters
or Sct@erS, as they may be called many
times q day as often as through the heart,
making q complete revolution in three min
itteS. From the blood they separate the
waste material, working away steadily
| night and day, sleeping or waking, tire
less as the heart itself, and fully of as
much vital Importance; removing impurl-
ties from sixty-five gallons Of blood each
hour, or about forty nine barrels of blood
each day, or 6, 125 hogshead year! What
a wonder that the kidneys can last any
length of time under this prodigious
strain, treated ana neglected as they
are?
| We slice this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly de-
scribe its interior.
We find it to be of reddish brown
color, soft and easily torn; filed with
| hundreds of little tubes, short and thread
| like, starting from the arteries, ending in
little tuft about midway from the out
/ side opening into 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
undergo publication before it passes
| down from here into the ureters, and SO
on to the outside of the body. These lit
tie tubes are the filters which do their
work automatically, and right here is tchere
the disease Of the kidney first begins.
| Doing the vast amount of work which
| they are obliged to, from the slightest
| irregularity in our habits, from cold,
/ from high living, from stimulants or a
thousand and one other causes which oc-
| cur 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 irritated; Inflammation Is
I set up, then pus is formed, which col
| lects in the pelvis or sac; the tubes are
at first partially, and soon are totally I'M
able 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 en-
tering the kidneys to be filtered, is pass
ing through this terrible disgusting puS, for
it cannot take any other route!
Stop and think of it for moment. Do
| you realize the importance, nay the vital
necessity, of having the kidneys in order?
Can you expect when they are diseased or
| INSTRUCTED, no matter how little, that you
can have pure blood and escape diSedsef 1t
would be just as reasonable to expect, if
! q pest-house were set across Broadway
and countless thousands were compelled
/
| 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 that 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 of the body is weak
er than another, a countless train of dis
eases is established, such as consumption
IN weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there is
delicate stomach; nervousness, insani-
! ty, 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 ii
! in right action. It 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 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
p
| sounding names, treat them alone, and
| patients die, for the arteries are carrying
siolo death to the affected part, constantly
adding fuel brought from their suppurat-
! ing, pus-laden kidneys which here in our
! wash-bowl are very putrefactiOn itself,
| and which should have been cured at
! 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.
"ut you say, my kidneys are all right.
i nave no pain in the back" Mistaken
man! People die of kidney disease of so
bad a character that the organs are rotten
and yet they have nerer there he'd q pain
nor an ache.
Why? Because the disease begins, as
we have shown, in the interior of the kid
ney, where there are fetg nerUes Of feeling
to convey the sensation 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 long life cannot be
expected when so vital an organ il i'm
paired. No wonder some writers say we
are degenerating. Don't you see the
great, the extreme importance of keep
| ing this machinery in working order?
! Could the finest engine do even a frac-
tional part of this work, without atten-
ton 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 most ski1ful physicians cannot
detect it at times, for the kidneys them
selres cannot be examined by any means
which we have at our command Even
an analysis of the water, chemically and
microscopically, reveals nothing definite
in many cases, even when the kidney3
are fairly broken down
Thsp look out for them, as disease, no
matter where situated, to SO per cent,
as shown by after death examinations,
has its origin in the breaking down of
these secreting tubes in the interior of
the kidney.