The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-02-18


medi" journal of Code standing would ad-
nit these facts, for very obvious reasons.
H. FL. WARNER s. Co,
Proprietors of Warmers Safe Cure
That We may emphasize and clearly ex-
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to
the general health, and how much is de-
pendent upon them, we propose, meta
phorically speaking, to take one from the
human body, place in the wash-bowl be-
fore us, and esamine it for the public
benefit
You Will Imagine that We have before
us body shaped like bean, smooth and
gllstening about four inches in length,
two in width, and one in thickness. 1t
ordinarily weighs in the adult male,
about five ounces, but is somewhat light
er in the female. A small organ? you
say. But understand, the body of the
average man contains about te. quarts of
blood, Of 'chich ecery drop pa ees through
these pliers or se'cers, as they may be call
ed, me-. y ti.aes a day, as often as through
the 'laart, making complete revolution
In three minutes. From the blood they
sepai..te the waste material working
away steadily, night and day, sleeping
or waking, tireless as the heart itself, and
fully OF as much vital Importance remov-
ing impr tiles from IS gallons of blood
edch ho,v, or about 40 barrels each day,
or 9,l25 no Isl" "ads year What won
der u; the kidneys can last any length
of t de under' sprodigious strain treat
ed and neglected as they are
We slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise with our knife, and will rough
ly describe it's interior.
We find it to be redish brown color,
soft and easily torn filled with hundreds
OF little tubes, short and thread-like, start
ing from the arteries, ending in little
tutt about midway from the outside open
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 fit : which do their work auto
=. atca lv, and right here as ,chere the dis
e"se Of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount OF work which
they are oblige to, from the slightest ir-
regularity in our habits. from cold, from
high living, from stimulants or a thousand
and one other causes which occur every
day they become somewhat weaken in
their nerve force.
What is the result Congestion or stop
page Of the current of blood in the small
blood vessels surrounding them, which
become blocked; these delicate mem
bra1es are irrit ated, inflammation rs 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 he filtered, is passing
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 obstructed, no matter how little, that
YOU can have pure blood and escdpe dis
ease.I 1t would be just as reasonable to
expect, if a pest-house were set across
Broadway and countless thousands were
compelled to 90 through its pestilential
doors, and escape from contagion and
disease, as for one 10 expect the blood to
escape pollution when constantly RAINING
through diseased kidney.
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 If muscle, tissue,
flesh and bone, from your head to your
feet. And whenever, from hereditary in
fuence or otherwise, some part of the
bony is weaker than another, a countless
train of diseases is established, such as
consumption, in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
where there is a delicate stomach; ner-
vousness, insanity, paralysis or heart dis
ease in those who have weak nerves.
The heart m,tst soon feel the effects Of
the poison, as 1t 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 it's
endeavor to crowd the impure blood
through this obstruction, causing pain,
palpitation, or an out-of-breath feeling.
Unatural as this forced labor is the heart
must soon falter, becoming weaker until
one day it suddenly stops, and death fro...
apparent heart disease is the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned and
dignifed, called these diseases by high
sounding names, treat them alone, and
patients die, for the arteries are carrying
slo,o death to the affected part, constant
ly adding fuel brought from these suppu-
rating, pus-laden kidneys which here in
our wash bowl are very putrefaclion 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, q 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 character that the organs are rot
ten, and yet they have seuer there had a
pain nor an ache
Why? Because the disease begins, as
we have shown, in the interior of the kid
ney where there are fssc nerves of feeling
to convey the sensation of pain. Why