The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-10-28

years, concerning disorders Of the Aunan Kid
neys and the organs mtich diseased hidnfysso
easily break doWnr You are conducting seien-
tile paper, and are unprejadicni ercept In taror
Of TRUTH. n is needless 10 say, no medical
Journal Of .Code'' standing ,could admit these
yde.s, for rery Obvious reasons.
II. Il. WARNER e CO.,
PrOprietors Of .Hdrner's 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.
metaphorically speaking. to take one
from the human body, place in the
wash-bowl before US, and examine it
for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have be-
fore us q body shaped like a bean,
smooth and glistening, 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 lighter in the female. A
small organ? you say. But under
stand, the body of tho average size
man contains about ten quarts OF blood.
Of which every drop passes through
these filters or seMcrs, as they may be
called, many times a day. as often as
through the heart, making q complete
revolution 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 impurities from
sixty-five gallons Of blood each hour, or
about forty-nine barrels each day, or
1926 hogshead year! What . wonder
that the kidneys can last any length OF
time under this prodigious strain,
treated and neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise with our knife, and will
roughly describe its interior.
We find it to be of reddish-brown
color, soft and easily torn; filled with
hundreds of little tubes, short and
thread 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 purincation
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 automat.
ically, and right here is Uhere the de-
ease of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work
which they are obliged to, from the
slightest irregnlarity 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 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 set up, then pus is formed, which col
lects 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 terri
bic, disgusting pus, for it cannot take
any other route!
Stop and think of it for q moment.
Do you realize the Importance, nay the
vital necessity, Of having the kidneys
in order3 Can you expect when they
are diseased or INSTRUCTED. no matter
how little. that you can have pure blood
and escape disease? It would be just
as reasonable to expect, if a pest-house
were set across Broadway and count
less thousands were compelled to go
through its pestilential doors, an es-
cape from contagion and disease, as for
one to expect the blood to escape pol
luton when constantly running
through a 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 muscle, tissue, flesh
and bone, from your head to your
feet. And whenever. from heredi-
tary influence or otherwise. some
part of the body is weaker than anoth-
or, q countless train of diseases is es-
tablished, such as consumption in weak
lungs, dyspepsia, where there is deli
cate stomach; nervousness, insanity,
paralysis or heart disease in those who
have weak nerves.
The heart must soon feel The effects o.
the poison, as it requires pure blood to
keep IL in right action. 1t increases iti
stroke in number and force to compen
safe for the natural stimulus wanting,
blood through this obstruction, caus-
ing pain. palpitation, or an ou.-of.
breath feeling. Unnatural as this forced
labor is, the heart must soon falter. be.
coming weaker and weaker until one
day it suddenly stops, and death from
apparent heart disease" is the yer.
dict.
But the medical profession, learned
and dignifed, call these diseases by
high sounding names, treat them alone
and patients die, for the arteries arr
carrying sloW 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 o.
nourishment every twenty -four hour!
to supply the waste of the body which
is constantly going on, waste equa
to the quantity taken. This, too, thu
kidneys have to separate from thu
blood with all other decomposing mat
ter.
But you say. "My kidneys are al
right. have no pain in the back.
Mistaken man! People die of kidne.
disease of SO bad a character that tn
organs are rotten. and yet they hay
neuer there had a pain nor an ache!
| Why? Because the disease begins
as we have shown, in the interior 9
the kidney, where there are teU ncrUe
Of feeling to convey the sensation Z
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