The National tribune., 1886-04-22
LIVER DISEASES.

The writer desires to preface the considera-
tion of the diseases mentioned at the head OF
this article by saying that the truthfulness of
the theories which he is about to advance has
been confirmed by vast experience embracing
the successful treatment of thousands Of cases,
snd he therefore promulgates his views with
out fear of their being successfully controversial
He holds that to a congested, torpid and dis
eased liver eau be traced many, diseases of di-
verse symptoms and affecting various organs.
Many Of these diseases are usually treated as if
primary affections both physician and patient
being doomed TO disappointment by an utter
lack of favorable results; for to treat disease
successfully we must have clear conception of
its true nature.
The Housebeeper" Of Health.
The liver is the largest gland in the human
system. It is the great purifying organ Of the
system, and has very appropriately been termed
the "housekeeper" of our health. The impor-
tance of the liver as blood purifying and ex-
cretory organ cannot be oyerestimated.
The foul and morbid matter absorbed from
the various tissues, and taken into the blood, is
received therefrom by a healthy liver and con-
verted into bile. When the liver becomes tor
pid OF congested, it fails to eliminate this vast
amount of noxious substance, which, therefore,
remains TO poison the blood and be conveyed to
every part of the system. Nature tries to work
of this poison through other cannels and Or
gsrs-tha lungs skin, etc.-but these organs
become oyertaxed in performing this labor, in
addition to their natural functions, and cannot
long withstand the pressure, but become vari-
ously diseased.
Heart Disease.
The blood, surcharged with daily accumu-
lated poison as the result of torpor of the liver
unduly stimulates the nerves of the heart and
produces chronic irritation, palpitation, or ex-
element of that organ, developing forms of
heart disease.
Dyspepsia and Costiveness.
The stomach and bowels cannot escape be-
coming affected, as direct result Of liver dis
ease and costiveness. hemorrhoiis, dropsy, dys-
persia, or diarrhea, and many other forms of
chronic disease, are among the natural results
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Sick Headache.
The brain is not properly refreshed and stimu-
lated by the unhealthy blood; hence dizziness,
dizziness. sick headache, billions headache,
sleepy or nervous feelings, gloomy forebodings,
and irritability of temper
Skin Diseases.
The blood-poiscu, not being worked off by
The liver, when that organ is diseased or slug
gish, accumulates, and filtering through the skin
becomes SO acrid as to produce blotches. pimples
eruptions, pustules, scaly incrustations Jumps,
inaamed patches, acne, impetigo, prurigo,
psoriasis, salt-rheum, letter; or, becoming still
more virulent. the poison breaks out in boils
carbunces ulcers CO old sores, that are difficult
30 heal
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Scrofulous Diseases.
A long series of diseases, commonly known as
scrofulous, is caused by torpor of the liver-the
want of proper excretion of the poisonous, fes-
tering matter circulating in the blood. These
cause swelIings about the neck enlarged tonsils,
scrofulous sore eyes, running ulcers, discharges
from the ears, catarrh or ozena, fever-sores,
white swellings, hip-joint disease, liberation of
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Consumption.
The bile-poisoned blood, resulting from faulty
action of the liver, passes from the upper and
right cavity of the heart to the lower cavity,
thence directly to the lungs, circulating through
all parts Of these most delicate organs. The
tissues of the lungs are poisoned and irri-
tated, and thus invite the scrofuous humors
with which the blood is burdened In this way
consumption, which is scrofula of the lungs so
defined by all the most scientific authors, is
established.
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Bronchitis.
The bile-poisoned blood is in a measure oxy-
genized and purified by the lungs; but in this
effort these organs are overworlled and irri-
tated, and the foul blood poison may be smelIed
In the mans offensive breath. Nervous cough,
bronchitis and consumption itself, are the nat
ural results. The lungs would not have become
diseased had the liver done its whole duty.
Asthma