The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06

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To the Editor Of The Scientific American:
VII you permit us to make kno,on TO the pub
lie the facts zoe hare learned during the post 8
years, concerning disorders Of the human Atd-
'aeys and the organs which diseased Kidneps so
easily break doaonF You are conducting Sci
entJfc paper, and are unprejudiced except in
tdvor Of Truth. II is needless TO say, no med
ical Journal of "COde' standing tcould ddsnu
these facts, for very obVious reasons.
H. II. WARNER d 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 u.s. and examine it for the public BEN
eft.
You will imagine that we have before us
body shaped like bean, smooth and
glistening, about four inches in length, two
In width, and one in thickness. 1t ordi-
narlly weighs in the adult male, about five
| ounces, but is somewhat lighter in the fe-
male. A small organl you say. But I'M
derstand, tho body of the average size man
| contains about ten quarts Of blood, Of which
eOerR drop passes through these filters or SeIcerS,
as they may be called, many times day, as
| often as through the heart making COM
| plete 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 it
self, and fully ofas much vital Importance
removing impurities from sixty-five gallons
| OF blood each hour, or about forty-nine bar
rels each day, or 9, 1875 hogsheads yearl
| 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 a 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 out
side opening into a cavity of considerable
size, which is called the pelvis, or, rough
| ly-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 out
side Of the body. These little tubes are
the filters, which 20 their work automat-
ically, and right here is ,ctere the disease of the
afdnsy first begins.
Doing the vast amount Of work which
| they are obliged to- from the slightest ir-
| regularity in our habits, from cold from
| high living, from stimulants or q thousand
and one other causes which occur every
| day, they become somewhat weakened in
| their nerve force.
What is tho RESULT Congestion or stop
| page of the current of blood in the small
| blood vessels surrounding them, which be-
| come blocked these delicate membranes
are irritated; 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 distendng with this
corruption, pressing upon the blood YES
| sels All this time, remember, the blood,
which is entering the kidneys to be fl
tered, is passing through this terrible, disgust
ing puS, for it can not 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 order!
| Can you expect when they are diseased or
| INSTRUCTED, no matter how little, that you
can have pure blood and escape diseased 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 result2 Why, that the
| blood takes up and deposits this poison as
| 1T sweeps along into every organ, into ev-
| cry inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone,
from your head to your feet And when
| ever, from hereditary influence or other
wise, some part of tho body is weaker than
another, countless train of diseases is es-
| tabllshed, such as consumption in weak
| lungs, dyspepsia, where there is a delicate
| stomach; nervousness insanity paralysis
or heart disease in those who have weak
| nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects of the pot
son, as ii requires pure blood 10 keep ii in right
action. 1t increases its stroke in number
and force to compensate for the natural
| stimulus wanting in its endeayor to crowd
| an INN alN,%,,,
| causing pain, palpitation, or an out-of-
| breath feeling Unnatural as this forced
| labor is, the heart must soon falter becom-
ing weaker and weaker until one day il
suddenly stops, and death from apparent
"heart disease is the verdict.
| But the medical profession, learned and
| dignifed, call these diseases by high-sound.
| ing Names treat them alone, and patients
| die for the arteries are carrying SIoW 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 nour-
ishment every twenty-four hours to supply
| the waste of the body which is constantly
| going on, a waste equal TO the quantity
| taken in. This, too, the kidneys have to
| separate from the blood, with all other do
| composing matter.
But you say: my kidneys are all right
| / have no pain in the back" Mistaken
man! People die of kidney disease of SO
bad character that the organs are rotten,
and yet they have neVer there had pain nor
| an ache!
I Whyl Because the disease begins as we
have shown in the interior of the kidney,
| where there are fen nerveS IF 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 women2
| Health and long life can not be expected
when so vital an organ is impaired. No
wonder some writers say we are degener-
ating. Don't you see the great the ex-
| tremefmportance of keeping this machin-
} cry in working orderi Could the finest
engine do even a fractional part of this
work, without attention from the engi-
neeri Don't y ou see how dangerous this
hidden disease is? 1t is lurking about us
constantly, without giving any indication
| of its presence.
The most skillful physicians can not de-
tect it at times for The kidneys Themselves can
not be examined by any means which we
have at our command Even an analysis
of the water, chemically and microscopic
ally, reveals nothing definite in many
cases, even when the kidneys are fairly
| broken down.
Then 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
| t11baa in, fbo 1ntarioY. Of tba lid.