The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-28
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.
Regarding the Functions of an
Important Organ.
O Which the Public Knows Bat Little, Worthy
Careful Consideration.

TO the Editor OF the Scientific American:
Will you permit us to make known
to the public the facts we have learned
during the past 8 years, concerning dis
orders of the human Kidneys and tho
organs which diseased Kidneys so east.
" break down? You are conducting
Scientific paper and are unprecedented
except in favor of TRUTH. It is need
less to say, no medical Journal of
"Code" standing would admit these
facts, for very obvious reasons.
H. H. WARNER & co.,
Proprietors of warmers Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation the kidneys sus.
tain to the general health, and how
much is dependent upon them, we pro-
pose 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 a body shaped like a bean,
smooth and glistening about four in.
ches in length, two in width, and one
in thickness. It 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 the average
size man contains about ten quarts
of blood, of which every drop
passes through these filters or sewers,
as they may be called, many times q
day, as often. as through the heart.
making complete revolution in three
minutes. From the blood they sepa-
rate 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
40 barrels each day, or 9,125
hogshead a year! What q 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
lengthwisc with our knife, and will
roughly describe It's 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 a little tuft about midway
from the outside opening into a cavity
OF considerable size, which is called
the pelvls or, roughly speaking, sac,
which is for the purpose of holding
the water to further undergo puritica-
ton 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 do their work au-
tomatically, and right here is where
the disease of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work
which they are obliged to, from tho
slightest irregularlty in our habits,
from cold, from high living, from slim.
u'ants 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; in
fiammation is set up, then pus is form
ed, which collects in the pelvis or sac;
the tubes are at first partially, and
soon are totally, unable to do their
work. The pelvis sac goes on distend-
ing with this corruption, pressing up
on the blood vessels. All this time,
remember, the blood, which is enter
ing 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 q moment.
Do you realize the Importance, nay
the vital necessity, of having the kid
neys in order? 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 pest-house were set across Broad
way and countless thousands were
compelled to 90 through it's pestilen.
tial doors, an escape from contagion
and disease, as for one to expect the
blood to escape pollution when con.
stantly 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 inch of muscle, It's
sue, flesh and bone, from your head to
your feet. And whenever, from hered-
itary influence or otherwise, some
part of the body is weaker than an
other, a countless train of diseases is
established, such as consumption in
weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there is
a delicate stomach; nervousness, in
sanity, paralysis or heart disease in
those who have weak nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects
OF the poison. as it requires pure blood
to keep it in right action. It in
creases it's stroke in number and force
to compensate for the natural stimu-
lus wanting, in its endeavor to crowd
the impure blood through this ob-
struction, causing pain, palpitation,
or an ut.of-breath feeling Unnat-
ural 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 dignitied, call these diseases by
high sounding names, treat them
alone, and patients die, for the arteries
are carrying slow death to the affected
part, constantly adding fuel brought
from these suppurating, pus. laden kid
neys 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 nourishm ent every twenty-four
hours to supply the waste of the body
which is constantly going on, 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. have no pain in the back"
Mistaken man! People die OF kidney
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