The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-15

eight years, concerning disorders of the human
kidneys and the organs which diseased kidneys
so easily break downa You are conducting a
scientific paper, and are unprejudiced except IN
favor of truth It is needless 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 sustain to the general
health. and how much is dependent upon them,
we propose. metaphorically speaking, to take
one from the human body. place it in the wash
bowl before us, and examine it for the public
benefit.
You will imagine that we have before US a body
shaped like beam 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. small organY you say. But I'M
derstand, the body of the average size man con-
| tains about ten quarts of blood. of which every
drop passes through these filters or sewers, as
they may be called many times a day. as often as
through the heart. making a complete revolution
in three minutes. From the blood they separate
the waste material, working away steadily night
and day, sleeping waking, treless as the heart
itself. and fully of as much vital importance re-
moving impurities from sixty-ive gallons OF
blood each hour. or about forty nine barrels eacn
| day, or 8, 125 hogshead year What a wonder
that the kidneys can last any length of time I'M
der this prodigious STRAIN treated and neglected
as they are
We slice this delicate organ open lengthwise
with our knife, and will roughly describe its in
| terror.
We find it to be of reddish brown color, soft
and easily torn; filed 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 consld
cradle size, which is called the plevs, or, roughly
speaking. sac. which is for the purpose of hold
| ing the water TO further undergo publication be-
| fore it passes down from here into the ureters,
and so on, to the outside of the body. These lit
tie tubes are tho 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 the slightest irregularity in
our habits, from cold, from high living, from
| stimuants 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 collects in
the pelvis sac; the tubes are at first partially,
| and soon totally unable to do their work.
The pelvic sack goes on distending with this cor
| ruption, pressing upon the blood vessels. All
| this time remember, the blood which is enter
ing the kidneys to be filtered, is passing through
| this terrible, disgusting pus. for 1t cannot take
| any other route.
Stopand think of it for a 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 es-
cape diseased 1t would be just reasonable to
expect, if pest-house were set across Broadway
| and countless thousands were compelled to go
through its pestilential DOORS escape from
contagion and disease, as for one to expect the
| blood to escape pollution when constantly run
| ming through a diseased kidney
| Now, what is the result2 Why that the blood
takes up and deposits this poison as it sweeps
| along into every organ. into every inch Of mus
| Gle, tissue, flesh and bone, from your head to
your feet. And whenever, from hereditary in
| fuence or otherwise some part of the body is
| weaker than another, a countless train of dis
| eases is established. such consumption in
| weak lungs. dyspepsia, where there is delicate
stomach; nervousness, insanity, 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 1t increases it's stroke in number
and force to compensate for the natural stimulus
wanting, In its endeavor to crowd the impure
blood through this obstruction, causing pain,
palpitaton. an out-of-breath feeling. Unnat-
ural as this forced labor is. the heart must soon
falter, becoming weaker and weaker until one
day 1t suddenly stops, and death from apparent
'heart disease" is the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned and digni-
fed, call these diseases by high sounding names,
treat them alone and patients die, for the AFTER
les are carrying slow death to the affected part.
constantly adding fuel brought from these sup
purating pusladen kidneys which here in our
washbowl are very putrefaction itself, and which
should have been cured first
But this is not all the kidneys have to do, for
1nrf Ir16&
seven pounds of nourishmenJ every twenty -four
hours to supply the waste of the body which is
constantly going on, waste equal to the guam
tity taken. This. too, the kidneys have to sep
arate from the blood. with all other decompos-
ing matter
But you say, ''My kidneys are all right I
have no pain in the back" Mistaken man! Peo-
pie die of kidney disease of so bad character
that the organs are rotten, and yet they have
never there had a pain nor an ache.
Why? Because the disease begins, as we have
shown, in the interior of the kidney, where there
are few nerves of feeling to convey the sensation
of pain. Why this is so we may never know.
When you consider their great work the deli
cacy of their structure, the ease with which they
are derauged. can you wonder at the ill-heaIth of
our men and women9 Health and long life can
not be expected when SO vital organ is inn
paired. No wonder some writer's say we are de-
generating. Don't you see the great the ex-
treme Importance of keeping this mac hinery in
working order2 Could the finest engine do even
a fractional part of this work without attention
from the engineer? Don't you see how danger
GUS this hidden disease isl 1t is lurking about
constantly. without giving any indication of
its presence
The most skillfnl physicians cannot detect it
at times, for the kidneys themselves cannot be
examined by any means which we have at our
command. Even an analysis Of the water,
chemically and microscopcally. 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 it's origin in the
breaking down of these secreting tubes in the in
terror of the kidney.
AS you value health as you desire long life