Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-21

ring the past . years, concerning UtSoT.
ders of The human Kidneys and the or
gans Which diseased Kidneys so easily
break do,onf You are conducting a
Scientific paper, and are unprejud,ced in
facor of TRUTH. 1t is needless 10 sag, no
medical journal of "Code" standing
,could admit these facts, for Uery obcious
reasons.
III. H. WARNER d co.,
i Proprietors Of" Warmers SAFE Cure. y
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 meta
phorically 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 body shaped like q bean, smooth
and glistening, about four inches in
J length, two in width and one in thick.
ness. 1t ordinarily weighs in the adult
male, about five ounces, but is somewhat
lighter in the female. A small organ,
you say? But understand, the body Of
the average size man contains about ten,
quarts of blood, of ,chich epery drop pass
es through these filters or setoers. as they
may be called, many times 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 or waking, tireless as
the heart itself, and fully of as much vi
tai importance; removing impurities
from sixty.five gallons of blood each hour,
or about forty.nine barrels each day, or
9l25 hogsheads year! What wonder
that the kidneys can last any length of
time under this prod.gious strain, treat
ed 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; 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 considerable size. which is called the
pelvis or, roughly 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 outside of the body
These little tubes are the filters which
| do their work automatically, and right
here is achere 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 stimulants or a
thousand and one other causes which
occur every day, they become somewhat
weakened in their nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or
stodpage Of the current of blood in the
small blo5d vessels surrounding them,
which become 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
vessels. All this time, remember, the
blood, which scattering the kidneys toibe
filtered, is passing through this terrible,
disgusting pus, for it cannot take any
other route
Stop and think of it for a moment. Do
you realize the importance, nay the vital
necessity, of having the kidneys in or.
der? Can you expect when they are
diseased or obstructed. no matter how
little, that you can have pure blood and
escape disease? 1t would be Just as
reasonable to expect, if a pest.house
were set across Broadway and countless
thousands were compelled to 60 through
its pestilential doors and escape from
contagiou and disease, as for one to ex-
pect the blood to escape pollution when
constantly running through diseased
kidney.
Now, what is the result? Why, that
the blood takes up and deposits this
poison as it sweeps along into every or.
gan, into every inch of muscle, tissue,
flesh and bone, from your head to your
| feet. And whenever, from hereditary in
fuences or otherwise, some part of the
body is weaker than another, a countless
train of diseases is established, such as
consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
where there is delicate stomach; ner-
vousness, 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 ii IN right action. 1t increases its
stroke in number and force to compen-
| safe for the natural stimulus wanting,
in its endeavor to crowd the impure
blood through the obstruction, causing
pain, palptation, 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
it suddenly stops, and death from appar-
Q It "heart disease" is the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned
and dignified, call these diseases by
high-sounding names, treat them alone.
and patients die, for the arteries are
carrying sloto 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 sup.
ply the waste of the body which is con-
stautiy 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" Mis-
taken man! People die of kidney dis
ease of so bad character that the or
gans are rotten, and yet they have necer
there had q pain nor an Iache!
Why? Because the disease begins, as
we have shown, in the interior of the
kidney, where there are fe,o nerves ofteel.
ing 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