The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-24
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
REGARDING THE FUNCTIONS OF
AN IMPORTANT ORGAN,
or Which the Pnblic Knows but
Little, Worthy Careful Con.
sidtratiOn.

To the Editor Of the Scientific American:
Will you permit US tl make known
to the public the facts We have learned
during the past eight years, concern.
ing disorders OF the human kidneys
and the organs which diseased kid
neys so easily bIesk down2 You are
conducting a scientific paper, and are
unprt JUDGED except in favor OF truth
1t is needlessto say, no med cal i1ur-
nal of "code" adding would admit
thee facts, for very obvious reasons.
II. II WARNER & CO.,
Projectors of Warmers Safe Cure"
Ihst we may emphasis and clearly
explain the relation the kidneys sus-
tain to the general health, and how
much is dependent upon them, We
propose, metaphorically speaking, to
take one from the human body, place
in the wash bowl before us, and ex-
anime it for the pubic benefit.
You will imagine that we have be-
fore us body shaped like bean,
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. A
small organ2 you say. But under
stand, the body Of the average size man
contains ten quarts OF blood, Of which
every drop passes through these filters
or sewers, as they may be called, many
times a day, as Of en- ss through
the heart, making complete
revolution in three minutes. From
the blood they separate the waste ma.
terial, 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-fve gallons Of blood each
hour, or about forty nine barrels each
day, or 9l25 hogsheads q year! What
wonder that the kidneys can last
any length of time under this prodigi-
GUS strain, treated aud 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 a reddish-brown
color, soft aud easily torn; filled with
hundreds of little tubes, short and
thread-like, starting from the arteries,
ending in a little tuft about mid.
way from the outside opening
into cavity OF considerable
Sis, which is called the pelvis
or, roughly speaking, sac, which
is for the purpose of holding the wafer
to further undergo publication before
it passes down from here into the ure-
ters, and 30 on to the outside of the
body. These little tubes are thu filters
which do their work automatically,
and right here is where the disease OF |
the kidney first begins.
Doing the vasE amount OF work |
which they are obliged to, from the |
slightest irregularity in our habits,
from cold, from high living, from
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 CT blood in
the small blood vessels surrounding
them, which become blocked; these
delicate membranes are irritated; in
hammation is set up, then pus is
formed, which collect in the pelvis or
sac; the tubes are at first partially,
and soon are totally, unable to do
their work. The pelvic eac goes on
with this corruption, press
Ing upon the blood vessels. All this
time, remember, the blood, which is
the kidneys to be filtered, is
passing through this terrible, disgust
ing 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 kid
neys in olderP Can you expect when
hey are diseased or INSTRUCTED, no
matter how little, that you can have
pure blood and escape disease? 1t
would be just as reasonable to expect,
i pestbouse were set across Broad
way and countless thousands were
to go through its pestilen-
ial doors, an escape from contsgion
md disease as for one to expect the
blood to escape pollution when con-
itantly running through a diseased
Kidney.
Now, what ID the result? Why,
hat the blood takes up and deposits
his poison as it sweeps along into
,very organ, into every inch of muscle,
Issue, flesh and bone from your head
% your feet. And whenever, from
Influence or otherwise,
ONE part of the body is weaker than
mother, countless train of diseases
8 established, such as consumption in
weak lungs; dyspepsia, where there is
8 a delicate stomach; nervousness,
insanity, paralysis or heart disease in
hose who have weak nerves.
The heart must coon feel the effects
# the poison, as it requires pure blood
o keep it in right action. 1t increases
Is stroke in number and force to COM
,ensate for the natural stimulus want
ng, in its endeavor to crowd the i'm
,ure blood through this obstruction,
ausing pain, palpitation, or an out Of
,reath feeling. Unnatural as this
creed labor is, the heart must soon
alter, becoming weaker and weaker
mil one day it suddenly stops, and
Ieath from apparent "heart disease"
) the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned
nd dignifed, call these diseases by
Ugh sounding names, treat them
lone, and patients die, for the
rteries are carrying slow death to the
feCted part, constantly adding fuel
rought from these suppurating, pus.
aden kidneys, which here in our
Vash bowl are very putrefaction itself,
nd which should have been cured
rst.
But this is not all the kidneys have
D do; for you must remember that
ach adult takes about seven nounda