The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-11-18
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To the Editor of'the Scientific american !:
WM yOu permit rs TO make kno,on to
the public the facts voc haoe learned dur
ing the pact eight years, concerning disor-
ders Of the human Kidneys and the organs
sohich diseased Kidaeys so easily break
doom ? You are conducting a Scientific
paper, and are unprejudiced ercept in fu-
nor Of Truth. II Is needless to say, no
medical journal Of Code" standing
could admit these facts, for very obuios4s
reasons.
H. H. WARNER & CO.,
Proprietors Of" Warmers Sqre 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 wssh-b6wl
before us, and examine it for the public
benefit.
You will imagine that we have before
us body shaped like q bean, smoothed
and 6 glistening, about four inches 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 understand, the body of the average
size man contains about ten quarts of
blood, Of achich every drop passes through
these filters or sescers as they may be
called, many times a day, as often as
through the heart, making complete
revolution in three minutes. From the
blood they seperate the waste material,
working away steadily night and day,
sleeping or waking, tireless as the heart
itself, and fully of as much vital impor-
tance; removing impurities from sixty
five gallons Of blood each hour, or about
forty nine barrels each day, or 9, ,l25 hogs
heads year! What wonder that the
kidneys can last any length of time under
this prodigious strain, treated and neg
lected as they are.
lengthwise with our knife, and will rough
ly describe its interior.
We find it to be of a 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 out
side opening into cavity of considera-
BILE 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 &C. ON to
the outside of the body. These little
tubes are the filters which do their work
automatically, and right here is ,ohere the
disease Of the kidneyjfrst 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 a thousand
and one other causes which occur every
day, tlicy bcvvsuc svuIewisL wuukcr,l 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 or sac ; the tubes are at first
partially, and soon are totally, unable to
do their work. The pelvic sac goes on
distending with this corruption, pressing
upon the blood vessels. All this time, re-
member, the blood, which is entering the
kidneys to be filtered, is passing through
this terrible, disgusting pus, for it cannot
take any other route!
Stop and think OF it for 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 escape dis
ease? 1t would be just as reasonable to
expect, if a pest-house were set across
Broadway, and countless thousands were
compelled to 60 through it's pestilential
doors, an escape from contagion and dis
ease, as for one to expect the blood to es-
cape pollution when constantly running
through diseased kidney.
Now, what is the resultp Why, that
the blood takes up and deposits this poi
son as it sweeps along into every organ,
into every inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and
bone, from your head to your feet. And
whenever, from hereditary influence
or otherwise, some part of the body is
weaker than another, countless train of
diseases is established, such as consump-
tion 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 1t in right action. It increases its
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,
palpitation, or an out-of-breath feeling
Unnatural 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 {" lie the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned
and dignifed, call these diseases by high
sounding names, treat them alone; and
patients, die, for the 0rteries are carrying
slosc death to the affected part, constantly
adding fuel brought from these suppura-
ting, pus-laden kidneys which here in our
wash-bowl are very pntrefactlon 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 twen.y-fonr hours to sup.
ply the waste of the body which is con.
stantly going on, waste equal to the
quantity taken. This, too, the kidneys
have to separate from the blood with all
ofhor 6ecOmnoainU matter