The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-10-28
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.
Regarding the Functions Of an
Important Organ.
Dr. Which the Public Knows But Little, Worthy
Careful Confederation.

1f Which the Public Knows But Little, Worthy
Careful Consideration.
To the Editor ofthe Scientific Americans:
Will you permit us to make known
TO the public the facts we have learned
during the past 3 years, concerning dis
orders OF the human Kidneys and the
organs which diseased Kidneys SO east
ly break down? You are conducting a
Scientific paper and are appropriated
except III favor OF TRUTH. 1t is need
less to say, no medical Journal OF
Code" standing would admit these
facts, for very obvious reasons.
III. III. WARNER & CO.,
That we may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation the kidneys sus-
tain to the general health, and how
muth is dependent upon them, we pro-
pose metaphorically speaking, to take
one from the human body, place III
the wash-bowl before us, and examine
1t for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have be.
fore us body shaped like bean,
! smooth and glistening, about four i'll
ches i'll length, two in width, and one
in thickness. 1t ordinarily weighs i'll
the adult male, about five ounces, but
is somewhat lighter in the female. n
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 a
, day, as often as through the heart,
making a 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 year! What wonder
that the kidneys can last any length
OF time under this prodiglous strain,
trea ted 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 a reddish brown
color, soft and easily torn; filled with
hundreds of little tubes, short and
thread-like, starting from the rteries,
ending in q 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 purltica-
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 the
slightest irregularlty in our habits,
from cold, from high living, from slim
ulants or a thousand and one other
causes which occur every day, they
become somewhat weakened in theil
nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion OF
stoppage of the current OF blood in
the small blood vessels surrounding
them, which become blocked; these
dCIICdlS liiClIlDl tl1CS lIC IL All
Illumination 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 then
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 g moment
Do you realize the Importance, nay
the vital necessity, of having the kid
neys in order? Can you expect wheI
they are diseased Or INSTRUCTED, nc
matter how little, that you can have
pure blood and escape disease? Il
would be just = reasonable to expect
if a pest-house were set across Broad
way and countless thousands were
compelled to go through it's pestilen
tial doors, an escape from contagior
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 thi:
paison SIS it sweeps along into ever,
organ, into every inch of muscle, It's
sue, flesh and bone, from your head tt
your feet. And whenever, from hered
itary influence or otherwise, som,
part of the body is weaker than an
other, countless train OF diseases j:
established. such as consumption il
weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there !:
a delicate stomach; nervousness, in
sanity, paralysis or heart disease il
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 in
creases it's stroke in number and fore,
!, to compensate for the natural stimu
!. lus Wanting, In Its enaeavor to Grove
the impure blood through this Oh
struction, causing pain, palpitation
or an out of-breath feeling, pnnat
ural as this forced labor Is, the heart
must soon falter, becoming weake
and weaker until one day it suddenl,
stops, and death from apparen
"heart disease" is the verdict.
But the medical profession, Learned
, and dignitied, call these diseases b,
high sounding names, treat then
| alone, and patients die, for the arterie
are carrying slow death to the affected
part, constantly adding fuel brough
: from these suppurating, pus, laden kid
neys which here in our wash bowl ar
. very putrefaction itself. and whicl
should have been cured first.
But this is not all the kidneys hav
to do; for you must remember tina
: sach adult takes about seven pound
, of nourishm ent every twenty-fou
hours to supply the waste OF the bod!
; which is constantly going on, vast
equal to the quantity taken. This
: too, the kidneys have to separate from
, the blood with all other decomposin
matter.
J But you say, "My kidneys are al
2 right. have no pain in the back.
= Mist AIKEN man! People die OF kldne,
, disease of SO bad q character that tn
or-ans are rotten, and yet they hav
, never here had a. main nor n,,he'