The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11

to sag, no medical journal of "Code'
standing a0o,ald admit these facts, foy
very Obvious reasons.
III. II. WARNER d: CO.,
Proprietors of" Warraer's Safe Cure. u
That we may emphasize and clearly ex
plain 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 bsfore US, and examine it for
the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have before
as body shaped like bean, smooth and
gllstening, 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 uhich every drop passes
through these filters or seaUe1.s, as thew
may be called, many times day, as
often as through the heart, making a
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 Importance; removing impurities
from 65 gallons of blood each hour, or
about 40 barrels each day, or 9, 125 hogs
heads year What wonder that the
kidneys can last any length of time under
this prodigious strain, treated and ne
elected as they arel
We slice this delicate organ omen
lengthwise with our knife, end 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 a cavity of con-
siderable size which is called the pelvis
or, roughly speaking, a sac, which is for
the purpose of holding the water to
further undergo publication before it
passes down from here into che 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 thous-
and and one other causes which occur
every day, they become somewhat weak
ened in their nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or
stoppa9e 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 cubes are at first
partially, and aoon are totally. unable TO
do their work. The pelvic sac goes on
distending with this corruption, pressing
upon the blood vessels. All this time.
remember, the blood, which is entering
the kidneys to be filtered, is passing
through this ter, ;ble, disgusting nus.
for it cannot take any other route
Stop and think of it for q moment,
Do You realize the Importance, nay the
vital necessity, of having the kidneys in
ordera 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, it a pest-house were