The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-10-30

Regarding the Yusssaoss Of ~ Inpostsas
Organ. Of Which the Public Knows bat
Litus-wosthy Careful Consideration.
TO ne Editor u u SetsrAVse Ansreor:
w! ysu p<rmts ~ to make k~oen to the psA-
I've ts Joets w hare learned during the post 8
gears, concerning disordvs Of TIE human Kid
"sys and The organs arhieh disedssd Kidneys "
easily break dorm? You are conducting a Sci
snnfc paper, and are unpretUdik.d except in
fdeor Of TRuTn. II is needless to say, no med
'eds Journal Of ''Codr' Standing rould admit
thee facts, for pery ob,iouS relsons.
H. H. WARNER d CO.,
Ifoprietors Of "HarHer's Safe Care.'
That we may emphasize and clearly ex.
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to |
the general health, and how much is do
pendent upon them, we propose, meta
Pnoricaily speaking, to take one from the
human body, place in the wash-bowl be.
Tore us, and examine it for the public BEN
eft.
You will imagine that we have before Us
q body shaped like u bean, smooth and
glistening, about four inches in length, two
IN width, and one in thickness. 1t ordi-
narily weighs in the adult male, about five
ounces, but is somewhat lighter in the fe-
male. A small organ. you say. But un-
derstaDd, the body OF the average size man
contains about ten quarts Of hood, Of rhieh
e,erv drop passes Through these filters or sepers,
as they may b. called, many times a day, a.
often as through the heart, making a COM
plste 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 It
self, and fully Of as much vital importance;
removing impurities from si1ty-tive gallons
Of, blood each hoxr, or about forty-nine bar
rels each day, or alps hogsheads O year
What a wonder that the kidneys can last
any length Of time under this prodigious
strain, treated and neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly de-
scribe its interior.
We find it to be of q reddish brown
color, soft and easily torn; filled with
hundreds of little tubes, short and thread
like, starting from the arteries, ending in
q little tuft about midway from the out
opening into a cavity OF considerable
size, which is called the pelvis, or, rough
lv~-speaking, q sac, which is for the purpose
of holding tho water to further undergo
publication before it passes down from
here into the ureters. aud SO on to the out
side Of the body. These little tubes ara
the filters, which do their work antomat-
ically, and right here is rhere the disease Of The
ki9mv first 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 q thousand
and one other causes which occur every
day, they become somewhat weakened in
their nerve force.
What is the result! Congestion or stop.
page of the current Of blood in the small
blood vessels surrounding them, which be-
come blocked; these delicate membranes
arc irritated; Inflammation is set up, then
M iS fCrnad Whioh pOlt0Otc in tho na1vic
or sac; the tubes are at first partially, and
soon are totally, unable to do their work.
The pelvic sac goes on distepdiug. with this
corruption, pressing upon the blood YES
sels. All this time, remember, the blood,
which is entering the kidneys to be fl
tered, ispassins through this terrible, disgust.
ing pus, for it can not 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 order!
Can you expect when they are diseased or
obstr lcted, no matter how little, that you
can have pure blood and escape dEtases 1t
would he just as reasonable to expect, il a
peSt-houSe we're set across Broadway and
countless thousands were compelled to 60
through its pestilential doors, an escape
from contagion and disease, as for one to
expect tho blood to escape pollution when
constantly running through a diseased
kidney.
Now, what is the RESULT Why, that the
blood takes up and deposits this poison as
it sweeps along into every organ, into ev-
cry inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone,
from your head to your feet. And when
ever. from hereditary influence or other
wise, some part Of tho body is weaker than
another, a countless train Of diseases is es-
taDlished, such as consumption in weak
lungs, dyspepsia, where there Is q delicate |
stomach; nervousness, insanity, paralysis
NJ - a ri Il co ncN in fhnSA Crhn h1vA Unal- |
nerves.
The heart must soon feel tn fleets Of The poi
sou. az il requires pure blood 10 keep It in right
action. 1t increases its stroke in number
and force to compensate for the natural
stimulus wanting, in its e%ndeavor to crowd
the impure blood through this obstruction,
causing pain, palpitation, or an out-ot.
breath feeling. Unnatural as this forced
labor is, the heart must soon falter, becom-
ing weaker and weaker until one day it
snddsn'g stops, and death from apparent
"heart disease is the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned and
dignitied, call these diseases by high sound.
ing names, treat them alone, and patients
die, for the arteries are carrying sloG deaM 10
the affected part. constantly adding fuel
brought from these suppuratlng. pus-laden
kidneys which here in our wash-bowl are
very putrefaction itself, and which should
nave been cured first.
But this is not all the Kidneys nave 10
do; for you must remember that each
adult takes about seven pounds of nour-
ishment every twenty-four hourst to supply
the waste Of the body which is constantly
going on, a waste equal to the quantity
taken in. This, too, the kidneys have to
separate from the blood, with all other do
composing matter.
But you say: MY kidneys are all right.
l have no pain in the back Mistaken
man. People die of kidney disease Of so
bad a character that the organs are rotten,
and yet they have nsrsr tirrs had u pal" nor
an urhe.'
Why' Because tho disease begSs. as we
have shown, in the interior Of the kidney,
where there are ftc nsrees Of teeliny to convey
the sensation OF pain. why this is so We
nav never know.
When you consider their great work, the
d~elicacy of their structure, the ease With
they are deranged, can You wonder
Mt the H. health Of our men and wonenf
Health aud long life can not be expected
when so vital an organ is impaired. No
wonler some writer's saw we are degener-