San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-02-23
THE ANCIENT GREEKS.
Their Belief Concerning the Seat
Of Love and Passion.
The Liver Regarded as the Favored Or
gan-How Could It Be SOP Recent
Facts Partly Confirm This Belief.

The ancient Greeks thought the seat
Of love and passion was in the liver, and
In great measure their opinion was not
far astray. The lover whose liver Is off,
or the husband who is bilious, is not half
q man-his sluggish liver has filled his
| blood with bile.
| or all the mean contemplate counter
| feits in the world, red blood full Of bile
lie the wOrst-the very worst.
We have about 10 quarts Of this duid in
the average size man. 1t is constantly
undergoing change and is manufactured
| from the food we daily consume
by q chemical process nature has. She
selects only that portion which, after
digestion, is found to be proper, and
takes it up by a tube called the thoracic
duct. emptying it into the larger vein
near the left collar bone, from which it
is at once carried 10 the kidneys TO be
strained of all the deleterious matter
which was left by the bowels.
II the kidneys are in healthy condition,
the blood is in an absolutely pure state,
contains all the elements for repairing
waste, returns at once to the heart and
Is lHTO"u NY lual W ONFly pa I
of the living body to give up its nour-
ishment and take up all the WORKOUT
material.
Contrary to general belief the liver Is
not blood-purifying organ; its purpose
Is only for nutrition digestion and IL Sc
cretes daily many pounds Of bile, some
being used in digestion and nutrition,
and the balance as a cathartiC.
Now, after being housed up all winter,
with meat largely composing the diet for
the purpose of producing heat, the liver
increases one-third of its supply of bile,
and in the spring, nature not having use
for the excess, il is thrown into the
blood, carried to the skin TOR it N lst be
got rid OF in some way) and causes that
condition known as "Dilious" when the
person is dull, lethargic, restless, we'll
today and half sick tomorrow ; because
the blood is loaded with this substance,
which is just as foreign to 1t as so much
dirt or corruption, and polsons the en-
tire body, making your blood impure.
You know there is something out of
gear and the natural impulse is to take
cathartics-but drastic cathartics do not
remove the cause-they make matters
worse.
You ask, why? Because, my friend,
the liver is a sluggish, lethargic organ
that cannot be relieved by any ailment
except by medicine which acts upon 1t in
quiet, steady manner, producing
permanent effects, and assisting,
not goading its normal action. The
kidneys do the purifying. AL
ways remember that. No other organ
in the body can take their place in this
respect, and they attend to over 5000
hogshead of blood in year! Think of
1t and wonder that they are able to do
| so large an amount of work.
A healthy kidney to purify, and
healthy liver, emptying its poison into
| the bowels and not into the blood, are
the true and only givers of pure blood.
The interior of the Kidneys have few
nerves of sensation, and a stone can be,
and often is present without any indi-
cation until it reaches the first outlet,
which is supplied with nerves that soon
sound the alarm.
Do you see the moral Of this ? A
healthy liver and kidneyis all there is to
this question OF pure blood. Keep them
IN order. Don't wait until you find
they are diseased, for then it may be too
late. Do this, and you are bound to have
pure blood. Warmers safe cure has
direct action upon both the kidneys and
liver. and has become q recognized agent
for its health preserving and blood
purifying properties, and as such is used
by many physicians. A few bottles will
positively prevent disease, and We are
certain that disease of either organ is
prevented by its use. if taken in time.
The Spring approaches, and nature
needs help. Take it and save sickness
and doctors bills. Don't let any season
go by without its use, or you may regret
II forever,