The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-09
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
OF Which the Public Knows But Littl'
Worthy Careful Consideration,

ing the past eight years. concerning uls
orders Of the human kidneys and the or
gans which diseased kidneys 90 easily
break DOWN. You are conducting a sci
entifc paper and are unprejudiced except
in favor OF truth, 1t Is needless 10 say
no medical Journal OF "code" standing
would admit these facts, for very obvious
reasons, H. H. WARNER & Co.,
PropTietors Of "Warner's Safe Cure"
That We may emphasize and clearly ex.
plain the relation the kidneys sustain "a
the general health, and how much Is de-
pendent upon them, we propose, meta
phorlcally speaking, to take one from the
human body, place in the wash-boWl be-
fore US, aud examine 1t for the public
benefit.
Yu1 will imagine that We have before US
q body shaped like q beam smooth and
glisteniug, about four inches in length,
two in width, and one in thickness. 1t or
dinarlly weighs in the adult male, about
i've ounces, but 10 somewhat lighter In the
female, A small orgGn2 you say, But
understand, 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,
nRuy times day, as often "a through the
heart, making complete revolution in
three minutes, From the blood they sep
aTate the waste material, working away
steadily night and day, sleeping or wax
ing, tlrslesa az the heart itseli, and fully OF
al much vital Importance; removing i'm
puritisH from sixty,Avs gallons Of blood
each hour, or about iorty.nine barrels
each day, or 0,l23 hogshead yearI What
a wonder thar the kidneys can last any
length Of time under this prodigious
1train, treated aud neglected as they aT02
WesliCe this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly de-
scribe It's interior,
We find il to be Of reddish,brown
color, soft and easily torn filed with hun
dreds OF little tubes, short ARd thread
like, starting from the arteries, ending in
4 little TUT about midway from tho out
side opening into cavity OF conslG-
cradle size, which Is called the pelvis or,
roughly speaking, q sac, which Ia for the
purpose Of holding the water to further
undergo publication before 1t passes from
there down into tbs ureters, and go on TO
the outside OF the body These little
tubes ara tbs tll!eTu which do their work
automNtirslIv, and right here Ia where
the disease frat begins.
Doing tho vast amount Of work which
they are obliged to, from tho slightes! r.
regularity in our habits, IRON cold, from
Ehigh living, from sumulauts or thousand
and one other causes which occur every
day, they become somewhat weakened
In thsir nerve force.
What Is the rOsu!tH Oongeatlon orEtop.
p'gs nj the CIiten. Of blood in the small
blood veEsels surrounding thom, which be.
come blocked; thtsi delicate membranes
are irrituted ii Elimination ia set up, then
pus is formed, which collects In the pelvic
or sac the tubCH are al first partially, aud
soon totally, unable to do their work
Tho pelviR sec goes on distending with
this corruption, pressing up5u tho blood
vctgels. All this time, remember, the
blood, which is entering the kidnsys 10 be
filtered, Is passiug through tlis terrible,
disgusting pu9, Tor /. cannot take any other
route!
Stop and think OF II for moment. Do
you realize the Importance, nay the vital
necessity, OF having the kidneys in order
Can you expect, Vhen they are diseased
and obstTuCted, no matter how little, that
you can have good blood and escape dis.
paseP 1t would be iuat Rs reasonable to
expect, II a pest. house were set across
Broadway and countless thousand were
compelled to go through It's presidential
doors, an escape from Contagion and dis.
eare, as for one to expect the blood to es-
cape pollution when constantly running
through diseased kidney.
Now, Whist Is the result? Why, that
the blood takes up and deposits this
poison as II sweeps alonginto every bryan,
into every inch OF muscle, tissue, flesh
aud bone, from your head TO your fest.
And whenever, IRON hereditary influence
or otherwise, gomo part OF the body Is |
weaker than another, countless train OF
tiiheaae1 10 established, such as consump-
ton in weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there
Is q delicate stomach nervousness, insanity,
paralysis or heart disease in these who
nave weak nerves. Tho heart must soon
ieol the effects oil the poison, as it requir-
co pure blood 10 keep 1t in right action.
1t increases its stroke In number and
force to compensate Tor the natural stlm.
ulua wanting, in It's endeavor to crowd
the impure blood through this obstruc.
ton, Carsing pain, palpitation, or an out.
Oi-breath feeling. Unnatural as this fore.
ed labor is, the heart must soop faltsf, be-
coming weaker and weaker until one day
Ont "heart disease" Is the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned and
diSni6ed, call these diseases by high
sounding namcs, treat thom alone, aud
patients die, for The arteries are carrying
SOU death 10 The affected part, constantly
adding fuel brought from inOae AunnuraE.
ing, put-!aden stlneys, which hero In our
wael IoYi are. very putrelaCtion itself,
and which should have been cured
frat,
Dut this ia not all the kidneys have to
do, for you muat remember that each
adult takes about seven pounds OF nour.
iahment every twenty-four hours to sup.
ply the wests Of the body which Is CON,
Ptantly going on, q waste equal 10 the
Quantity tak9n, This, too, the kidneys
have 70 separate from tho blood with all
other declmposing matter,
But you cay, MY kidneys arc all right.
have 40 pain In the back" Mistaken
man People die OF kidney disease Of so
bad o character that tho organs are rotten,
and yet they have never there had q pain
nor an aChel
Why2 BecSuso the disease begins, 40
We have shown, In the interior Of the kid.
ney, where there are tew ntrrts Of feeling 10
convey the sensation Of pain, Why this
10 30 we may MAYER know.
When you consider their great work,
the deliCacy Of their structure, the GAGE
with which they are deranged, can you
wonder al the iil.heslth OF our men and
womeu2 Health and long life cannot be
expected when 10 vital an organ is i'm.
paired. No wonder. some writer's say We
arc degenerating. Don't you see the
great, tho extreme Importance Of keeping
this machinery In working order2 Could
the lnest engine do even a fractional part
Of this work, without attention from the
onglneer7 Qop'tyou see how dangerous
this hidden disease Is Z It 10 lurking about
us Con1tantly, without giving any indlCa.
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