Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-24
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS.
The Fearful and Wonderful; Mechanism Of
Tile Human System Graphically PORTRAYED.

The Fearful and Wonderful; Mechanism of
The Human System Graphically Portrayed
lin the editorial columns of the New York An
alyst h. Lassng, N. D., editor. writes tie follow
ing beautiful description of the laboratories of the
| human system. We think we have never read
inner or more trustworthy one.
"Man is the greatest of all chemical
laboratories. Magnify the smallest cell of
Of the body and what a factory is spread
before the eyes countless chambers in
which are globes of air, masses of solid
matter, globules of dying liquid; flash
comes and the whole is consumed and
needful heat is carried into every part of
the system. Electrical forces also gener-
ate and are conveyed to the brain, the
muscles and the various nerve centers.
In another set of a million chambers we
| see various gasses and vapors. By chem
| 1cal action these are changed and purified
IN the lungs and the skin. The blood we
often say IS great living river. In its
current are masses which the air in the
lungs did not affect; blocks of chalk; slabs
OF tartar; pieces of bone-ash strings of
albumen; drops of molasses, and lines of
alcohol How are these waste masses dis
posed of? Begin where you will in this
great stream you must come to the puri-
tying places of the system. Here is all
activity and an invisible force reaches out
into the stream, seizes and carries this
mass OF waste into vast trenches, thence
INTO a smaller reservoir, and finally into a
larger reservoir, which regularly dis
! charges It's contents.
Inns separation of lime, uric acid and
other waste material from the blood with
out robblng it of particle of the life
hu1d, passes human comprehension. In
health this blood, purifying process is
carried on without our knowledge. The
organs in which it is done are faithful
servants whose work is silent as long as
health remains.
people strangely wait until pain strikes
a nerve before they will realize that they
have any trouble. They do not know that
pain concerns chiefly the exterior not the
interior of the body. A certain set of
nerves connect these blood-purifying Or
gans with the brain, They may not gnaw
and bite as does the tooth-ache or a
scratch, but they regularly, silently re-
port When these organs are falling these
nerves indicate it by drawing the blood
from the face and cheeks, leaving the lip
and eye blanched, by sending uric acid
poison into the smallest veins, the skin
then becoming gray, yellow or brown.
Ihey also prevent the publication of the
blood IN the lungs and cause pulmonary
dlthcult1es, WEAKNESS and pain. Who en-
Joys perfect health, especially in this land
where we burn the candle in one mass?
The athlete breaks down in the race; the
editor falls at his desk; the merchant sue
cumbs IN his counting These events
should not have been unexpected for ne
ture long ago hung out her "Ianterns of
alarm" When the accident" finally
comes, its fatal effect is seen in hundred
forms; either as congestion, chronic weak
ness, as wrong action, as variable APP
petite, as head troubles, as palpitation and
Irregularities of the heart, as premature
decay, as dryness and harshness of the
skin causing the hair to drop out or turn
gray, as apoplexy, as paralysis, as general
debility, blood poisoning, etc.
'Put no faith then in the wiseacre who
says there is no danger as long as there is
no pain. Put no faith in the physician,
whoever he may be, who says it is a mere
cold or a slight indisposition. He knows
little if any, more than you do about it,
He can neither see nor examine these
organs and depends entirely upon expert
mental tests, that you can make as well as
he.
IF the output is discolored OF muddy,
if it contains albumen, lymph, crystals,
| sweet or morbid matter, is red with es-
capped blood, or roily with gravel, mucus
and froth, something is wrong and disease
and death are not far away.
'"These organs which we have described
thus at length, because they are really the
most important ones in the human sys-
TEN, the ones in which a large majority
of human ailments originate and are sus-
tanned, are the kidneys. They have not
been much discussed in public because it
is conceded that the profession has little
known power over them. What is wanted
for such organs is a simple medicine,
which can do no harm to the most deli
cate but must be of the greatest benefit to
the afflicted. Such a remedy, tried and
proved by many thousands all over the
world is Warmers safe cure. With those
in whom disease is deep seated it is the
only specific. For those in whom the
seeds are sown and the beginning Of ILL
ness started it is an unfailing reliance. 1t
may be recommended to the well to pre-
vent sickness and the sick to prevent
death. With its aid the great filtering en-
gIpes of the system keep on in their silent
work without interruption; without it they
get out of gear and then disease and
death open the door and cross the thr esh
old"
Such writing ought not only to please
| but to carry conviction that what Editor
Lasslng, NJ. D.,-so high an authority
says is true, and that his counsel is worthy
the attention and heed of all prudent,
right-minded people.
Henry NJ Lewis of the Contemporary