The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-11-19

WORTHY CAREFUL CONSIDERATION.
10 the Editor of tie Scientific
american
VtU you permit ,ts TO make k,so,on
10 the public The facts zoe hare learned
during The past gears concerning
disorders Of the human Kidneys and
The organs achich diseased Kidneys so
easily break doacn9 You are conduct
ing q Scientific paper, and are IN.
prGmdiced except in .tavor Of Truth
10 IS needless 10 say, no medical
Journal of "Code" standing could
admit these facts, for oery o6oious
reasons.
H. H. JVARNER % CO.,
Proprietors Of" IVdrner's ,Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clear
ly explain the relation the kidneys sus-
tain to the general health, and how
much is dependent upon them, we pro-
pose, metapborically speaking, to take
one from the human body, place it in
the wash-bowl before us and examine
it for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have be-
fore us body shaped like bean,
smooth and glistening, about four inch
es in length, two in width, and one 10
thickness. 1t 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 con-
tains about ten quarts Of blood, Of
ach5ch eoery drop passes through these
fiters or se,cers, as they may be called,
many times day as often as through
the heart, making complete revolution
in three minutes From the blood
they separate the waste material, work
ing away steadily night and day, sleep
ing or waking, tireless as the heart it.
self, and fully of as much vital import
ance removing Impurities from sixty
five gallons Of blood each hour, or
about forty-nine barrels each day, or
9, 125 hogshead year. What won
der that the kidneys can last any length
of time under this prodigious strain,
treated and neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate orcan open
lengthwise with our knife, ard will
roughly describe its interior.
We find it to be of reddish-brown
color, soft and easily torn; filled with
hundreds of little tubes, short and
threadlike, starting from the arteries,
euding in little tuft about midway
from the outside opening into cavity
of considerable size, which is called the
pelvis or, roughly speaking, sac,
which is for the purpose of holding
the water to further undergo puritica-
ton before it passes down from here
into the ureters, and so on to the out
side of the body. These little tubes
are the filters which do their work
automatically, and right here is aohere
the disease Of tie 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 stim-
ulants or thousand and one other
causes which occur every day, they be-
come somewhat weakened in their
nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or
stoppage 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 tuoes
are at first partially, and soon are to-
tally, 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
terrible disgusting pus, for it cannot
take any other route
Stop and think of it for a moment.
Do yon realize the Importance nav the
vital necessity, of having the kidneys
in order? 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, if pest
house were set across Broadway and
countless thousands were compelled to
go through its pestllential doors, an
escape from contagion and disease as
for one to expect the 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 every inch of muscle,
tissue, flesh and bone, from your
head to your feet. And whenever
from hereditary influence or other
wise, some part of the body is
weaker than another, countless train
of diseases is established, such as con
sumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia
where there is delicate stomach; nerv
onsness, insanity, paralysis or heart
disease in those who have weak nerves
THE heart must soon feel the effects
Of the poison, as IL requires pure blood
TO keep IL in right action. 1t inc, eases
its stroke in number and force to com
pensate TOR the natural stimulus want
ing, in its epdeavor to crowd the i'm
pnre blood through this obstruction
causing pain, palpitation, or an out of
breath feeling, Unnatural as this forced
labor is, the heart must soon falter, be
coming weaker and weaker until on'
day it suddenly stops, and death from
apparent "heart disease" is the verdict
But the medical profession, learned
and dignified, call these diseases by
high sounding names, treat them alon,
and patients die, for tie arteries an,
carrying slOao death to the dfeetec
part, constantly adding fuel brough
ircm these suppurating, pus-laden kid
neys which here in our wash-bowl ar,
very putrefaetion itself, and whicl
should have been cured first.
But this is not all the kidneys hav,
TO do; for you must remember tha
each adult takes about seven pounds o
nourishment every twenty-four hour
TO supply the waste of the body whicl
is constantly going op, a waste equa
TO the quantity taken. This. too, tn
kidneys have to separate from the bloo'
with all other decomposing matter
But you say, "my kidneys are al
right. | have no pain in the back,