The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-15
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS.

Ta ths esr1 sns Por
trayed. '
I'm the editorial columns of tho New York Ana,yst
n. Lassing. II. D., editor writes the following beautE
tul description OF the laboratories Of the human
! trustworthy onel
"Man is the greatest Of all chemical labor
atories. Magnify the smallest cell Of the body
and what a factory Is spread before the eyes
counties chambers in which are globes OF
air, masses Of solid matter, globules Of dying
liquid; a flash comes and the whole is con.
suned and needful heat is carried into every
part Of the system. Electrical forces also
generate and are conveyed to the brain, the
muscles and the various nerve centres.
~"In another set Of million chambers We
see various gases and vapors. By chemical
action these arc changed and purified in the
lungs and the skin. The blood we often say
Is great living river. In its current arc
masses which the air in the lungs did not af-
feet: blocks Of chalk; slabs of tartar; pie; es
Of Done-ash, strings Of albumen; drops Of
molasses. and lines Of alcohol. How are
where you will in this great stream, you
must come to the purifying places of the sys.
tenn. Here Is oil 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 larger reservoir, which regularly dis
charges its contents.
This separation of lime, uricacid and other
waste material from the blood, without rob-
bing it of a particle of the life fluid. passes
human comprehension. In health this blood,
purifying process is carried on without our
knowledge. The organs in which it is done
arc faithful servants whose work is silent as
long rs health remains.
People strangely wait until pain strikes
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 organs with the brain.
They may not gnaw and bite as does the
tooth-ache or scratch, but they regularly,
silently report. When these organs are fail
ing these nerves indicate it by drawing the
blood from the face and check, leaving the
lip and eye blanched, by sending uric acid
becoming gray, yellow or brown. They also
prevent the publication of the blood in the
lungs and cause pulmonary difficulties, weari-
ness and pain. Who enjoys perfect health,
especially in this land where we burn the
candle in one massl The athlete breaks down
in the race; the editor falls at his desk; the
merchant succumbs in his counting-room.
These events should not have been un-
expected, for nature long ago hung
OuV VI Tucu Iu9
accident" finally comes, its fatal effect is
seen in hundred forms; either as conges-
tion, chronic weakness, as wrong action, as
variable appetite, as head troubles, Us palpi-
tation 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 gen.
eral debility. blood poisoning, etc.
"Put no faith then in the wiseacre who
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pain. Put no faith in the physician, who
ever he may be, who says 1t Is amere cold
or slight indisposition. He knows little, if
any, more than you do about it. He can
neither see nor examine these organs and de-
pends entirely upon experimental tests, that
You can make as well as he.
''If the output is discolored or muddy, if it
contains albumen, lymph, Crystals. sweet or
morbid matter, is red with escaped blood, or
roilv with gravel, mucus and froth, some.
thing 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 system,
the ones in which large majority OF human
ailments originate and are sustained, are the
kidneys They have not been much discussed
in public, because it is conceded that'th pro-
tessior has little known power over them.
w udb 10 WduUcQ lOT SlCu OTBduS Is u SllIlple
medicine, which can do no harm to the most
delicate, but must be of the greatest benefit
to the afflicted. Such a remedy, tried
md 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 iD
{whom the seeds slre soNn and the beginning
Of illness started it is an unfailing reliance
It may be recommended to the well to pre-
vent sickness, and the sick to prevent DEATH,
With its aid the great flltering engines 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 threshold"
Such writing ought not only to please, but
to carry conviction that what Editor Lass
ing, M. D.-so high an authority-says is
true, and that his counsel is worthy the at
tention and heed of all prudent, right
minded people.