Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-12-25
oclHMTsFIc TRUTH
Regarding the Functions OF
an Important Organ.
or which the Public Knows But Hdt-
tle.- werthy Careful COnsideraticn.

To the Editor of the Scientific american:
VIA YOU permit US to make knoWn to the
ptsb!ic the facts we hare learned during the
past s years, concerning disorders Of the
human Kidneys and the organs whsch dts-
eused kidneys so easily break dorn. You
are conducting scientific paper and are
unpreudiced except in favor Of TRUTH. II
70 useless to say no medical Journal Of
"Code" Standing ,rould admit these facts
for rery Obvious reasons.
Fl. II. WARNER d CO.,
Proprietors of Warmers Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation lie kidneys sustain
to tn. general health, and how much is
dependent upon them, VS. propose, met
aphorically speaking, to take one from
the hum IN body, place in the wash
bowl before US, and examine it for the
public benefit.
You will imagine that we have before
us body shaped like bean, smooth
and glistening. about four inches in
length, two in width and one in thick
ness. 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 contains about
ten quarts of blood, Of phich erery drop
passes through these filters or Sewers, as
they may be called, many times a day,
as often as the heart, making complete
revolution in three minutes. From the
blood they separate the waste material,
working away steadily night and day,
sleeping or waking, tireless as the heart
(,,t1. - l. rtor
removing impurities from sixty-tive gal
Ions of blood each hour, or about forty
nine barrels each day, or 9,l25 hogs
kidneys can last any length of time
under this prodigious strain, treated and
neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise with our knife and will rough
ly describe it's interior:
We find it to be of reddish-brown
color. soft and easily torn. filled with
hundreds of little tubes, short and
thread-like, starting from the arteries,
ending in little tuft about midway from
the outside opening of O cavity of con-
siderable size, which is called the pelvis,
or, roughly speaking, sack, which 10
for the purpose of holding the water to
further undergo publication before it
passes down from here into the ureters,
and SO on to the outside of the body.
These little tubes are the filters which
do their work automatically, and right
here is nhere the disease Of the kidney first
begins.
Doing the vast amount Of work which
they are Obliged to, from the slightest
jrregularitv in our habits, from cold,
from high living, from stimulants or q
thousand and one other causes which
occur every day, they become 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 col
lects in the pelvis or sac; the tubes are
Mt first partially, and soon are totally,
unable to do their work. The pelvic
sac goes on distending with this corrup-
ton, pressing upon the blood vessels.
All this time, remember, the blood,
which is entering the kidneys to be FL
tered, is passing through this terrible, dis
gushing pus, for it cannot take any other
route
Stop and think of it for moment.
Do you realize the importance. nay the
vital necessity, OF having the kidneys in
order7 Can you expect when they are
diseased or obskructed, no matter how
little, that you can have pure blood and
escape disease' 1t would be just as rea-
sonabe to expect, ii a pest house were
set across Broadway and countless thou
sands were compelled to 60 through it's
pestilential doors. and escape from coDta-
gion and disease, as for one to expect
the blood to escape pollution when con-
stantly running through diseased kid
ney.
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,
iesh and bone, from your head to your
teet. And whenever, from hereditary
influence or otherwise, some part of the
body is weaker than another, countless
train OF diseases is established, such as
consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
where there is q delicate stomach;
nervousness, insanity, paralysis or heart
disease in thoae who have weak nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects Of the
poison, as IL requires pure blood TO keep ii IN
right action. 1t increases its stroke in
number and force to compensate for the
natural stimulus wanting, in its en-
deavor to crowd the impure blood
through theis obstruction, causing pain,
palpitation, or an out-of- breath feeling.
Unnatural as this forced labor is, the
heart must soon falter, becoming weaker
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