Huntsville gazette., 1886-10-30
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| Dsgarding tAe Eu.ssso.s Il IN Inpsrt..s
Organ, of Which tho Pu4eac Knsws B1s
| Litsle-Worthy Cassfal Consideration
t. ~ Editor of ~ SeiesAiae AnserSeos:
| WI you pcvDsjt ~ to NAH ksoCs to the pub
lic the tdcts ~ hare learned during the past 3
vsers, conserving disorders Of Ne human KID
neys mad the organs ,ahieA dsseased Ksdsess -
sssdy break doarnf You are eopdxcts~g Ses.
ssstse paper, and are sapre'~dsesd ezespt "
| Tesos Of Truth. 1t is needless to soy, no med
zeal Journal of "Code'' standisa scoslld admit
these facts, for very obvioas reasons.
IT. IT. WARNER d CO.,
Proprietors Of "Waraer's Safe Cwrs.n
That we may emphasize and clearly ex-
| plain th5 relation the kidneys sustain to
| the general health, and how much is de-
pendent upon them, we propose, meta
phoricalIy speaking to take one from the
human body, place in the wash-bowl be-
| fore us, and examine it for the public BEN
| eft.
You will imagine that we have before US
Q body shaped like bean, smooth and
| glistening, about four inches in length, two
| in width, and one in thickness. 1t ordl-
| harily weighs in the adult male, about five
| ounces, but is somewhat lighter ii the fe-
male A small organ! you say But un-
derstand, the body of the average size man
| contains about ten quarts of blood, OF chtch
euerg drop passes through these filters or seacers,
as they may be called, many times day, as
| often as through the heart making COM
| plete 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 IT
| self, and fully of as much vital Importance; /;
removing impurities from sixty-tive gallons
| of blood each hour, or about forty-nine bar
rels each day, or 9, 125 hogsheads year J
| What a wonder that the kidneys can last
| any length of time under this prodigious
! We slice this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly de-
| scribe its interior.
| We find it to be of a reddish brown
color, soft and easily torn; filed with
hundreds of little tubes, short and thread
| like, starting from the arteries, ending in
| little tuft about midway from the out.
| side opening into a cavity of considerable
| size. which is called the pelvis, or, rough
| lv-speaking, sac which is 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 OUT
| side of the body. These little tubes are
| the filters, which do their work automat-
icaly, and right here is Wkere the disease Of the
kidney first begins
| Doing the vast amount OF work which
| they are obliged to, from the slightest ir-
| high living, from stimulants or thousand
and one other causes which occur every
| day, they become somewhat weakened in
| their nerve force.
What is the results Congestion or stop
page of the current Of blood in the small
blood vessels surrounding them, which be-
come blocked; these delicate membranes
are irritated; inflammation is set up, then
pus is formed, which collects in the pelvs
or sac; the tubes are at first partially, and
soon are totally, unable to do their work.
The pelvic sac goes on distending with this
corruption, pressing upon the blood ves-
sells. All this time, remember, the blood.
which is entering the kidneys to be fill
tered, is passing through his terrible, disgust
ing pus, for it can not take any other route
Stop and think of it for a moment Do
you realize the importance, nay 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 pare blood and escape diSedsef 1t
would be just as reasonable to expect, if
pest-house were set across Broadway and
countless thousands were compelled to go
through its pestilential doors an escape
from contagiOn and disease, as for one to
expect the blood to escape pollution when
constantly running through diseased
kidney.
Now, what is the resultl Why, that the
blood takes up and deposits this poison as
1T sweeps along into every organ, into ev-
cry inch of muscle, tissue flesh and bone,
from your head to your feet. And when
ever, from hereditary influence or other
wise, some part of the body is weaker than
another, countless train of diseases is eS-
tabllshed, such as consumption in weak
lungs, dyspepsia, where there is a delicate
stomach; nervousness, insanity, paralysis
or heart disease in those who have weak
nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects Of the poi
son. as it requires pure blood to keep it in right
action. 1t increases its stroke in number
and force to compensate for the natural
stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to crowd
the impure blood through this obstruction,
causing pain, palpitation, or an out-of-
breath feeling. Unnatural as this forced
labor is, the heart must soon falter, becom-
ing weaker and weaker until one 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 sound
ing Names treat them alone, and patients
die, TOR the arteries are carrying st0W death TO
brought from these suppuratng, Jus-laden
kidneys which here in our wash-bowl are
very putrefactiOn itself, and which should
have been cured first.
But this is not all the kidneys have to
do; for you must remember that each
adult takes about seven pounds of nour-
ishment every twenty -four hours to supply
the waste of the body which is constantly
going on, waste equal to the quantity
taken in This, too, the kidneys have to
separate from the blood, with all other de-
composing matter.
But you say: my kidneys are all right
have no pain in the back" Mistaken
man! People die of kidney disease Of SO
bad a character that the organs are rotten,
and yet they have asrer there had pain nor
an dchei
Why! Because the disease begins as we
have shown in the interior of the kidney,
where there are feao 7aerUes of feeling to convey
the sensation OF pain. Why this is SO we
may never know.
When you consider their great work, the
delicacy of their structure. the ease with
which they are deranged, can you wonder
at the ill-health of our men and womenf
Health and long life can not be expected
when SO vital an organ is impaired. No
wonder some writers say we are degener-
ating. Don't you see the great, the ex-
treme Importance of keeping this machin-
cry in working order! Could the finest
engine do even a fractional part of this
work, without attention from the engi-
neer! Don't you see how dangerous this
hidden disease is! 1t is lurking about us
constantly. without giving any indication
of its presence
The most skillful physicians can not de-
tect it at times for the Kidneys Themselves can
not be Examined hy any means which we
have at our ommand Even an analysis
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