Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-24

10 the E0ItOr OF the ScIent1Hc AnerIcaH:
WHyou permit us to make known to the
public the facts we have learned during the
past years, concerning disorders of the
human Kidneys and the organs which dis
eased Kidneys SO easily break down? You
are conducting q Scientific paper and are
unpreiudiced except in favor of Truth. 1T
is needless to say, no medical Journal OF
"Code" standing would admit these facts,
for very obvious reasons.
H.H. WARNER 6 CO.,
Proprietors of "Warner's Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly ex-
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to
the general health, and how much is de-
pendent upon them we propose, metaphor
ically speaking, to take one from the hui
man body, place it in the wash-bowl be-
fore us, and examine 10 for the public
benefit.
You will imagine that we have before us
a body shaped like a bean, smooth and
glistening, about four inches in length, two
in width, and one in thickness. 1t ordi-
narily weighs in the adult male about five
ounces, but is somewhat lighter in the fe-
male. A small organ? you say. But I'M
derstand, the body of the average size man
contains about ten quarts of blood, OF
which every drop passes through these fl
terS or sewers, as they may be called, many
times a day, as often as through the heart,
making q complete revolution in
three minutes. From the blood they
separate the waste material, work
ing away steadily night and day,
sleeping or waking, tireleEs as the
heart itself, and fully OF as much vital
Importance; removing impurities from
sixty.fve gallons of blood each hour, or
about forty mine barrels each day, or
9,125 hogshead year! What a wonder
that the kidneys can last any length OF
time under this prodigious strain, treated
and neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly de.
scribe it's interior.
We find it to be OF a reddish brown color,
soft and easily torn; filled with hundreds of
little tubes, short and thread-like, starting
from the arteries, ending in q little tuft
about midway from the outside opening
into a cavity OF considerable size, which is
called the pelvis or, roughly speaking, a
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 outside OF the body.
These little tubes are the filters which do
their work automatically. and right here is
where the disease Of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work which
they are obliged to, from the slightest irreg-
ularity in our habits, from cold, from high
living. from stimulants or a thousand and
one other causes which occur every day,
they become somewhat weakened in their
nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or stop
page of the current of blood in the small
vessels surrounding them, which become
blocked; these delicate membranes are irri-
tated; Inflammation is set up, then pus is
formed which collects in the pelvis 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 cor
ruption, 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 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 pure blood and escape disease?
1t would be just as reasonable to expect, il
q pest-house were set across Broadway and
countless thousands were compelled to go
through it's pestilential doors, an escape
from contagion and disease, as for one to
expect the blood to escape pollution when
constantly 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, flesh and bone, from
your head to your feet. And whenever,
from hereditary influence Or otherwise,
some part OF the body is weaker than an
other, countless train of diseases is e.
tablished, such as consumption in weak
lungs, dyspepsia, where there is delicate
stomach; nervousness, insanity, paralysis
or heart disease in those who have weak
nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects of
the poison, as it requires pure blood to
keep it in right action. 1t increases it's
stroke in number and force to compensate
for the natural stimulus wanting, in its en-
deavor 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, become weaker and weaker until one
day it Suddenly stops, and death from ap-
parent "heart disease is the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned and
dignifed, call these diseases by high sound
ing names, treat them alone, and patients
die, for the arteries are carrying slow death
to the affected part, constantly adding
fuel brought from these suppurating, pus-
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 haveto do;
1Or you Inu6C r6men Der Una6 6aCn aOulU
takes about seven pounds of nourishment
every twenty-four hours to supply the
waste Of the body which is constantly 60
ing on, waste equal to the quantity
taken. This, too, the kidneys have to
separate from the blood with all the other
decomposing 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 O. character that the organs are rotten,
and yet they have never there had a pain
nor an ache!
Why? Because the disease begins, as we
have shown. in the interior of the kidney,
where there are few nerves of feeling to con.
vey 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 dsranged, can you wonder
at the ill-health Of our men and women?
Health and long life cannot be expected
when SO vital an organ is impaired. No
wonder some writer's say we are degenerate
ing. Don't you see the great, the extreme
Importance Of keeping this machinery in
working order? Could the Gnest engine do
even fractional part OF this work, without