The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-10-30
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH


Organ, of Which the Public Knows But
Little-Worthy Careful Consideration.
To the Editor of the Scientific american;
wa you permit us to make kaown to the pub
lie the facts zoe haze learned during the past 8
years, concerning disorders Of the human Kid
neys and the organs which diseased Kidneys so
easily break doWn' You are conducting Sci
entiac paper, and are unprcudiced e1cept in
favor of TRUTH. II Is needless to say, no med
zeal Journal Of "Code" standing could admit
these facts, for gerry Obvious reasons.
H. IT. WARNER g CO.,
Proprietors Of "Wa,ners Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly ex-
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to
pendent upon them, we propose, meta
phorically 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
body shaped like 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 Ave
ounces, but is somewhat lighter in the fe-
male. small organa you say. But I'M
derstand, the body of the average size man
contains about ten quarts of blood, of which
eUerp drop passes through these filters or sewers,
rs 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-five gallons
Of blood each hour, or about forty-nine bar
rels each day, or 9, 125 hogsheads year
What wonder that the kidneys can last
any length of time under this prodigious
strain, treated and neglected as they area
We slice this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly de-
scribe its 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 out
side opening into cavity of considerable
size. which is called the pelvis, or, rough
ly-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 out
side Of the body. These little tubes are
the filters, which do their work automat-
ically, 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 ir-
regularity in our habits, from cold, from
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 RESULT 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 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
corruption, pressing upon the blood YES
sells All this time, remember, the blood.
which is entering the kidneys to be fl
tered, is passing through this 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 ordera
| Can you expect when they are diseased or
obstructed, no matter how little, that you
can have pure blood and escape diSeassF 1t
would be just as reasonable to expect, IL o
pest-house were set across Broadway and
countless thousands were compelled to 60
through its pestilential doors, an escape
from contagion and disease, as for one to
expect the blood to es ape pollution when
constantly running through a diseased
kidney.
Now, what is the RESULT 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 tho body is weaker than
another, countless train Of diseases is es-
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 poi.
son, as II 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 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 il
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, for the arteries are carrying Sloo death L
the affected part constantly adding fuel
brought from these suppurating, pus-lader
very putrefaction itself, and which shoulG
have been cured first.
But this is not all the kidneys have tt
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 t.
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
mani People die of kidney disease of 81
bad q character that the organs are rotten
and yet they have nerer there had a pain moi
Why's Because the disease begins, as vi
have shown, in the interior of the kidney
where there are te'O nerves Of feeling to couve.
When you consider their great work, tn
delicacy of their structure, the ease witt
which they are deranged, can you wonde
at the ill-health of our men and women
Health and long life can not be expected
when so vital an organ is impaired. N
wonder some writer's say we are degener
ating Don't you see the great, the ex
cry in working orderl Could the fires
engine do even a fractional part of thi
work, without attention from the eng
neerl Don't you see how dangerous thi
hidden disease isl It is lurking about u
constantly, without giving any indication
of its presence.
The most skillful physicians can not de
tect it at times for The kidneys Themselves ca
not be examined by any means which W
have at our command. Even an analyst
of the water, chemically and microscopic
ally, reveals nothing definite in man,
cases, even when the kidneys are fairl,
broken down.
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