The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-12
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
REGARDING THE FUNCTIONS
OF AN IMPORTANT ORGAN,
OF WHICH THE PUBLIC KNOWS But
LITTLE, WORTHY CAREFUL con-
SHERATON
70 the Editor Of tie Scientific Ameri-

oibbhNiiONs
TO tie Editor ofthe Scientific Ameri-
can:
WI you permit as 10 make Snopn
10 the public tie facts are hare learn
ri during the past s gears, concern
ing disorders ofthe human, Kidneys
and tie organs ,ehich diseased Md
neys so easily break dorm ? You
are conducting a Scientific paper, and
are unprejudiced ercept IN .facor Of
TRUTH II is needless to san, no
medical Journal Of "Code" standing
'coctd admit these facts, TOR cery
obcious reasons.
II. H. WARNER & CO.,
Proprietors Of "Wayner's Safe
Cure"
That we may emphasize and clear
ly explain the relation the kidneys
sustain to the general health, and how
much is dependant upon them, we
propose, metaphorically speaking, to
take one from the human body, place
it in the wash-bowl before us, and ex-
anime it for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have be-
fore us body shaped like bean,
smooth and glistening, about four in
ches in length, two in width, and one
in thickness. 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 con.
tains about ten quarts Of blood Of
aohich ecery drop passes through
these filters or se,cers, as they may be
called, many times day, as often as
through the heart, making a complete
revolution in three minutes. From
the blood they seperate the waste
material, working away steadily, night
and day, sleeping or waking, tireless
as the heart itself, and fully of as much
vital Importance; removing impurities
from 65 gallons of blood each hour,
or about 40 barrels each day, or 9,125
hogsheads yeal What wonder
that the kidneys can last any length of
time under this prodigious strain, treat
ed and neglected as they are!
We slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise with our knife, and will
roughly describe its interior.
We find it to be of reddsh-brown
color, soft and easily torn; filed with
hundreds of little tubes, short and
thread-like, starting from the arteries,
ending in little t6ft 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 automatic
ally, and right here is aohere the dis
ease Of the kidney. first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work
which they are obliged to, from the
slightest irregularity in our habits,
from cold, from high living, from stim-
ulants 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
stoppage of the current of blood in the
small blood vessels surrounding them,
which become blocked F.; 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 distendlng with this
corruption, 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 pe1s, 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. if a
pest-house were set across Broadway
and countless thousands were compel
ed to 60 through its pestilential doors,
an escape from contagion and disease,
as for one to expect the blood to
escape pollution when constantly run
ming through diseased kidney.
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
another, a countless train of disease is
established, such as consumption, in
weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there is
delicate stomach nervousness, in
sanity, paralysis or heart disease in
those who have weak nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects
Of the poison, as IL 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 ut.of,
breath feeling. Unnatural as this
forced labor is, the heart must soon
falter, becoming 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 sounding names, treat them alone,
and patients die for Tie arteries are
carrying slop death to tie affected
part, constantly adding fuel brought
from these suppurating, pus-laden kid
neys 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 nourishmenI every twenty four
hours to supply the waste of the Dody |