The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-10

are conducting scientific paper. and are I'M
prejudiced except in favor of truth. 1t is
needless to say no medical journal of ''code''
standing would admit these facts, fer very
obvious reasons.
II. III. WARNER & Co.,
Proprietors of Warmers Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly ex-
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to the
general health, and how much is dependent
upon them, we propose. metaphorically
speaking to take one from the human body,
place in the wash-bowl before us, and ex-
anime it for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have before US "a
body shaped like bean, smooth and glist-
ening, about four inches 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
ten quarts of blood, of which every drop
passes through these filters or sewers, as they
may be calico, many times day, as often as
through the heart, making complete revo-
luton in three minutes. From the blood
they separate the waste material, working
waking, tireless as the heart itself, and fully
OF as mnch vital importance; removing i'm
purities from sixty-tive gallons of blood each
hour or about forty-nine barrels each day, or
9, lbs hOgsheads year. What a wonder that
the kidneys can last any length of time I'M
der this prodigious strain, treated and neg
lected as they are.
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 outside opening
into cavity of considerable size, which is
called the pelvis or, roughly speaking, sac,
which is for the purpose of holding the
water to further undergo publication before
1t 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 irregularity
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 vessels. All this
time, remember, the blood, which is enter
ing the kidneys to be filtered, is passing
through this terrible, disgusting pus, for it
can not 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
INSTRUCTED, 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 compelled to go
through its residential doors, an escape
from contagion and disease, as for one to ex-
pect the blood to escape pollution when con-
stantly running 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,
countless train of diseases is established,
such as consumption, in weak lungs; dyspep-
STA, where there is delicate stomach; nerv
business. 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 its stroke in
number and force to compensate for the nat
ural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to
crowd the impure blood through this ob-
struction, causing pain, palpitation, or an
out-of-breath feeling. Unnatural as this
forced labor is the heart must soon falter,
ino kar
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, 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 have to do;
for you must remember that each ADULT takes
about seven pounds of nourishment every
twenty-four hours to supply the waste of the
body which is constantly going Cd, waste
equal to the quantity taken. This, TOO, the
kidneys have to separate from the blood
with all other decompOsing matter.
But you say, my kidneys are all right.
/ have no pain in the back" Mistaken
mani People die of kidney disease of so bad
CDdTdCIeT Ludb Tie IObtCut duu
yet they have never there had 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 deranged, can you wonder at
the ill health of our men and woment
Health and long life can not be expected
when so vital an organ is impaired. No
wonder some writers say we are degenerat-
ing. Don't you see the great, the extreme
importance of keeping this machinery in
working order? Could the finest engine do
even fractional part of this work without
attention from the engineer? 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 sklllful physicians can not de-
tect il at times, for the kidneys themselves
! can not be examined b. any means which
we have al 6Tir conafds EYea an analy-
sis of the water, chemically aiia microsco.
pically, reveals nothing definite in many
| cases, even when the kidneys are fairiy
| broken down.
Then look out for them, as disease, no mat
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