Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25

are conducting q Scientific paper, md are
appropriated Except IN faror Of Truth. 1t
is needless to sag, no medical Journal Of
''Code'' standing qUouLd admit these facts,
for Gerry curious reasons.
Il. II. WARNER &c CO.,
Pr0prietors Of "War7le1'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, meta
phorically speaking, to take one from the
human body, place in the wash-bowl be-
fore Us, and examine it for the public
| benefit.
You will imagine that we have before
US a body shaped like bean, smooth and
glistening, about four inches in length,
two in width and one in thickness. 1t or
dinarily weighs in the adult male, about
five ounces, but is somewhat lighter in
the female. 4 small organ? you say.
But understand the body of the average
size man contains ten quarts of blood, of
luhich every drop passes through these filters
or seaCerS, as they may be called nlGTy
times @ day as often as through the heart,
! making a complete revolution IL three min
attes. From the blood they separate the
waste material, working away steadily
night and day, sleeping or waking, tire
less as the heart itself, and fully of as
much vital importance; removing impuri-
! ties from sixty-five- gallons Of blood each
! hour, or about forty-nine barrels of blood
each day, or 1926 hogshead year! What
a wonder that the kidneys can last any
length of time under this prodigious
strain, treated ana neglected 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; 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
Iy speaking, sac, which is for the pur
pose 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 lit
tie tubes are the filters which do their
work automatically, and right here is aChere
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 a
thousand AID one other causes which oc-
cur 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; these delicate
membranes are irritated; inflammation is
set up, then pus is formed, which col
lects in the pelvis or sac; the tabes are
at first partially, and soon are totally I'M
able to do their work. The pelvic sac
goes on distending with this corruption,
pressing upon the blood vessels. ALI this
time, remember, the blood, which is en-
tering the kidneys to be filtered, is pass
ing through this terrible disgusting pas, for
1t 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 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 result? Why, that the
blood takes up and deposits that 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 weak
er than another, countless train of dis
| eases is established, such as consumption
IN weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there is
delicate stomach; nervousness, insani-
| tY, paralysis or heart disease in those who
! have weak nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects Of the
| poison, GS it requires pare blood to keep 1t
az right action. It increases its stroke in
number and force to compensate for the
natural stimulus wanting, in its endeavOr
30 crowd the impure blood through this
| obstruction, causing pain, pal pitation, Or
an out-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
dlgnfled, call these diseases by high
sounding names, treat them alone, and
sto1C death TO the affected part, constantly
| adding fuel brought from their suppuFat-
ing, pus-laden kidneys which here in our
wash-bowl are very putrefaction itself,
and which should have been cured at
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 twentyfour hours to sup
ply the waste Of the body which is con-
stantly going on, waste equal to the
quantity taken. This, too, the kidneys
have to separate from the blood with all
other decompos1ng matter.
But you say, "My kidneys are all right.
I have no pain in the back" Mistaken
man! People die of kidney disease OF so
bad character that the organs are rotten
and yet they have Meier there had q pain
nor an ache
Why? Because the disease begins, as
we have shown, in the interior of the kid
ney, where there are te'c nerves Of feeling
to convey the sensation Of pain. Why