The National tribune., 1886-03-04
THE ANCIENT GREEKS.
THEIR BELIEF CONCERNING THE SEAT
OF LOVE AND PASSION.
The Liver Regarded as the Favored Organ.
How Could it be So? Recent Facts
Partly Confirm this Belief.

The ancient Greeks thought the seat of love
and passion was in the liver, and i'm great meas
ure their opinion was not far astray The lover
whose liver is off or the husband who is bilious,
is not half man2his sluggish liver has filled
his blood with bile.
OF all the mean, contemplate counterfeits in
the world, red blood full of bile is the worst
the very worsti
We have about 10 quarts of this fluid in the
average size man. 1t is constantly UNDERGOING
change and is manufactured from the food we
daily consume by chemical process nature
has. She selects only that portion ph3ch, after
digestion, is found to be proper and takes it up
by a tube called the thoracic duet, emptying it
into the large vein near the left collar bone from
which it is at once carried to the kidnegs to be
strained of all the deletcrious matter which was
left by the bowels.
If the kidneys are in healthy condition, the
blood is in an absolutely pure state, contains all
the elements for repairing waste, returns at
once to the heart, and is thrown by that organ
nourishment and take up all the worn-out
material.
Contrary to general belief, the irer is not a
blood purifying organ; its purpose is only for
nutrition digestion, and it secretes daily many
pounds of bile, some being used in digestion
and putrition, and the balance as a cathartic
Now, after being housed up all Winter, with
pose of producing heat the liver increases one
third Of its supply Of bi!e and in the Spring,
nature not having use for the excess it
Is thrown into the blood, carried to the skin
(for it must be got rid of in some
way end causes tRat condition kno,cn as
"b;hoas," when the person is dull, lethar-
gic, restless, well to-day and half sick to-mor-
row; because the blood IS loaded with this sub
stance, which is just as foreign to it as so
much dirt Or corruption, and poisons the entire
body making y0ur btoed impure You know
there is something out of gear and the nat
UTal impulse is to take cathGrtics-but dras
tic cathartiCs do not remove the cause-they
make matters worse.
You ask, why? Because, my friend, the liver
is sluggish, lethargic organ that cannot be re-
lieved of any ailment except by medicine which
acts upon it in a quiet, steady manner. producing
permanent effects, and assisting. not goading, its
normal action. The kidRegs do the purifying.
Always remember that No other organ in the
body can take their place in this respect and
they attend to orer 5000 hogsIIeads of blood in a
year! Think of it and wonder that they are
able to do so large ar amount Of work !
healthy kidney to purify, and healthy
liver, emptying its poison into the b0mels and not
into the blood are the true and only givers of
pure blood.
The interior of the kidneys have fer nerves of
sensation, and stone can be and often is pres
ent without any indication until it reaches the
first outlet, which is supplied with nerves that
soon sound the alarm.
Do you see the moral of this? A healthy
liver and kidney is all there is to this question
of pure blood. Keep them in order. Don't
wait until you find they are diseased, for then
it may be too late. Do this and you are bound
to hare pare bood. Warmers safe cure has
direct action upon both the kidneys and liver,
and has become recognized agent for its
health preserving and Blood d-purifying proper
ties, and as such is used by many physicians.
A few bottles will$posihvely prevent disease,
and we are certain that disease of either organ
is prevented by its use, if taken in time.
The Spring approaches, and nature needs
help. Take it and save sickness and doctors
bills. Don't let any season go by without it's
use, or you may regret it forever