River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-17
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS.
The Fearful and woHderfuI' Mechanism
OF the Human system Graphically Por-
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of the Human System Graphically Por-
trayed.
FIN the editorial columns Of the New
York Analyst II. Lassing, M. d., editor,
writes the following beautiful description
of the laboratories of the human system.
We think we have never read a finer OF
more trustworthy one
MAN is the greatest of all chemical
laboratories. Magnify the smallest cell
of the body and what factory is
spread before the eyes, countless cham
bers in which are globes of air, masses
of solid matter. globules of dying IL
quid; flash comes and the whole is
consumed and needful heat is carried
into every part of the system. Elec-
trical forces also generate and are
conveyed to the brain, the muscles and
the various nerve centers.
In another set of million chambers
we see various gasses and vapors. By
chemical action these are changed and
purified in the lungs and the skin The
blood we often say is a great living
river. In its current are masses which
the air in the lungs did not affect:
blocks of chalk; slabs of tartar; pieces
of bone-ash, strings of slbumen; drops
of molasses, and lines of alcohol. How
are these waste masses disposed of?
Begin where you will in this great
stream you must come to the purifying
places of tie system. Here is all ac-
tivity and an invisible force. reaches
out into the stream, seiZes and car
ries this mass of waste into vast trench.
es, thence into smaller reservoir, and
finally into larger reservoir, which
readily discharges its contents.
This separation of lime, uric acid and
other waste material from the blood
without robbing it of particle of the
life fluid, passes human comprehen-
sion. In health. this blood purifying
process, is carried on without our
knowledge The organs in which it is
done are faithful servants whose work
is silent as long as health remains.
people strangely wait until pain
strikes nerve before they will realize
that they have any trouble. They do
not know that pain concerns chiefly the
exterior not the interior of the body.
A certain set of nerves connect these
blood-purifying organs with the brain.
They may not gnaw and bite as does
the tooth-ache or scratch, but they
regularly, silently report. When these
organs are failing these nerves indicate
it by drawing the blood from the face
and cheek, leaving the lip and eye
slanched, by sending uric acid poison
into the smallest veins. the skin then
becoming gray, yellow or brown. They
also prevent the publication of tho
blood in the lungs and cause
pulmonary difficulties, WEAKNESS
and pain. Who enjoys perfect
health, especially in this land where we
burn our candle in one massP The
athlete breaks down in the race; the
editor falls at his desk; the merchant
succombs in his counting-room. These
events should not have been unexpect-
ed for nature long ago hung out her
''lanterns of alarm" When the ''acci-
dent finally comes, its fatal effect is
seen ia a hundred forms; either as con-
gestion, chronic weakness, as wrong
action, as variable appetite, as head
troubles, as palpitation and Irregular
tiles of the heart, as premature decay,
as dryness and harshness of the skin
causing the hair to drop out or turn
gray, as apopleXy, as paralysis, as gen.
eral debility, blood poisoning, etc.
''Put no faith in the wiseacre who
says there is no danger as long as there
. Dttf faff in n nh
clan, whoever he may be, who says it
is a mere cold or 3 slight indisposition.
He knows little, If any, more than you
do about it. He can neither see nor
examine these organs and depends en-
tirely upon experimental tests, that
you can make as well as he.
eff the output is discolored or
muddy, If it contains albumen, lymph,
crystals, sweet or morbid matter, is
red with escaped blood, or roily with
gravel, mucus and frorh, something is
wrong and disease and death are not
far away.
"These organs which we have de-
scribed thus atlengtb, because they are
really the most important ones in the
human system, the ones in which large
majority of human ailments originate
and are sustained, are the kidneys.
They have not been much discussed in
public because it is conceded that the
profession has little known power over
them What is wanted for such organs
is a simple medicine, which can do no
harm to the most delicate but must be
of the greatest benefit to the afflicted.
Such a remedy, tried and proved by
many thousands all over the
world is Warmers safe cure. With
those in whom disease is deep
seated it is the only specific. For
those in whom the seeds are sown and
the beginning of illness started it is an
unfailing reliance. 1t may be recon-
mended to the well to prevent sick
ness and the sick to prevent death.
With its aid the great tilterin5 en-
glnes of the system keep on in their
Silent work without interruption; with
out it they get out of gear and then
disease and death open the dool
and cross the threshold"
Such writing ought not only to
please but to carry conviction that
what Editor Lassing Nj. D.,-so high
an authority-says is true, and that
his counsel is worthy the attention and
heed of all prudent, right-minded
people.