The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-11
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.
How Escape SMALLPOX With a
Pest House In Broadway?

Some time ago an article was
published in the Scientific Ameri-
can which at the time attracted
wide attention. By request of q
correspondent we produce the lead
ing points therein:
To understand how intimately
related are the human kidneys to
the physical health, " we propose,
mataphorically, speaking to take
one from the human body and place
it in the wash-bowl before us, and
examine it."
You will imagine that we have
before us body shaped like a bean,
smooth and glistening, about four
inches in length, two in width and
one in thickness. 1t weighs in the
adult about five ounces.
The body of the average size man
contains about ten quarts of blood,
every drop of which passes through
these filters or sewers, many times
a day, Gas often as through the
heart,) making complete revolu-
ton in three minutes. The kid.
neys take away deadly impurities
from 65 gallons of blood each hour,
or about 40 barrels cash day, or
9,l25 hogsheads year.
Let US slice this delicate organ
open lengthwise. and roughly des-
cribe its interior.
We find it to be filled with hun
dreds of little tubes, short and
thread-like, starting from the ar
teries, ending in a little tuft about
midway from the outside, opening
into sac which holds the water to
further undergo publication before
it passes into the ureters, and out
of the body. These little tubes are
filters which do their work auto
matically, and right here the dis
ease of the kidney first begins. =
From the slightest irregularity
in our habits, from cold, from high
living, from stimulants or a thou
sand and one other daily causes,
they lose thelr force. s...r
What is the result? Congestion
or stoppage of the current of blood
in the small blood vessels surround
ing them, which become blocked !;
these delicate membranes are irri-
tated; inflammation is set up, then
pus is formed, which collects in the
sac; the tubes are at first partially,
and soon totally unable to do their
work. The sac goes on distending
with this corruption, pressing upon
the blood vess sls. All this time,
remember. the blood, which is en-
tering the kidneys to be filtered, is
passing through this terribly dis
gushing pus, for it cannot take any
other route.
1t would be just as reasonable to
expect to escape contagion if a
pest house were set across Broad
way and countless thousands were
compelled to 60 through it's pesti-
lential doors, as for one to expect
the blood to escape pollution when
constantly running through such
a diseased kidney.
Now, what is the result2 Why,
that the blood takes up and de-
posits 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 in.
fuence or otherwise, one part Of
the body is weaker than another, q
countless train of diseases is estab-
lished, such as consumption in
weak lungs, dyspepsia, where
there is a delicate stomach, ner.
vousness, insanity, paralysis o,
heart disease, in those who have
weak nerves and bad circulation
But the medical profession, know.
ing that they cannot cure diseases
of the kidneys, treat the manifold
symptoms caused by this primary
or causative disease. AS fast as
they cure one symptom, another
secondary one appears, and so they
60 on, uselessly treating effects, the
cause being untouched.
But you say my kidneys are
all right. l have no pain in the
back" Mistaken man! People
} die of kidney disease, of 30 bad q