The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-23

Some time ago an article was pub
ished in the Scientific American which al
he time attracted wide ettention. B.,
request of correspondent we repro
luce the leading points therein:
To understand how intimately related
ire the human kidneys to the physical
health, 1--WE propose, metaphorically
speaking, to take one from the human
body and place it in the wash-bowl be
fore US, and examine it."
You will imagine that we have before
ds body shaped like bean, smooth
and glistening, about four inches in
length, two in width and one in thick
ness. 1t weighs in the adult about five
ounces.
The body of the average size man con
tains about ten quarts of blood, every
drop OF which passes through these Ill
terers, or sewers, many times day (as
often as through the HEARTY, making q
complete revolution in three minutes.
The kidneys take away deadly impuri.
ties from 65 gallons of blood each hour,
or about 40 barrels each day, or 9,125
hogsheads year.
Let us slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise, and roughly describe its in
terror
We find 1t to be filled with hundreds
of little tubes, short and ead-like
starting from the arteries, ending in q
little tuft about midway from the out
side, opening into sac which holds the
water to further undergo publication be.
fn IL into tho and mt "a
the body. These little tubes are filters
which do their work automatically, and
right here the disease of the kidney first
begins.
From the slightest irregularity in our
habits, from cold, from high living, from
stimulants, or thousand and one other
daily causes, they lose their force.
What is the resultp Congestion OF
stoppage of the current of blood in the
small blood vessels surrounding them,
which become blocked; these delicate
membranes are irritated; Inflammation
is Sc: up, and 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 vessels All this time, remember,
The blood, which is entering the kidneys
to be filtered, is passing through this ter
rihly disgusting pus, for it cannot take
any other route.
1t would be Just as reasonable to ex-
pect to escape contagion if pest-house
Wy" sal across Broadway, and countless
thousands were compelled to go through
its presidential doors, as for one to ex-
peel The blood TO escape pollution when
constantly running through such dis
eas'd kidney.
New, what is the result? Why, that
the blood takes up and deposits this
po' son rs it sweeps along into every
orcan, into every inch of muscle, tissue,
flesh and bone, from your head to your
feet. And whenever, from hereditary
influence or otherwise, one part of the
body is weaker than another, countless
train of diseases is established, such as
consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
where there is delicate stomach, nerv-
BUSINESS, insanity, paralysis or heart dis
ease, in those who have weak nerves and
bad circulation.
But the medical profession, knowing
that they cannot cure diseases of the
kidneys, treat the manifold symptoms
caused by this primary or causative dis.
ease. AS fast rs they cure one symptom
another secondary one appears, and so
they go on, uselessly treating effects, the
cause being untouched.
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 a character that the organs are
rotten, and yet they never there had a
main nor an ache
"How can you know that you have
kidney disease?"
Only by noting the general effects
wrought by the kidney poisoned blood
in other parts of the body. Kidney dis
ease DISCUSSES itself under symptoms of
common head, lungs, skin, liver, and
stomach disorders.
If you notice that you are not in as
reliable health as formerly, In any re-
spect, then the chances are that, though
you may have no known chronic disease
your blood is full of uric kidney acid
Then comes in the ounce of prevention
Then you should use Warmers safe cure,
the only trustworthy specific for uric
acid or kidney disease, primary or Sec
ondary.
The most skillful physicians cannot
ueIeCI SUCH ulSedSc at Times, IOr the
kidneys themselves cannot be examined
by any means which we have at our
command. Even an analysis of the
water, chemically and microscopically,
reveals nothing definite in many cases,
even when the kidneys are fairly broken
down.
Then look out for them, as disease, no
matter where situated, to 93 per cent, as
shown by after death examinations, has
its origin in the breaking down of these
secreting tubes in the interior of the
kidney.
Warmers safe cure, as it becomes year
after year better known for its wonder
tul cures and its power over the kidneys,
has done and is doing more to increase
the average duration of life than all the
physicians known. 1t is true specific,
mild but certain, harmless but energetic
md agreeable to the taste.
Take 1t when sick, as a cure, and never
ct month go by without taking few
,ottles as preventive, that the Kidneys
nay be kept in proper order, the blood
pure, that health and long life may be
FOUR blessing.