The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-04
DEADLY DRINKING WATER.
A Universal Epidemic Caused.
How 1t May BE Avoided.


upon rivers or streams for their
drinking water, the fever RACES
violently. Throughout the entire
Southwest and Northwest the wells
are low the water is of very poor
quality; and here also the fever
RACES.
The authorities Of Albany, New
York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Philadelphia and other
large cities are warning the people
not to drink the water without first
boiling it to kill the malarial and
typhoid germs.
Surely a winter of malaria and
typhoid will ill prepare our people
to encounter a summer of cholera
Cholera and typhoid and malar-
ial fevers can all be prevented by
simple rules of life, and these rules
Nduld he studied by everyone
IL a diseases are sym ptoms of b
low slate of the system, produced
by the vi'iated blood.
This blood is made impure be-
cause of the impurities in the
drinking water, these impurities
being deadly poisons which para
lyze the nerve action of the kid
neys and liver. When these blood
purifying organs are paralyzed,
then the natural waste of the body
the uric acid-accumulates in
the blood, and fever cannot be pre-
vented until the excess of uric acid
has been removed.
The greatest necessity of every
day life is pure water, Two-thirds
of ones body is made up of water.
If the water we drink is impure,
then how can we hope to escape
diseased conditions2
1t is impossible. The stomach,
liver and kidneys cannot purify
polluted water.
Some cautious people resort to
the filter for purifying their water,
but even the filter does not remove
this poison, for water of the most
deadly character may pass through
this filter and become clear, and
yet the poison, disguised, is there.
They who use filters know that
they must be renewed at regular
periods, for even though they do
not take out all the impurity, they
soon become foul.
Now in like manner the human
kidneys act as filter for the blood,
and if they are filled up with i'm
purities and become foul like the
filter, all the blood in the system
coursing through becomes bad, for
it is now a conceded fact that the
kidneys are the chiefmeans where
by the blood is purified. These or
gans are filled with thousands of
hair-like tubes, which drain the
impurities from the blood, as the
sewer pipes drain impurities from
our houses.
If a sewer pipe breaks under the
house, the sewerage escapes into
the earth and fills the house with
poisonous gas; SO if any of the
thousand and one little hair-like
sewer tubes the kidneys break
down, the en- 70 body is affected by
this awful POI ,on.
It is a scientific fact that the
kidneys have few nerves of sensa-
ton; and, consequently, disease
may exist in these organs for a
long time and not be suspected by
the individual. 1t is impossible to
filter or take the death out of the
blood when the least arrangement
exists in these organs, and if the
blood is not filtered then the uric
acid or kidney poison, removable
only by Warmers safe cure, accum-
ulates in the system and attacks
any organ, producing nine out of
ter ailments, just as sewer gas and
bad drainage produce so many ia
tai disorders.
Kidney disease may be known
to exist if there is any marked de-
parture from ordinary health with
out apparent known cause, and it
should be understood by all that
the greatest peril exists and is in
tensified if there is the least neg
lect to treat it promptly with that
great specific, Warmers safe cure, a