The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-15

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"plains the frequent coincidence of lung
affections with abrupt changes of tenn
"perature. "-Scientifc American.
Another prominent (American) author
ity ascribes pneumonia to an excess of
ozone, ozone being produced by passage
of electricity in the air.
A distinguished American physician
tells the New York Tribune that the prev
alence of pneumonia indicates the uni
versatility of a uric-acid condition of the
blood--sudden chills always being char
acteristic effects of too much acid, of one
sort and another.
The disease, as M. Jaccoud observes, is
undoubtedly in the blood, but if in the
form of permanent microbes or germs,
these germs must be developed by the
uric-acid condition of the blood. Indeed,
they cannot presumably exist in alkaline
blood. Uric-acid is the name for the
waste matter of the system, which the
kidneys, through evident though unsus-
pected Impairment, have not been able to
filter from the blood-the filter being foul
and stopped up in many of its little hair
like tubes.
The Tribune's authority says that pneu-
monia is secondary disorder, the ex-
posure and cold being simply the agents
which develop the disease, already dor
mant in the system, because the kidneys
have been but partially doing their duty.
In short, pneumonia is but an early indi-
cation of Bright's diseased condition.
This impaired action may exist for years
without the patient suspecting it, because
no pain will be felt in the kidneys or
their vicinity, and often it can be detected
only by chemical and microscopical ex-
aminations. Nearly $50 of the 74O
deaths in New York city the first week in
recent March, and in six weeks ISL
deaths, were causedby pneumonia alone.
If one has occasional chills and fever,
tendency to colds in the throat and
lungs, rheumatic and neuralgia pains, ex-
IRENE tired feelings, short breath and
pleuritic stitches in the side, loss of APP
petite, backache, nervous unrest-scald-
ing sensations or scant and discolored
fluids, heart futter1ngs, sour stomach,
distressed look, puffy eye sacs, hot and
dry skin, loss of strength and virility,
pneumonia is likely to strike him down
any day, and his recovery will be doubt
full
These indications may not appear to-
gether. They may come. disappear and
reappear for years, the person not real
izing that they are natures warnings of
coming calamity.
The disease is very quick-acting and if
the accompanying kidney disorder is very
far advanced, recovery is impossible, for
the kidneys give out entirely, and the
patient is literally sufocated by water.
The only safeguard against pneumonia
is to maintain vigorour condition of
the system and thus prevent attacks, by
using whatever will radically and ef-
fectually restore full vitality to the kid
neys, and for this there is nothing equal
to Warmers safe cure. If the kidneys are
not sound pneumonia cannot be pre-
vented. This remedy is known to mil
lions, used, probably by hundreds of
thousands all over the globe, and COM
mended as a standard specific wherever
known and used. 1t does not pretend to
cure an attack of pneumonia, but it does
remove the cause of and prevent that
disease if taken in time. .
When physician says his patient has
either Bright's disease or pneumonia, he
confesses his inability to cure, and in a
measure he considers his responsibility
ended. In many instances, indeed, per-
sons are reported as dying ofpneumonia,
heart disease, apoplexy and commissions,
when the real cause of death, and so
known by the physicians, is this kidney
consumption. Thousands Of people have
it without knowing it, and perish oft
because their physicians will not tell
them the facts.
The same destiny awaits every one
who will not exercise his judgment in
such a matter and be true to himself, his
family, and to society.