The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-04-17
Newspaper Criticism.

IL is a privilege every newspaper
reserves to itself TO criticlse, adversely
ifneeds be, for the public's benefit,
anything in which the public is deeply
interested.
II is the custom of III. III. Warner
& Co, proprietors of the renowned
Kidney and Liver Cure, better known
as "Warner's Safe Cure" to flood the
country, and especially the post-offices,
withtmedical pamphlets. The writer
has taken the liberty to examine on,
of these marvellous little books, and
finds food for criticism, but before
indulging 10 it, will give OUT readers
some quotations therefrom, from the
higaesI medical authorities, which we
believe worthy of consideration.
Under the heal Of "No Distinctive
Symptoms Apparent" We fnd:
First--More adults are carried off
10 this country by chronic kidn y
disease than by any other one malady
except consumption. on.-Thompson.
Sec Jnd-Deatbs from such diseases
ale increasing at the rate of $50 per
cent a decade. Edwards.
third BrigLt's Disea e has no symtom
Of its own, and may long exist with
out the knowledge of the patient or
practitioner, as no pain will bs felt in
the kidness or their v.ciniy. -Robts.
FuurtL-ln the fatal cases-and
most cases have hitherto been fatal
the symptoms Of diseased kidneys will
first appear in extremely different
"rgans Of the body as stated above
Thompson.
Fifth-0nly when the disease has
reached its final and fatal stages may
the usual symptoms of albumen and
tube casts appear in the water, and
will great pam rack the diseased Or
gans.-ThompsOn.
Sixth-Bright's Disease. which
usually has three stages Of develop
ment, is q universal disease in Eng
land and AmerIca.-R Iberts and
Edwards.
Thompson is authority for saying
that more adults are carried Uti in this
country by kidney disease than any
other malady except consumption.
Under Warmers "Safe Cure" article
on Consumption, We find a paragraph
claiming 10 be a quotation from q
publication issued Dy Brompton Hos
p tai for Consumptives, London,
England. which states that 52 per
cent, Ui the patients Of that institution
have unsusptctel kidney disorder.
DR.. Herman BIenmer, an eminent
German authority also says that Con-
sumption is always due to deficient
nutrition Of the lungs, because oil bad
blood.
Medical science can no longer dis"
pute the tact that the kidneys are the
principal blood purifying organs of
the human system, and II they are dis
essed and thus TAIL to expel the uric
acid poison or the waste matteI of the
blood as the blood passes through
these two great organs, the Safe cure
claim is correct, and the leasoning OF
its proprietor holds good.
There Is no doubt Uut that in Too
many instances the medical fraternity
doctor for symptoms, instead Of s'rik.
ing at root Of the disease, and that
under this form Of treatment many
patients die.
We cannot, however, see the neS
ccsity Of continually flooding the
country with these advertising medi.
cal books, when their story once well
told is enough for the time being.
People as rule, now,a.d days go to
their newspaper for information. and
we believe such truths rs We have
ioslanced could be pro, lai n, d therein
more advautageOusly to the public
and much more beneGciaIly to the
proprietorS,