Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10
Newspaper Criticism.

II 1s privilege every newspaper reserves
70 itself TO crltlcise, adversely il needs be,
for the public's benefit, any thing in which
the public is deeply interested.
1t is the custom Of 81. II. Warner & Co.,
proprietors OF the renowned Kidney and
Liver Cure, better known Us "Warner's Safe
Cure,"to food the country, and especially
the post-ofhces, with medical pamphlets.
The writer has taken the liberty to examine
one OF these marvellous little books, and
finds food for criticism, but before indulg-
ing IN it, will give our readers some quota
tons therefrom, from tho highest medical
authorities, which we believe worthy Of con-
sideration. Under the head Of mo Dis
tinctive Symptoms Apparent" we find:
First-More adults are carried off in this
country by chronic kidney disease than by
any other one malady except consumption.
Thompson.
Second-Death from such diseases are in
creasing at the rate Of $50 per cent.
Observation-Disclosures.
Third-Brlghts Disease has no symptoms
of its own, and may long exist without the
knowledge OF the patient or practitioner, as
no pain will be felt in the kidneys or their
vlcinity.-Roberts.
Fourth-In the fatal cases-and most
cases have hitherto been fatal-the symp-
toms of diseased kidneys will first appear
in extremely different organs of the body 40
stated above.-Thompson.
Fifth-Only when the disease has reached
its final and fatal stages may the usual
symptoms of albumen and tube casts ap-
pear in the water, and will great pain rack
the diseased rgans.-Thompson.
Sixth-Bright's Disease, which usually has
three stages of development, is universal
disease in England and Amerlca.-Roberts
and Edwards
Thompson is authority for saying that
more adults are carried off IN this country
by kidney disease than any other malady
| except consumption. Under Warmers
Safe Cure" article on Consumption we
find paragraph claiming to be quotation
| from publication issued by Brompton
Hospital for Consumptives, London, En-
| gland, which states that SO per cent. of the
| patients of that institution have unsuspect
ed kidney disorder. d.. Herman Brehmer
an eminent German authority, also says
that Consumption is always due to deficient
nutrition of the lungs, because of bad blood
Medical science can no longer dispute the
fact that the kidneys are the principal BLOOD
purifying organs of the human system, ant
if they are diseased and thus fail to expe
the uric acid poison or the waste matter O
the blood, as the blood passes through thes'
two great organs, the ''Safe Cure' claim i
correct, and the reasoning of its proprieto
holds good.
There is no doubt but that in too many in
stances the medical fraternity doctor TO
symptoms, instead of STRIKING at the root o
the disease, and that under this form O
treatment many patients die.
4 We can not, however, see the necessity O
! continually flooding the country with thes
advertising medical books, when their stor
!, once we'll told is enough for the time being
People as rule, nowadays, 20 to thei
newspaper for information, and we beiev
such truths as we have instanced could b
proclaimed therein more advantageously t
the public and much more beneicially to tn
proprletors.-Er.