The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-16
Newspaper Criticism,


II Il a privilege every newspaper 70.
serves to itself TO criticise, adversely IL
needs be, for the public's benefit, anything
in which tho public Is deeply interested.
tits the custom Of II. H Warner & Co.
proprietors OF the renowned Kidney and
Liver Cure, better known as "Warner's
Safe Cure, " TO flood the country, and espe-
cially the post Offices, with medical pam.
phlets The writer has taken the liberty TO
examine one OF sthese marvellous little
books, and finds food for criticism, but he
fore indulging in IL, will give our readers
some quotations thercfrom, from the high.
est medical authorities, which we believe
worthy Of consideration. Under tho head
OF" Distinctive Symptoms Apparent"
we find:
First-Moro adults are carried of in this
country by chronic kidney disease than by
any other one ma,ady except consumption
Thompson.
Second-Deaths from such diseases are
increasing at the ratio of 80 per cent. a
decade. Edwards.
Third-Brights 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
vicinity 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
as stated above. -Thompson.
Fifth Only when the disease has reached
its final and fatal stages may the usual
symptoms of albumen and tube casts APP
pear in the water, and wi great pain rack
the diseased organs. Thompson.
VII ia,
has three stages of development, is a uni
versal disease in England and America.
Roberts and Edwards.
Thompson is authority for saying that
more adults arc carried off in this country
by kidney disease than any other malad y
except consumption. Under Warmers
safe Cure" article on Consumption, we
find paragraph claiming TO be quotation
from publication issued by Brompton Hos
pital for Consumptives, London, England,
which states that 50 per cent Of the patients
Of that institution have unsupported kidney
disorder. DR.. Herman Brehmer, an emf
nent German authority also says that Con-
sumption is always due to def cient nutri.
ton of the lungs, because of bad blood.
Medical science Can no longer dispute the
fact that the kidneys arc the principal blood
purifying organs of the human system, and
if they are diseased and thus fail to expcI
the uric acid poison or the waste matter of
the blood, as the blood passes through these
two great organs, the Safe Cure" claim is
correct, and tho reasoning OF its proprietor
holds good.
There is no doubt but that in too many in
stances the medical fraternity doctor for
symptoms, instead of striking at the root
OF the disease, and that under this form Of
treatment many patients die.
We cannot, however, see the necessity of
continually flooding the country with these
advertising medical books, when their story
once well told is enough for the time being.
People rs rule, now a-days, go to their
newspaper for information. and we believe
such truths as we have instanced could be
proclaimed therein more advantageously TO
the public and much more benefcially TO the
proprletors.