Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-09
Newspaper Criticism.

II is n privilege every newspaper re-
serves 20 itself TO cricise, adversely II needs
be, for tho public,s benefit, anything IL
which the public is deeply interested.
IL is the custom of II. III. Warner a. Co.,
prop rietors Of the renowned Kidney and
Liver Cure, better known as "Warner's
Safe Curc,n 20 flood the country, and es'
pecially the post offices, with medical pam
phlets. The writer has taken the liberty TO
examine one of these marvellous little books
and finds food for criticism, but before in
dulging in IL, will give our. readers some
quotations therefrom, from the highest
medical authorities, which we believe
worthy OF consideration. Under the head
of mo Distinctive 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-Deaths from such diseases are
increasing mt the rate of $50 per cent
decade. Edwards
Th,rd.-Brights disease has no symp-
tom OF its own, and may long exist with
out the knowledge Of the patient or practi-
tioner, as no pain will be felt in the kidneys
)r their vicinity.
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.
Fffth-Only when the disease has reach
ed its final and fatal stages may the usual
symptoms Of alEumen and tube casts APP
pear in the water, and will great pain rack
the diseased organs.-Thompson.
Sixth -Brigh's Disease, which usually
has three stages of development, is uni
versal disease in England and America.
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 u publication issued by Brompton
Hospital for Consumptives, London, Eng
land, which states that 90 per cent of the
patients of that institution have unsus-
pected kidney disorder DIR. Herman
Brehmer, an eminent German authority,
also says that Consumption is always due
10 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 sys-
TEN, and if they are diseased and thus fail
TO expel 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 the rea-
soning Of its proprietor holds good.
There is no doubt but that in too many
AuobdlNcS liit lltulCdl lIdJcIullN uOClOI lOt
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 as a rule, now a-days,
go 10 their newspaper for information, and
we believe sucl truths as we. have in
stanced could be proclaimed therein more
advantageously TO the public and much
more beneicially TO the proprietors.