Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-13
KIDNEY DISEASE AVERTED.
Some Rules for People of Seden-
tary Habits.
How to Detect This Approaching Trouble and Nip
It i'm the Bud.

Sedentary habits cause kidney troubles
People who are obliged to sit all day long
stenographers, telephone and telegraph
| operators, Seamstresses, milliners, shoe
makers, tailors, book keepers, clerks who
| stand over a counter, engineers, firemen
conductors, brakemen, and Others on
steam and electric railroads, are all more
Or less affected with disease in the kid
neys. Long hours in a sitting posture
cramps the kidneys, bowels and Other
organs in the pelvic regions. You will
find that nearly everyone of these PEG.
pie has constipation, and a great many
more of them have kidney troubles and
don't know it. Often incipient Brights
disease will fasten itself upon person
and the only indication of anything
wrong that the 1ayman can discern is a
slight aching or tired feeling across the
small of the back. This goes unheeded
because it in itself is apparently of no
great consequence. Let the knowing
physician examine the water, when these
symptoms are manifest, and he'll find a
clouded, discolored, albuminous fluid
that tells as plainly as a picture that
inside of these delicate and important or
gans there exists condition of disease
ouSh % w iCCu fuiSh anu poWOAIul tICdO-
ment in order to preserve them from decay
and save the life of the owner. Always be
onyour guard for the slightest pain or sore
ness across the back. Don't let it 90 I'M
needed for at that very instant your kid
neys may be in an awful condition. When
healthy they perform an important func-
ton, that of tiltering and purifying the
liquids that pass into your system. They
do oorafnlIxy hot 81 ho
infinitesimal speck of foreign or disease
breeding matter can get into the vitals
of the body. While they are healthy,
they do moro toward keeping you we'll
than any other organ of the whole anat-
Omy. When they are impoverished and
weak, unable to stand as the barrier
against disease, it's like throwing down
the protecting walls and picket lines of
great city and letting the enemy, unin-
terrupted, walk in. Think of these prec-
ious organs becoming enfeebled through
want of nourishment. Think of them
instead of being plump, vigorous, heal
thy, of being thin, lifeless, almost blood
less, eaten full of holes and secretion, a
pus that would make you hold your nose,
could you see it. Think of them in their |
struggling attempt to obey nature, pour
ing THIS ultny anu disgusting mass into
your lungs, heart and everywhere over
the body, on account of their inability to
eject it through the proper channels and
out of the system.
Does this appear to you as being health |
full? Yet you, though not suspecting it,
may be in this very position. If you
have running sore on your arm, you
would battle it carefully with warm
water to cleanse it, then tenderly cover
it with some healing lotion. This much |
to protect it from the poisons in the air, |
and to assist your internal medicines to
act more thoroughly. Your kidneys |
need washing as much as yourarm. You
need to flush out that pus and secretion |
and assist nature to restore healthy ac-
ton. You need something known to 60 |
direct to your kidneys through the blood
and that has healthy effect. "Blood