Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-15
KIDNEY DISEASE AVERTED.
Some Rules for People of Seden-
tary Habits.
low to Detect This Approaching Trouble and Nip
1t in the Bud.

Sedentary habits cause kidney troubles.
People who are obliged to sit all day long,
5tenographerS, telephone and telegraph
| operators, seamStresses, milliners, shoe
makers, tailorS, book keepers, clerks who
| land over counter, enrineers, iiremen,
| conductors, brallemen, and others on
steam and electric railroads. are all more
Ut less affected with disease in the kid
heys. 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 peo-
pie has constipation, and a treat many
more of them have kidney troubles and
don't know it. Often incipient Bright's
disease will fasten itself upon a person
and the only Indication of anything
wrong that the layman can discern is a
Slight aching or tired feeling across the
small of the back. This goes UNDECIDED
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
cloudeG, discolored, albuminous fluid
that tells as plainly as a picture that
inside of these delicate and important or
gan' there exists q condition of disease
such as to need quick and powerful treat
ment in order to preserve them from decay
and save the life of the owner. Always be
ourguard forthe slightest pain orsore-
ness across the back. Don't let it 90 IN
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 it so carefully too that not the most
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 well
f. 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 a
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 makeyo hold your nose,
could you see it. Think of them in their
struggling attempt to obey nature, pour
ing this filthy and disgusting mass into
your lungs, neart ana 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 suspectng it,
may be il this very position. If you
have a running sore on your arm, you
would bathe 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 rs yourarm. You
need to flush out that pus and secretion
and assist nature to restore healthy ac-
ton. You need something known to go
direct to your kidneys through the blood
and that has healthy effect. "Blood