Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-20

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
DE- less affected with disease in the kid
news. 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 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 layman 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 picture that
inside of these delicate and important or
cans 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
onyour guard for the slightest pain orsore-
ness across the back. Don't let it 60 un-
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 filtering and purifying the
liquids that pass into your system. They
do it so carefully too that not the most
infnitesimal speck of foreign or disease
breeding matter can get into the vitals
of the body. While they are healthy,
they do more toward keeping you well
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-
corrupted, 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. ThinkOf them in their
struggling attempt to obey nature, pour
ing TINS nItny anu disgusting maSS lntO
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 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 as yourarm. You
need to flush out that pus and secretion
and assist nature to restore healthy &C
ton. You need something known to 60
direct to your kidneys through the blood
and that has a healthy effect. 'Blood