Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-16

Sedentary habits cause kidney troubles
People who are obliged to sit all day long
stenographers, telephone and telegraph
operators, seamstresses, milliners, shot
makers, tailors, book keepers, clerks who
stand over counter, engineers, firemen
conductors, brakemen, and Others or
steam and electric railroads, are all more
Or less affected with disease in the kid
neys. Long hours in 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 great many
more of them have kidney troubles and
don't know it, Often incipient Bright's
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 a picture that
inside of these delicate and important or
CANS there exists a condition of disease
Sutu DIS W lltCu qtlith anu JpNCIlul tltdl-
ment in order to preserve them from decay
and save the life of the owner. Always be
On yourguard forthe slightest pain orsore-
ness across the back. Don't let it go I'M
needed for at that very instant your kid
neys may be in anawful condition. When
healthy they perform an important func-
tion, that of tiltering and purifying the
liquids that pass into your system. They
do it so carefully too that not the most
.nfinitesimal 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, unn-
corrupted, walk in. Think of these prec-
ous 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,
pus that would make you hold your nose,
could you see it. Think of them in their
attempt to obey nature. pour
ing this filthy and disgusting mass into
your lungs. heart and everywhere over
he 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
tul? Yet you, though not suspecting it,
may be in this very position. If you
have a 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-
zion. You need something known to go
direct to your kidneys through the blood
and that has a healthy effect. BLOOD