Kidney Disease

lts Insidious Progress and Sudden Termination.

Not long ago a man who had made a success in business bought a country place and retired from active commercial life. By all outward appearances he was a healthy man. He entered upon the life of his country home with great zest, engaging himself in the culture and care of flowers and enjoying the pleasures of out door life to the full. One day they found him unconscious on the lawn. The family believed he must have been the victim of tramps. The doctor came but could not rouse him from his stupor. When the autopsy was made it showed that death was the result of kidney disease long neglected.

This is a true story. The facts are given as the newspapers told them. Only the names are suppressed. It is a story that in one way or another is being repeated every day, the victims being men and women who suffer from " kidney trouble" and neglect it.

SLOW POISONING. It is the office of kidneys to filter the blood and remove from it those foreign matters which if retained in the blood corrupt and poison it. The principles so eliminated by the kidneys are constantly being produced in the tissues of the body. The kidneys are therefore ceaselessly active and care for an enormous quantity of blood. When by reason of disease the activity of the kidneys is impaired, or when they are overtaxed by being required to eliminate from the blood an undue quantity of corrupting substances, thrown into the blood as a result of disease of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition ; then it is that the poisonous deposits first begin to collect in the blood, and breed deadly consequences. The accumulation of the poison is slow, and the physical changes which accompany the poisoning of the system are slow also, and this makes the great danger of the disease. Many times the victim of kidney disease does not awaken to danger before the entire system is poisoned, and the struggle for life is desperate and doubtful.

ACT AT ONCE. Prompt action cannot be too strongly urged upon those who share even the slightest symptoms of " kidney trouble." The timely use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will save both suffering and expense.

"For a long time I was suffering and was hardly able to get about," writes Mr. Andrew J. Jennings, of Thomas, Tucker Co., W. Va., Box 194. "Was bothered with kidney trouble and my whole system was out of order ; had no appetite. A friend of mine told me to try Dr. Pierce' Golden Medical Discovery. I did so and the first bottle restored my appetite. I took six bottles of ' Golden Medical Discovery ' and some of the 'Pleasant Pellets' and feel like a new person. Think there is no better medicine and I heartily recommend these medicines to every one whose suffering is of the nature that mine was."

The symptoms of kidney disease are many and so variable that it is almost impossible to describe them all. In general the indications of kidney disease are pain in the back and loins, change in the urinary excretion, a depressed feeling with lassitude or weakness ; irregular heart beat ; hot and dry skin, deranged digestion, variable appetite, urinary incontinence, puffiness about the eyes, swelling of the ankles or in different parts of the body. These symptoms will not be present in any one case, probably, but any one of them is reason for a prompt attempt to cure its cause.

DON'T TAKE CHANCES. The symptoms of kidney disease are so variable and so liable to be mistaken that it is no uncommon thing for the inexperienced practitioner to treat the sufferer for the wrong disease. Such was the case probably with Mrs. Hayter, whose letter is given below. "Several different doctors treated her but none did her any good," until she consulted Dr. Pierce:

"I had been sick for more than a year with kidney trouble," writes Mrs. Lucy Hayter, of Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas. " Several different doctors treated me, but none did me any good. One doctor said I never could be cured, that I had Bright's disease. I suffered nearly death at times ; had spells the doctor called spasms. Was bed-fast most of the time for six months. My mother begged me to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. With but little hope I wrote to Dr. Pierce and he said he could cure me. I began to take his Golden Medical Discovery, and although I had given up to die I began to improve from the start, and by the time I had taken twenty-two bottles I was entirely cured. I thank God for the 'Golden Medical Discovery.' I weigh more than ever before in my life and I am entirely well."

Dr. Pierce invites any person who suffers from disease in chronic form to consult him by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.  A great many people, who, like Mrs. Hayter, have written to Dr. Pierce "with but little hope," have like her been perfectly and permanently cured by his treatment.

FREE ANALYSIS. An analysis of the urine will be made free of charge. This often determines the nature of the disease when accompanied with a full statement of symptoms. Do not neglect this opportunity to obtain a specialist's opinion on your condition absolutely without fee or charge, together with a free urinary analysis. If you are sick consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, without delay.

It is to be remembered that Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition, cleanses the blood of waste substances and so removes one of the causes which conduce to the over-burdening and disease of the kidneys.

Don't be fooled into trading a substance for a shadow. Any substitute offered as "just as good" as "Golden Medical Discovery " is a shadow of that medicine. There are cures behind every claim made for the "Discovery" which no "just as good " medicine can show.

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