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Deadly Drinking Water!

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Typhiod fever rages everywhere! Wherever cities are dependent upon rivera or streams for their drinking water, the fever rages violently. Throughout the entire South-west and North-weat the wells are low ; the water is of very poor quality ; and here alao the fever rages. The authorities of Albany, New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Philadelphia and other large cities are warning the people not to drink the water without flrst boiling it to kill the malarial and typhoid germs. Surely a winter of malaria and typhoid will ill prepare our people to encounter a summer of cholera. Cholera and typhoid and malarial fevers can ali be prevented by simple rules of life, and these rules should be studied by every one. These diseases are symptoms of a low state of the system, produced by the vitiated blood. This blood is made impure because of the impuritiea in the drinking water, these impurities being deadly poisons which paralyze the nerve action of the kidneys and liver. When these blood purifying organs are paralyzed, then the natural waste of the body - the uricacid - accumulates in the blood, and fever cannot be prevented until thia excess of uric acid has been removed. The greatest necessity of everyday life is pure water. Two-thirdsof one's body is made up of water. If the water we drink is impure, then how can we hope to escape diseased conditions? It is impossible. The stomach, liver and kidneys cannot purify polluted water. Some cautious people resort to the filter for purifying water, but even the filter does not remove this poison. for water of the most deadly character may pass through this filter and become clear, yet the poison, disguised, is there. They who use filters know that they must become renewed at regular periods, for even though they do not take out all the impurity, they soon become foul. Now in like manner the human kidneys act as a filter for the blood, and if they are filled up with impurities and become foul like the filter, all the blood in the system coursiug through them becomes bad, for it is now a conceded fact that the kidneys are the chief means whereby the "blood is purified. These organs are filled with thousands of hair-like tubes, which drain the impurities from the blood, as the sewer pipes drain impurities from our houses. If a sewer pipe breaks under a house, the sewage escapes into the earth and filis the house with poisonous gas ; so if any of the thousand and one little hairlike sewer tubes of the kidneys break down, the entire body is affectedbythis awful poison. It is a scientific fact that the kidneys have few nerves of sensation; and,consequently, disease may exist in these organs for a long time and not be suspecUd by the individual. It is impossible to filter or take the death out of the blood when the deraogement exists in these organs, and if the blood is not filtered then the uric acid or kidney poison, removable only by Warner's safe cure, accumulates in the system and attacks any organ, producing nine out of ten ailments, just as sewer gas and bad drainage produce so many fatal disorders. Kidney disease may be known to exist if there is any marked departurefrom ordinary health without apparent known cause, and it should be understood by all that the greatest peril exists and is intensified if there is the least neglect to treat it promptly with that great specific, Warner's safe cure, a remedy that has received the highest recognition by scientific men, who have thoroughly investigated the character of kidney derangements. The Hver, when deranged, immediatey announces the fact by sallow skin, constipated bowels, coated tongue and headaches; but the kidney when diseased struggles on for a long time, and the fact of its disease can only be discovered by the aid of the microscope or by the physician who is skillful enough to trace the most indirect effects in the system to the derangement of these organs as the prime cause.

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