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5
Month
January
Year
1888
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Some time ago an article was published in the Scientific American which at the time attracted wide attention. By request of a correspondent we reproduce the leading points tberein. To underetand how intimately related are the human kidneys to the physical health " we propose, metaphorically speaking, to take one from the human body and place it in the wash-bowl before ub, and examine it." You will imagine that we have before us a body thaped like a bean, smooth and glistening, about four inches in length.twoin width and one in thickness. It weighs in the adult about five ounces. The body of the average size man contains about ten quarts of blood, every drop of which passes through these filterers or sewers, many times a day, (as often as through the heart,) making a complete revolution in three minutes. The ki'lnf ys take away deadly impurities from 5 gallons of blood each hour, or about 59 barrels each day , or 9,125 hogsheads a year. Let us slice this delicate organ open lengthwise, and roughly describe its interior. Wefind ittobefilled with hutidreds of little tubes, short and thread-like, starting from the arteries, ending in a little tuft about midway from the outside, opening into a sac which holds the water to further undergo purification before it passes into the urelers, and out of the body. These little tubes are filters which do their work automatically, and rigbt here the disease of the kidney first begins. From the slightest irregularity in our habits, from cold, from high living, from stimulants or a thousand and one other daily causes, they lose their force. What is the result? Congestión or stoppage of the current of blood in the small blood vessels surrounding them, which become blocked ; these delicate membranes areirritated ; inflammation is set up, then pus is formed, which collects in the sac ; the tubes are at first partially, and soon totally, unable to do their work. The sac goes on distending with this corruption, pressing upon the blood vessels. All this time, remember, the blood which is entering the kidneys to be filtered. is passing through this terribly disgusting pus, for it cannot take any other route. It would be just as reasonable to expect to escape contagión if a pest-house were set aoross Broadway and ccuntless tbousands were compelled togo through its pestilential doors, as for one to expect the blood to escape pollution when constantly running through such a diseased kidney. Now, what is the result? Why that the blood takes up and deposits this poison as it sweeps along into every organ, into every inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone, from your head to yonr feet. And whenever, from hereditary influence or otherwise, one part of the body is weaker than another, a countless train of diseases is established, such as consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there is a delicate stomach, nervousness, insanity, paralysis or heart disease, in those who have weak nerves or bad circulation. But the medical profession knowinc that they cannot cure diseases of the kidneys, treat the manifold symptoms caused by this primary or causative disease. As fastas they cure one eymptom, another secondary one appears, and so they go on, uselessly treating effects, the cause being untouched. But you say my kulneys are all right. I have no pain in the back." Mistaken man! People die of kklney disease, of so bad a character that the organs are rotten, and yet they never there had a pain nor an ache. " How can yon know that you have kidney disease?" Only by noting the general effects wronght by the kidney poisoned blood in other parts of the body. Kidney disease disguises itself under symptoms of coramon head, lungs, skin, liver, and Btomach disorders. If you notice that you are not in as reliable health as formerly, in any respect, then the chances are that, though you may have no known chronic disease, your blood is fiill of uric kidney acid. Then comes in the ounce of prevention. Then you nhould use Warner's safe cure, the only trustworthy specific for uric acid or kidney diseasef, primary or secondary. The most skillful physicians cannot detect such diseases at times, for the kidneys themselves cannot be examined by any means which we have at our coimnand. Even an analysis of the water, chemically and microscopically, reveáis nothing definite in many cases, even when the kidneys are fairly broken down. Then look out for them, as disease, no matter where situated,to 93 per cent, as sbown by after death examinations, has its origin in the breaking down of those secreting tubes in the interior of the kidney. Warner's safe cure, as it becomes year after year better known for its wonderful cures and its power over the kidneys, has done and is doing more to increase the average duration of life than all the physicians known. It is a true specific, mild but certain, harmless but energetic and agreeable to the taste. Take it when sick, as a mire. and never let a month go by without taking a few bottles as a preventive, that the kidneys may be kept in proper order, the blood pure, that health and long life may be your blessing.

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