Newspaper Criticism

It is a privilege every newspaper reserves to itself to criticise, adversely if needs be, for the public's benefit, anything in which the public is deeply interested. It is the custom of H. II. AVarner & Co., proprietors of the renowned Kidney and Li ver Cure, better known as Warner's Safe Cure, to flood the country, and especially the post-offices, with medical pamphlets. The writer has taken the liberty to examine one of these marvelous little books, and finds food for criticism, but before indulging in it, will give our readers some quotations therefrom, from the highest medicalauthorities.whioh we believe worthy of consideration. Under the head of "No Distinctive Symptoms Apparent," we find : First - More adulta are carried off in this country by chronic kidney disease than by any other malady except coueumption. - Thompson. Second - Deaths from such diseases are increasing at the rate of 250 per cent, a decade. - Edwards. Third - Bright's Disease has no symptomsofits own, and may long exist without the knowledge of the patiënt or practitioner, as no pain will be feit in the kidneys or t-heir vieinity. - erts. Fourth- In the fatal cases - and most cases have hitherto been fatal - the synrptoms of diseased kidneys will firet appear in extremely different organs of the body as stated above. - Thompson. Fifth - Only when the disease has reached its final and fatal stages may the usual symptoms of Albumen and tube casts appear in the water, and with great pain rack the diseased organs. - Thompson. Sixth - Bright's Disease, which usually has three stages of development, is a universal disease in England and America. - Roberts and Edwards. Thompson is authority forsaying that more adults are carried off in this country by kidney disease than any other malady except consumption. Under Warner's "Safe Cure" article on consumption we find a paragraph claiming to be a quotation from a publication Bued by Brompton Hospital for Consumptives, London, England, which states tliat 52 per cent. of the patients of that institution have unsuspected kidney disorder. Dr. Herman Brehmer, an eminent Germán authority, also says that consumption is always due to deficiënt nutrition of the lungs, beoause of bad blood. Medical science can no longer dispute the fact that the kidneys are the principal blood purifying organs of the human system, and if they are diseased and thus fail to ex pel Ihe uric acid poison or the waste matter of the blood, as the blood passes through these two great organs, the "Safe Cure" claim is correct, and the reasoning of its proprietor holds good. There is no doubt but that in too many instances the medical fraternity doctor for symptoms, instead of striking at the root of the disease, and that under this form of treatment many patients die. We cannot, however, see the necessity of continually flooding the country with the advertising medical books, when their story once well told is enough for the time being. People as a rule, now-a-days, go to their newspaper for information, and we believe such truths as we have instanced could be proclaimed therein more advantageously to the public and muchmore beneficially to the proprietors.