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SCIENTIFIC TRUTH I REGARDING THE FUNCTIONS OF AN IMPORANT ORGAN, Of Which the Public Knows but Little, Worthy Careful Consideration, To the Editor of the Scientific American: Will you permit us to make known to the public the facts we have learned during thepast 8 years concerning disorders of the human Kidneys and the organs which diseased Kidneys so easily break down' You are conducting a 'cientific Paper, and are unprejudiced except in favor of TRUTH. It is needless to say, no medical journal of Code standing would admit these facts, for very obvious reasons. H. H. WARNER &: 00., Proprietors of Warner's Safe Cure." That we may emphasize and clearly explain the relation the kidneys sustain to the general health, and how much is dependent upon them, we propose, metaphorically speaking, to take one from the human body, place in the wash bowl before us, and examine it for the public benefit. You will imagine that we have before us a body shaped like a bean, smooth and glistening, about four inches in length, two in width, and one in thickness. It ordinarily weighs, in the adult male, about five ounces, but is somewhat lighter in the female. A small organ you say. But understand, the body of the average size man contains about ten quarts of blood, of which every drop passes through these filters or setters, as they may be called, many times a day, as often as through the heart, making a complete revolution in three minutes. From the blood they separate the waste material, working away, steadily, night and day, sleeping or waking, tireless as the heart itself, and fully of as mnch vital importance; removing impurities from 65 galloons of blood each hour, or about 49 barrels each day, or 9,125 hogsheads a year! What a wonder that the kidneys can last any - length of time under this prodigious strain, treated and neglected as they are! We slice this delicate organ open lengthwise with our knife, and will roughly describe its interior. We find it to be of a reddish brown color, soft and easily torn; filled with hundreds of little tubes, short and thread-like,;4tarting from the arteries, ending in.a little tuft about midway from the outside opening into a cavity of considerable size, which is called the pelvis, or, roughly speaking, a sac, which\i&for the purpose of holding the water to further undergo purification before it passes down from here into the ureters, and so on to the outside of the body. These little tubes are the filters which do their work automatically, and right here is wheree the disease of the kidney first begins. , Doing the vast amount of work which they are obliged to, from the slightest irregularity in our habits, froin cold, from high living, from stimulants; or a tbHfe and one other causes which occur every day, come somewhat weakened in their nerve force. What is the result! Congestion or stoppage of the current of blood in the small blood vessels surrounding them, which become blocked; these delicate membranes are irritated; inflammation is set up, then pus is formed, which collects in the pelvis or sac; the tubes are at first partially, and soon are totally unable to do their work. The pelvro 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 &l- e i , d us for it cannottakeany other route] Stop and think ofmit for a moment. Do you realize the importance, nay;the vital necessity, of having the kidneys in order ? Can you expect when they are diseased or obstructed, no matter how little, that you can have pure blood and escape disease? It would be just as reasonable to expect. if a pest house were set across Broadway and countless thousands were compelled to go throughits pestilential doors, an escape from contagion and disease as for one to expect the blood to escape pollution when constantly running through 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 your feet. And whenever, from hereditary influence or otherwise, some part of the body is weaker than another, a countless train of diseases is established, snch as consumption, in weak lungs; dyspepsia, where there is a delicate stomach; nervousness, insanity, paralysis, or heart disease in those who have weak nerves. The heart must soon feel the effects f the poison, as it requires pure Mood to keep it n right action. It increases its stroks-in number and force to compensate for the natural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to crowd the impure blood through this obstruction, causing pain, palpitation, or an out-of-breath feeling. Unnatural as this forced labor is, the heart must soon falter, becoming weaker and weaker, until one day it suddenly stops, and death from apparent heart disease is the verdictl But the medical profeesionJiearned and dignified, calls these diseases by treats them alone, and patients die, fiorthe arteries are carrying slow death to the affected part, constantly adding fuel brought from these suppurating, pus-laden kidneys, which here in our wash bowl are very putrefaction itself, and which should have been cured first. But this is not all the kidneys have to do; for you must remember that each adult takes about seven pounds of nourishment every twenty-four hours to supply the waste of the body which is constantly going on, a waste equal to the quantity taken. This, too, the kidneys have to separate from the blood, with all other decomposing matter. But you say."My kidneys are all right. I have no pain in the back. Mistaken manl People die of kidney disease of so bad a character that the organs are rotten, and yet they have never there had a pain nor an ache Why ? Because the disease begins, as we have shown, in the interior of the kidney, where there arefew nerves fflelfng to convey the sensation of pain. Why this is so we may neverknow. When you consider tleir great work, the .delicacy of their structure, the ease with which they are deranged, can you wonder at the ill health of our men and women? Health and long h'fe cannot be expected when so vital an organ is impaired. No wonder some writers say we are degenerating. Don't you see the great, the extreme, importance of keeping this machinery in working order? Could the finest engine do even a fractional part of this work, without attention from the engineer? Don't you see how dangerous this hidden disease is? It is lurking about us constantly, without giving any indication of its presence. The most skillful physicians cannot detect it at times, for the kidneys themselves cannot be examined by any means which we have at our command. Even an analysis of the water, chemically and microscopically, reveals 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 shown by after-death examinations, has its origin in the breaking down of these secreting tubes in the interior of the kidney. As you value \health, as you desire long life free from sickness and suffering, give these organs some attention. Keep themin good condition, and thus prevent (as is easily done) all disease. 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