7 THE LIVER'S WORK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7732, 27 February 1909, Page 1

7 THE LIVER'S WORK.

By "Regulator."

The liver may Tpe described as van exceedingly complicated chemical laboratory. The blood which enters ihf liver through the portal vein is loaded with the products of the digestion of food. These products ishe liver dealtwith in such a manner that the composition of the blood when it leaves the liver is very much changed, a sor' of secondary digestion having inlet. place in the liver. Bile has beer manufactured out of the blood; ur?< acid, which is practically insoluble. has been converted into urea, which is completely soluble. A substaneicalled glycogen has been made fion the sugar in the blood and stoied i:-.' the liver for future use, and various other transformations have taki'L place. The liver also removes iron, the blood red corpuscles winch an worn out, and are of no further utility. , ■ ■ {'■ The liver makes and extracts fro'r. the blood two or three pounds of bik every day. The bile is delivered into the intestines, and acts as a natural cathartic, besides assisting in the di gestion of fatty food and re<bardin» the decomposition of such food as i; : passes along the intestines. . ■■■ ■ ; The glycogen formed is retained in the liver, and is again converted ii-'c 6Ugar, which is supplied to the 'block.-' gradually, and in such quantity atmay be necessary for the blood's enrichment. ;.;■■■■ Now, if the liver fails to do its wor!> thoroughly, it follows that the blood. instead of-having its substance d«al(----with and cleansed in the manner de scribed..is earned by the veins to ever}; part of the body in a condition which is inimical to the welfare of the. body. In. other words, the blood" is laden with biliary poisons, and it is the piesence of'these bilia.ry. poisons in the blood which causes us to suffer from indigestion,l biliousness, sick headache, general debility, "anaemia and jaundice. If the liver properly per- . forms its functions, the' blood'distributed is pure, -and nourishes thei nerves, instead of being laden with poisons which irritate the whole nervous system, and give rise"to the-die-; orders named. ■ • A wonderful remedy in cases of dis-i ease of inactivity of the liver is found; in Warmer's Safe Cure, which for . thirty years has proved its efficacy 1 continuously, even when treatment by all other means had failed. Sufferers from a disordered liver should lose no time in availing themselves of the relief to be obtained from this valuable. specific. In addition to the regular 5s and 2s 9d bottles of Warner's Safe Cure, a concentrated form of tae medicine is now issued at 2s 6d per bottle. Warner's Safe Cure (Concentrated) is not compounded with alcohol, and coiutains the same number of doses as the 5s bottle of Warner's Safe Cure. H. H. Warner and Co,, Limited, Melbourne, Vie.