Human Recklessness.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 273, 19 November 1887, Page 2

Human Recklessness.

A singular feature in the make up of man. kind is the recklessness of life, which at times becomes epidemic. Some foolhardy man sets the example, as did Webb in his attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara Falls, and immediately he has followers the world over who attempt dangerous feats from which no benefit, pecuniary or otherwise, can ensue. But recklessness of life is not confined alone to this class of people. We are all of us daily encountering a danger of far greater magnitude, which concealment for a time robs of its terrors. It is so insidious in its approach, fastening itself with a deadly grip ort the body before any palpable evidence is exhibited that the vitality is sapped, ottr constitutions undermined, and we are made wrecks, physically and mentally, before we have been alarmed. We refer to diseases of the kidneys, those subtle organs placed in our body to purify our blood, and,in connection with our bowels, to eliminate all the wasfee material which the system is daily throwing off. Dr. Dawson Williams says urinary diseases are becoming year by year more common, and anothereminentauthority says that deranged kidney action is the cause of 93 per cent, of all the diseases which afflict mankind. Dr. Ralfe makes a still more astonishing statement, to the effect that if the water of people who suffer from general disease was examined, 27 per cent, would be found to contain alburtfen. This is a startling statement, and confirms the fact that nearly every disease takes its origin from derangemont of the kidneys. That the disease is and has been on the increase since the time of Bright cannot be doubted, but that it has become as prevalent ac these statements lead us to believe seems almost impossible, and the assertions might well be doubted did they not come from such high authority. Tlw moral is a plain one, and is simply this : To have uninterrupted health and long life we must keep the kidneys in such a condition that they can perform the laborious function nature designed for them. How to do this is a question which for years we have looked in vain for physicians to answer. Their endeavours to discover a medicine which should have a controlling influence to prevent those disastrous results have been fruitless. But there is a remedy, purely vegetable, which is almost specific in its power over the kidneys, liver, and urinary organs. Thie remedy is Warner's safe cure. It hue a record with which no other medicine can compare, and its marvellons power over disease is confinnod by a mass of evidemo given daily by the colonial press.