Newspaper Criticism.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 129, 1 June 1889, Page 4

Newspaper Criticism.

It is a privilege every nowppaper reservos to itself to criticise, adversoly if needs be, for the public's benofit, anything in which the public is deeply interested. It i 3 the custom of H. H. Warner & Co., proprietors of the renowned " Safe Cnre," to flood tho country, and especially the postoffices, with medical pamphlets. The writer has taken the Hborty to oxamino one of these marvellous little books, and finds food for oriticism, but boforo indulging in it, will jrivo onr readers some quotations therefrom, from the highest medical authorities, wbioh we believe worthy of consideration. Under tho head of '"No Distinctive Symptoms Apparent," wo find : First— Moro adults are carried off in this country by chronic kidney disease than_ by any other one malady except consumption. — Thompson. Socond— Doatbs from such diseases are increasing at tho rate of 250 por cent, a decade. — Edwards. Third— Bright's disease has no symptoms of its own, and may long oxist without the knowlodge of tho patient or practitioner, as no pain will bo felt in tho kidneys or thoir viointy. — Roberts. Fourth— ln tho fatal cases— and most casps have hithorto boon fatal— tho symptoms of diseased kidneys will first appear in extremely different organs of tho body as stated above.— Thompson. Fifth— Only when tho disease has reaohod its final and fatal stagps may the usual symptoms of albumen and tnbo casts appear in the water, and will great pain rack the diseased organs. — Thompson. Sixth— Bright's Direase which usually has three stages of dovolopmont, is a universal 'disease in every country. — Roberts and Edwards. Thompson is authority for saying that more adults are carried off in this country by kidney disease than any other malady except consumption. Under Warner's ' ' Safe Cure artiule on Consumption wo find a paragraph olaiming to be a quotation from a publication issued by Brompton Hospital for Consumptives, London, Kngland, which states that 52 por cent of the patients of that institution have unsuspected kidnoy disorder. Dr. Herman Brehmer, an eminent German authority also says that Consumption is always duo to dofioient nutrition of tho lungs, because of bad blood. Medical soionce can no longer disputo tho fact that the kidnoys are the principal blood purifying organs of tho human system, and if they are diseased and thus fail to expel the uric acid poison, or tho waste matter of tho blood, as the blood passos through theso two great organs, the " Safe Curo " claim is correct, and the reasoning of its proprietor holds good. There i 3 no doubt but that in too many instances medical practitioners doctor tor symptoms, instead of otrikinsr at tho root of the disease, aud that U'dor this form of treatment many patients die. We cannot, however, sco tbo necessity of continually flooding tho country with these advertising medical books, whou their story once well told is enough for tho timo bsing. People, as a rule now-a-days, go to thoir newspaper for information, and we boliovo such truths as we have instanced could be proclaimed therein moro advantageously to tho public and much more bonefioially to the proprietor?.