MICROBES AND DISEASE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12427, 16 February 1901, Page 4

MICROBES AND DISEASE.

The normal condition of all life,, animal or vegetable, is health. We were all intended by Nature to be healthy, and, if we can, by care, keep aCJ the mechanism of our bodies jn complete working order, it is doubtful whether any disease can establish itself. The most virulent microbe would be unable to effect a lodgment in a perfectly sound and healthy body, or, even if it did, the white corpuscles of I be blood, whose province it is to deal with such an intruder, would immediately assemble in such force, and make so vigor-, on* an attack, that the .microbe wouief be exterminated and absorbed before it could do any serious mischief. What gives the microbe its chance is an enfeebled condition of the vital forces. It attacks a citadel, the defences of which are in some parts weak; ’ establishes a foothold, and then proceeds to multiply by dividing itself into two or more parts. ‘These parts again divide in a similar manner, until what, was originally one microbe becomes tens of millions. " Our first great cave should be to keep the body in thorough repair. The organs most susceptible to weakness are the kidneys and liver. We catch a slight cold, j The liver and kidneys become congested, and cannot properly perform their functions, and there is an accumulation in the system of waste products, which would ordinarily he carried off through their natural channels, if the kidneys and liver were doing their duty. The result, is rheumatism, indigestion, dyspepsia, impure ’ blood, biliousness, jaundice, anemia, gravel, gout, neuralgia, perhaps Bright’s disease.- All these disorders are due to defective action of the kidneys and liver. . Warner’s Safe Cure possesses a wonderfully specific action upon those vital organs, and‘speedily restores them to health, with the result that any complaint due to their inactivity can no longer -prevailMr Reginald Parnell, of Barpaldine, Queensland, in a letter dated Nov. 5, 1900, says;—“l suffered for a. short time, but severely, from indigestion, which caused great pain in my chest and between the ! shoulders. After passing several sleepless i nights, I determined to try Warmer’s Safe Cure, and am pleased to say that the pains have entirely let me.” 231