THE LIVER'S WORK.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 117, 15 May 1909, Page 3

THE LIVER'S WORK.

By "Regulator."

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The liver may be described, as an exceedingly complicated chemical laboratory. The blood which enters the liver through the portal vein is loaded with the products of the digestion of food. These products the liver deals, with in such a mamwr that the composition of the blood when it leaves the liver is very much changed, a sort of secondary digestion having taken place in the liver. Biie has been manufactured out of the blood; ixrio acid, which is practically insoluble, has been converted into urea, which is completely soluble. A substance called glycogen has been made from the sugar in the blood and stored in the liver for future use, and various other transformations have taken place. The liver also removes from the blood red corpuscles winch are worn out, and are of no further utility. The liver makes and extracts from the blood two or three pounds of bile, every day. The bile is delivered into the intestines, amd acts as a natural cathartic, besides assisting m the digestion of fatty food and retarding, the decomposition of such food as it , passes along the intestines. j The. glycogen formed is retained in the liver, and is again converted into sugar* which is supplied to the blood gradually, and in. such quantity as may be necessar/ for the blood's enrichment. -■'■}' Now, if the liver fails to do its work . thoroughly, it follows that the blood, instead of having its substance dealt with and cleansed in the manner-de-scribed, is carried by theveims to every part of the body in a condition which is inimical, to the welfare of the. body. Ttv other words, the blood is laden with biliary poisons, and it is the presence of these biliary poisons in the blood which causes us to suffer from indigestion, biliousness, isAck _ headache, general debility, anaemia and jaundice. If the liver properly performs its functions, the blood distributed is pure, apd nourishes the nerves, instead of being - laden with poisons which irritate the whole nervous system, and1 give rise to the -die- * orders named.,' A wonderful remedy in t>ases of disease or inactivity of the liver is found in..- Warmer's Safe Cure, which for thirty years has proved vits. efficacy 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. Im addition to the regular 5s and 2s 9d bottles of Warner's Safe Cure. a concentrated form of the medicine is now issued at 2s 6d per bottle. Warner's Safe Cure (Concentrated) is H.ot compounded with alcohol,, and contains the same number of doses as the 5s bottle of Warner's Safe Cure. H. H. Warner and Co., Limited, Vie. - '