QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1913, Page 6

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Q. I have been feeling very poorly lately, and have just been told that I am suffering from uric poisoning. I shall bo glad if you will tell me just what uric poisoning means. Is it a sexious matter?

A. Uric poisoning is caused by the retention in the blood of substances which should leave the body in solution. The retention of these substances is due to a diseased or inactive condition of the kidneys. When the kidneys are working perfectly, they filter and extract from the blood of the average individual about three pints of urine every day. In this quantity of urine should be dissolved various waste material produced by the wear and tear of the tissues of the body. This is dead matter, and its presence in the blood is poisonous. The three pints of normal urine ' should contain about ten grains in weight of uric acod, an ounce of urea, together with other animal and mineral matter varying from a third of an ounce to nearly au ounce.

Q. Then I am to understand that the substances you mention when nob eliminated from the body in the natural manner constitute what is known as uric poisoning. What aTe the usual symptoms by which the presence of these poisons is manifested? < A. Now you are asking a rather large question. Many complaints which are commonly called diseases are not actually diseases, in themselves. For instance, Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica, Gravel, Stone, and Bladder Troubles are frequently caused by uric poisons. Indigestion, Anaemia, Persistent Headache, and General Debility are often solely due to the same cause. In fact, speaking generally, if the kidn&ys were doing their work freely and thoroughly, none of the complaints mentioned would trouble us as the causative poisons would be absent. Q. I had no idea that so much depended upon the efficient action of the kidneys. I, suppose that when anyone is suffering'^, from Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica, Gravel, Stone, Bladder Troubles, Anaemia, Debility, Persistent Headache, or Indigestion, the scientific method of effecting a cure, in most cases, would be to directly treat the patient for the kidneys? A. Exactly. In fact, that is the only way in which a radical and permanent cure would be effected. The kidneys must be restored to health and activity, so that they may be enabled to remove the daily production of poisons in the body, or the patient must continue to suffer. Q.QI have always been under the impression that the liver had a great deal to do With the maintenance of our general health, but it seems that the kidneys are the chief cause of most of the disorders from which we suffer.

v A. The work done by the liver is of the utmost importance, and it is closely associated with the work done by the kidneys. Indeed, when anything is the matter with the liver the kidneys are generally affected, an<? the contrary i« likewise true. In the liver various substances are actually made from the blood. Two or throe pounds of bile are thus made every day. The liver takes sugar from the blood, converts it into another form, and stores it up so as to be able again to supply it to the blood, gradually, as the latter requires enricltment. The liver changes uric acid, which is insoluble, into urea which is completely soluble, and the liver also deals with the blood" corpuscles which have lived their life and are useful no longer. ©

Q. As the functions of the kidney* and liver are so intimately related, I gather that if there is reason to suspect that either organ is not doing its work efficiently, a curative agent should be employed which would act equally upon the kidneys and liver?

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