QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12955, 26 August 1905, Page 6 (Supplement)

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Q. .1 HAVK'been feeling very poorly lately, and have just been told by my doctor that I am suffering from uric poisoning. I. shall be glad if you will tell mo just what uric poisoning- means, is it a serious mattery

A. Uric poisoning' is caused by the retention in Iho blood of various substances which should leave the body in solution. The retention of these substances is clue to a. diseased or inactive condition of the kidneys. When the kidneys are working perfectly they filter am! 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 (he wear and tear of the tissues of the bod) - . This is dead matter, and its pretence in the blood is poisonous. The three pints of normal urine should contain about ten grains in weight of uric acid, an ounce of urea, together with other animal and mineral matter varying from athird of an ounce to nearly an ounce. Q. Then I am to understand that tile substances yon mention when not eliminated from the body, in.the natural manner constitute what is known as uric poisoning. What are 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 all caused by uric poisons. Indigestion, au-temia,-persistent headache, and general debility are often solely due to the same cause. In fact, if the kidneys are doing their work freely and thoroughly _ none of the complaints mentioned could trouble m, as the causative poisons would be absent.* Q. I had no idea that to much depended upon the efficient action of the kidneys. 1 suppose thai when anyone is suffering from rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, gravel, stone, bladder troubles, anlemia, debility, persistent headache, or indigestion, the scientific method of effecting a cure 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 can bo effected. The kidneys must be restored to health and activity, so that they may bo enabled to remove the daily production of poisons in the body, or the patient must continue to suffer. Q. I 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 tho chief cause of most of the disorders from which we suffer.' A. Tho 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 almost always directly affected, and the contrary; is likewise true. In the liver various substances are actually 'made from the blood. Two or three pounds of bilo 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 enrichment. 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. M, the; fuHctJotis of- the' kidneys 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?

A. Yes, that is the case, and it. was the realisation of this important fact which led to the discovery of that invaluable medicine, Warner's Safe Cure. About thirty years ago certain medical men, knowing that if they could find a medicine which would beneficially affect alike the kidneys and the liver they could control most of the common disorders, devoted themselves to the search for such a remedy. After many disappointments their efforts were rewarded, and a medicine now known as Warner's Safe Cure was proved to possess the. required properties in the fullest degree. Warner's Safe Cure has a marvellous stimulating and healing effect, upon both the kidneys arid liver, and by restoring those vital organs to health and activity it necessarily cures all disorders duo to the retention in the blood of urinary and biliary poisons, such aa rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, blood disorders, anamiia, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice, gravel, stone, bladder troubles, general debility, and sick headache. "Even Bright's disease, probably the most fatal of all diseases, yields to treatment by Warner's Safe Cure. Cures effected by Warner's Safe Cure are permanent simply because they are natural.