QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13134, 24 March 1906, Page 4 (Supplement)

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Q- I have been feeling very poorly lately, ! a have just been told by my doctor that? I am suffering from uric poisoning. I shall be glad if you will tell me just what urio poisoning means. Is it a serious matter? A. Uric poisoning is caused by the retention in the blood of various substances which should leave the body in solution. J. he 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. Ihe three pints of normal urine should contain about ten grains in weight of urio 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 the substances you mention when not eliminated from tho body in the natural manner con\i'u' 6 ' la: 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, anaemia, 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 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, nouralgia, lumbago, sciatica, gravel, stone, bladder troubles, anaemia, 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 be 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 Ixxly, 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 the chief cause of most of the disorders from which we suffer. A. The work done by the liver i:? 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 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 enrichment. Th© iiver 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 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 lie 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 Cur© was proved to possess the required properties in the fullest degree. War. ner's Safe Cure lias a marvellous stimulating and healing effect upon both the kidneys and liver, and by restoring those vital organs to health and activity it necessarily cures till disorders due to the retention in the blood of urinary and biliary poisons, such as rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, blood disorders, amentia, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice, gravel, none, bladder troubles, general debility, and sick headache. Even Height's disease, probably th'i 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.