THE LIVER'S WORK.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10042, 9 January 1909, Page 4

THE LIVER'S WORK.

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By "Regulator." 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 manner that the composition of the blood when it leaves the liver is very much changed, a sort of secondary digestion having taken plncp in the liver. Bile has been B. ;:c.:f-irtured out of the blcod; uric acid, which is practically insoluble, has hevit converted into urea, which 13 completely soluble. A substance called glycogen has been made from the sugar in the blood and stored in the iirer for future use, and various other transformations have taken place. The liver a!sa removes from tb<? 'jtco-l red corpuscles whioh are wo :i oilt, and are of no further utility. The Itver makes and extracts from the two or three pounds of bile •very day. The bile ic= delivered into the intestines, and acts as a natural cathartic, besides assisting in the digestion of fatty food and retarding the ileo-ivapofitioa of such food as it pas*<* aiong the intestines. The glycogen formed is retained in the liver, and is again converted into sugar, whkh is supplied to the blood gradually, ind in such qjontity as maj be net«sfcary for the blood's enrichment. No#, if the liver fails to t'o its work thoroaghly, it follows that the blood, instead of having its substance dealt with and cleansed in the manner described. is carried by the veins to everyport of the body in a condition which fa inimical to the welfare of the body. In 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, sick headache, general debility, anaemia an-J j*nndice. If the liver properly performs its fauctions, the blood distributed is pure, and nourishes the nerves, instead of being laden with poisons which irritate the whole nervous system, and give rise to the disorders named. " A wonderful remedy in cases of di?Mte or inactivity of the liver is found m Warner's Safe Cure, which for thirty years has proved its efficacy continuously, even when treatment by all other means had failed. Sufferer from a disordered liver should lose no lima In availing themselves of the relief to be obtained from this valuable specific. Tti addition to the regular 5s and ifa 9d bottles of Warner's Safe Cure. & concentrated form of the medicine fa now issued at 2s 6d per bcttle. Warner's Safe Cure (Concentrated) is 2iot compounded with alcohol, ana contains the eame number of doses OS the 5s bottle cf Warner's Safe Cure. H. H. Warsfr «id Co-, Limited, Melbourne, Vic.