QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13544, 17 March 1906, Page 3

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Q, I have been feeling very poorly lately, and have just been told by my doctor that I am suffering from uric poisoning. I shall bo glad if you will tell me just what uric poisoning moans. 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. Tho 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 bjood of the average individual about three pints of tirino 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 tho blood is poisonous. Tho threo 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 a third of an ounce to nearly an ounce. Q. Then I am to understand that the substances you 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 largo question. Many complaints which are commonly called diseases are not actually diseases in themselves. For instance, Rheumatism, Gout. Neuralgia. Lumbago, Sciatica, Gravel, Stono and Bladder Troubles aro all caused by uric poison. Indigestion, Aniemia, Persistent Headache, and General Debility aro often solely due to tho saino cause. In fact, if th« 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, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica, Gravel, Stone, Bladder Troubles, Anaemia. Debility. Persistent Headache, or Indigestion the scientific method of effecting a euro would be to directly treat the pafjfcnt 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 bo restored to health and activity, so that they may ho enabled to remove the daily production of poisons m 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 Wo suffer. A. The work done by tho 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 aro actually made from tho blood. Two or three pounds of bile are thus made every day. Tho liver takes the sugar from the blood, converts it info another form, and stores it un 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 solublo, and the liver also deals with the blood corpuscles which have lived their lifo and are useful no longer.

Q. As (lie fund ions of tho kidneys and liver are so intimately related, I "gather .that if there is reason to susnect that either organ is not doing its work efficiently, a curative agent should be employed which would act equally upon the kidneys and Jiver?

A. Yes, that is the ease, 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 m»dicine which won

beneficially affect alike tho kidneys am liver, they could contr.l most of tlie com

moil disorders, devoted themselves to the search for such a remedy. After many disappointments I heir efforts wre rewarded, and a medicine now known as Warner's Safe Cure was proved to possess the returned prouevties in the fullest, degree. Warner's Safe Cure has a marvellously Stimulating and healing effect upon both the kidneys and 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 as Rheumatism. Gout, NeuLumbago, Sciatica, Blood Disorders, 'Auremia, Indigestion. Biliousness, Jaundice. Oravel, Stone. Bladder Troubles. General Debility, and Rick Headache. Even Bright's Disease, probably the most, fatal of all disease;;, yields to treatment by Warner's Safe Cure. Cures effected by Warner's Safe Cure are permanent; simply because they are natural.