THE LIVER'S WORK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14359, 31 October 1908, Page 7

THE LIVER'S WORK.

By " Regulator.''

The liver may be described a? an exceedingly complicated chemical laboratory. T'lio Wood which rulers the liver through tlii! portal vein is loaded with the products of tho digestion of food. These products tho liver deals with in such a manner that the composition of I he Wood when it leaves the liver is wry much changed. a sort of secondary digestion having taken place in (Iks liver. Bile has been manufactured out of the hlood: uric acid, which is practically insoluble, lias been converted inlo urea, which is completely soluble. A stibstance callPil glycogen has been made from (■lis sugar in tiie blood and stored in the liver for future use, and various other transformations have taken place. The liver also removes from the blood red corpuscles which are worn out and are of no , further utility.

Tho liver makes and extracts from the blood two or three pounds of bile every day. Tho bile is delivered inlo the juteslinos, and acls its a natural cathartic, besides assisting in the digestion of fatty food arnl retarding the decomposition of such food (is it passes along the inlestijies. The glycogen formed is retained in the liver, and is nyain converted into sugar, which itj supplied lo the blcod gradually, 'and in snob quantity as may l:c necessary /or the blood's enrichment.

Now, if the livor fails to do its work thoroughly, it follows that the blood, instead of having its substance dealt with mid cleansed in the manner described, is carried by the veins to every part of the bedv in a condition which is inimical to tho welfare of the Iwdy. In other words, the Wood is laden with biliiiry ooisons. and it is the presence of these biliary poisons in llio blood which (Wises irs to suffer from .indigestion, biliousness, sick headache, general debility, ancemia', and jaundice. If the liver properly performs its funolions tho blood distribute?] is pure, and nourishes the nerves, instead of being laden witilt poisons which irritate tho whole nervous system and give rise to tho disorders named. A wonderful remedy in awes of disease r.r inactivity of liver is foiuid in Warner's Sale Cure, which for 30 years has proved ite efficacy continuously, even when treatment by all other means had, failed. Suifercrs from a disordered liver'should lose no timo in availing themselves of the relief lo bo obtained from this valuaulc specific.

In addition to the regular 5s a.nd Zs 9d l>o(tics of Warner's Safe Cure, a concentrated foisn of the medicine is now issued at 2s 6(1 per bottle. Wa.rr.er's Safe Cure (Concentrated) is not compounded .with alcohol, and contains tfib same number of doses as the 5s bottle of Warner's Safe Cure. H. H. Warner and Co. (Limited), Melbourne, Victoria.