Facts About Consumption.

Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 9

Facts About Consumption.

The Melbourne Age says : — " Hayter's figures show that consumption caused 1384 deaths in J 1885, being 25 more than 1884, and 172 more J than in 1883, and that during that time it has killed more than 13 to every 10,000 of the population. This is almost as large a proportion I as obtains in Great Britain, and ib shows that climatic conditions have not so much to do with the disease as is popularly supposed, and that .it is just as difficult to stamp it. out in the soft lonian weather of these southern lands as it is in the fog-charged atmosphere of London, where, according to the sarcasm of the Frenchman, a fine day only differs from a murky one as looking up a chimney differs from looking down one." Now, then, we are prepared to show that over half the cases of consumption are really nothing but the effect of kidney poison, working in the substance of the lung. Read a simple illustration. Dip the tip end of your finger in a strong acid. Soon the flesh will be burned away, and then will follow a festering sore. Wash this sore every minute of every hour of the day (as the kidney poisoned blood does the lungs) with even the mildest sort of an acid, and in a short time it will eat away and eventually rot off the entire hand and arm. Precisely this condition of things exists in the lungs. Kidney poisou is called uric acid, of which there is formed in the body every day enough to kill two men if taken in a single dose. A tenderness developes, either because of hereditary lung weakness, or because of the taking of a violent cold. The kidney acid iin- I mediately attacks this, the weakest point of the system, and it soon becomes inflamed, and the person worries jus I a little about it. After a whilo he goes to his doctor, who puts him on cod liver oil to ke«p up his strength, which night sweats and constantly-increasing cough has impaired. Bub the kidney poison is doing its work every niiuute, every hour, every day and night, and by-aud-bye one lung is either solid with pus, or has been entirely coughed out. Then comes another of many hemorrhages, and soon our friend is very pale, bre ithes ve r y short, gives forth a glassy stare from the eye, and, protesting every day that he " feels stronger, and will soon be about again " ; he suddenly loses breath, and is gone. After death, examination discloses the fact that the kidney poison, the terrible uric acid, has done its work far too well, for it has rotted and completely eaten up the substance of each lung. What is the conclusion ? No person who has reason to fear consumption, either by inheritance or acquirement, should hesitate for a single hour as to his course of action. It is impossible to effect a cure of consumption, or any well-seated lung disease, if the blood is corrupted with the kidney poison, or uric acid. It is, however, possible, and has been done in thousands of cases, to prevent and cure fatal lung troubles, coughp, fevers, pneumonia, and consumption by ridding the blood of all its kidney poison or uric acid. It is this wonderful and exclusive power of Warner's safe cure that has given new hope and new life to so many, many thousands who who had evidently been selected to fill a consumptive's grave, and would have been there today but for the victory they won over their disease — not by their doctor's cod liver oil doses, but by that wonderful remedy, Warner's safe cure. To all who fear death " In consumption's ghastly form," we come with the assurance that if your lungs are wasting away under the influence of the dreadful uric acid, our Warner's safe cure, by neutralising and removing this acid as fast as it is formed, will carry it out through nature's channels, and thereby relieve the weakened lungs. It is with a deal of comfort and satisfaction that we make this statement to the world of consumptives. We do not profess to cure advanced consumption by Warner's safe cure, but | we do say that all forms of lung irritation and inflamation caused by kidney acid (and such forms include consumption, phthisis, pneumonia, lung fever, &c.) can be prevented, and, if taken in time, cured by generous use of Warner's safe cure, and our position is verified by the personal experience of thousands of sufferers. You, man or woman, threatened with consumption, try this philosophical and successful treatment. It can do you no harm. It may save your life.

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