Human Recklessness.

Otago Witness, Issue 1880, 2 December 1887, Page 10

Human Recklessness.

A singular feature in the make-up of mankind is the recklessness of life, which at times becomes epidemic. Some foolhardy man si ts the example, as did Webb in his attempt to awim the rapids of Niagara Falls, and immediately he has followers the world over who attempts dangerous feats from which no benefit, pecuniary or otherwise, can ensue. But recklessness of life is not confined alone to this class of people. We are all of us daily encountering .a danger of far greater magnitude, which concealment for a time robs of its terrors. Ib is so insidious in its approach, fastening itself with a deadly grip on the body before any palpable evidence is exhibited that the vitality is sapped, our constitutions undermined, and we are made wrecks, physically and mentally, before wo have been alarmed. Wo refer to diseases of the kidneys, those subtle organs placed in our body to purify our blood, and in connection with our bowels, to eliminate all the waste material which the system is daily throwing off. Dr Dawson Williams says urinary diseases are becoming year by year more common, and another eminent authority says that deranged kidney action is the cause of 93 per cent, of all the diseases which afflict mankind. Dr Ralfe makes a still more astonishing statement, to the effect that if the water of people who suffer from general disease was examined, 27 per cent, would be found to contain albumen. This is a startling statement, and confirms the fact that, nearly every disease takes its origin from deraugeruent of the kidneys. That the disease is and has been on the increase since the time of Bright cannot be doubted, but that it has become as -prevalent as these statements lead j us to believe, seems almost impossible, and the assertions njight well be deubted did thoy not come from such high authority. The moral is a plain onf ; , and is simply this : To have uninterrupted health and long life we must keep the kidneys \n such a condition that they can perform t' a c laborious function nature^ designed for thf ; tn. How to do this is a question which for yf we have looked in vain for physicians to ? ,nswer. Their endeavours to discover a medicine which should have a controlling infli 1 .ence to prevent these disastrous results have beenb een fruitless. But there i 3 a remedy, purely ' vegetable, which is almost specific in its power over the kidneys, liver, and urinary organs. This remedy is Warner's safe cure. It has a record with which no other mediciue can compare, and its marvellous power over disease is confirmed by a mass of evidence given daily by the colonial press.

"Then," says a prodigal son to his ■father, " you utterly refuse to give me more money." "Absolutely," says the father. "Well!" says the son, "one thing alone is left for me to do," and he produces a pistol. « Wretched young man," exclaims the horrorstricken parent, "what would you do?" i* Sell my pistol," replies the prodigal.