IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 32

IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

By "Youth."

Did tho good old times, which we sooften hear the praises \of from our elderly' relatives and friends, ever really exist? Perhaps the judgment of these enthusiasts i is obscured by the glamour always lent t>y. distance. Perhaps, too. their pulse 6 are stf quickened by recollections of their early youth, when the world was new to them and . all things seemed good, that they forget all but ths roseate streaks and omit; to remember the shadows. To us who lead descriptions of the kind of life endured by people, not only in Australasia, but in the Old World fifty or seventy years ago, it seems incredible thafc anyone can call those tjmes "good," 6O void were they of comforts which we now Icok upon as necessities. Fancy, for instance, getting up on a- cold morning and fumbling about with flint, steel, and tinder before a firo could bo started. Why, the very thought makes one's spine creep! Of the use of steam people knew but little, and electricity was merely a toy of tho chemist. The useful applications of science, which are now so common that we take them for granted, were unknown. Medical and surgical treatments, instead of ' being as now reduced to sciences, were then largely empirical. Even at the present day such complaints as rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, blood disorders, anemia, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice, sick head* ache, general debility, gravel, stone end bladder troubles are occasionally treated as specific diseases instead of as disorders caused, by -the retention in the system of urio acid and other urinary and biliary poisons which would have been duly removed from the body by natural channels if ths kidneys and liver bad been acting actively- and efficiently. The- kidneys of the average person filter | and extract from the blood about .three pints. of urine every dty. In. this quantity of urine should be dissolved about an onnca of urea, 10 or 12 grains* in weight of urio acid, and other animal and mineral matter varying from, a third of an ounce to, nearly an ounce. If ' the ' are workiny freely and healthily all this 6olid matter leaves the body dissolved in tho urine", but if, through weakness or disease, the kidney* are unable to do their work properly, a quantity of these urinary substances re; mains in the blood and Sons through the veins, contaminating the whole system. Then we suffer from some form urio poisoning, such as Rheumatism, Gout. Lumbago, Backache, Sciatica, Persistent Headache, Neuralgia, Gravel, Stone," ond Bladder Troubles. A simple test to make as to whether the kidneys are healthy is tc place some urine, passed the first tWin the morning, in a covered 'glass, ar it stand until next morning. If it is . cloudy, bhowe a sediment like brickdusfc, is of an unnatural colour, or has particles floating about in it, the kidneys are -weak or diseased, and steps muse immediately b» taken to restore their vigour, or Bright* Disease. Diabetes, or sonic of the ' many manifestations of uric poisoning will -<*->'tr. The Liver i 3 an automatic chemical . tory. Jn the liver various substances *: actually made from the blood. Two cr three pounds of bilo are thus made by tho liver "very day. The liver fcukes fiugar from tho blood, "converts it into another form, and stores it up so as to be able to again supply it to the blood as the Jatter may rcquiro enrichment. The liver changes uric acid, which is insoluble, into urea, which is completely 6oluble, and the liver also deals with the blood corpuscles which • have livod their life and are useful no ' longer. When the liver is inactive or diseased we suffer from some form of bi?iary poisoning, such as Indigestion, Biliousness. Anaemia, Jaundice, Sick Beadache, General Debility, and Blood Disorders. . • So intimate is the relation between the work done by the kidneys and that done by the liver that where there is any failure on the part of tho kidneys the liver becomes affected in sympathy, and vice versa. It was the realisation of rl<e importance of this close union of the labour of these vital organs which resulted in the discovery of the medicine how known throughout the world as Warner's Safe Cure. Certain medical men, knowing what a boon it would be to humanity if .some medicine could be found which would act specifically on both the kidneys ' and liver, devoted themselves to an exhaustive search for such a medium, and tlieir devotion was eventually rewarded by their euccess in compounding a medicine which possesses the required quality in the fullest ' degree. Warner's .Safe Cure exhibits * marvellous healing action in all cases of functional or chronic disease of the kidneys and liver, and restoring them, as it is able to do, to health and activity, it of necessity oures all complaints due to the retention in the system of urinary and biliary poisons. A vigorous action of the kidneys and liver naturally eliminates the poisons, ard troubles due to the presence oi tho poisons cease. Cures effected by Warner's Saf« Cure are permanent, simply because they, are natural. At Adelaide on the Bth inst. John Jom> son was sent to gaol for four years oaf three charges of houaebre&king. He wat one of a gang who watched inmates leaving their houses, and then broke in through" the windows and stole jewellery. , A Chmtohurch land and estate agent told a Timaru Herald representative on. Thursday that if he had 100 houses on his hands he could let them in a week. Tho demand for houses of four and five rooms, and with rents up to 17s a week, is excet* sir* at present in the city named.