IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3099, 6 August 1913, Page 13

IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

(By “Youth.”) Did the good old time*, which wo so often hear the praise* of from our elderly relatives and friends, ever really exist f Perhaps the judgment of these enthusiast© is obscured by the glamour al-* ways leut by distance. Perhaps, too, their pulses are so quickened by recol* lections of their early youth, when to® world was new to them and all things seemed good, that they forget ail buk the roseate streaks and omit to remember the shadows. To us, who read descriptions of tho kind of life endured by people, no! only in Australasia, but in the old world, fifty or seventy years ago, it seems incredible that anyone can call those times “good,” so void were they of things which w© now look upon as necessities. Fancy, for instance, getting up on a cold morning and fumbling about with a flint, steel, and tinder before a fire could be started. Why, th®> very thought makes one’s spine creep I Of the use of steam people knew but little, and electricity was merely' a toy of the chemist. The useful applications of science, which are now so common that we take them for granted, were unknown. Surgical operations were attended by enormous risk, and medical" comforts and efficient nursing, now so easily obtainable, were almost unpro- • curable. Education was a luxury available only to a small minority of people, and the means of disseminating know- -• ledge and information were restricted. Even in these present days, when it i» so easy for anyone to become enlightened on almost any subject, such complaints as rheumatism, ’gout, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, blood disorders, anaemia, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice. sick headache, general debility, gravel, stone and bladder troubles, ar® apt to be treated as specific disease® instead of as disorders caused, in most cases, by the retention in the system of uric acid and other urinary and biliary, poisons which would have been duly removed from the body by natural channels if the kidneys and liver had beta acting actively and efficiently. The kidneys of tlie average person filter and extract from the blood about three pints of urine every day. In thi» quantity of urine should be dissolved about an ounce of urea, ten or twelve grains in weight of uric acid, and other animal and mineral matter varying from a third of an ounce to nearly an ounce. If the kidneys are working freely and healthily all this solid matter leaves the body dissolved in the urine, but if, through weakness or disease, the kidney® are unable to do their work properly, » quantity of these urinary substances regains in the blood and flows through the, veins contaminating the whole system. Then we suffer from some forn* of uric poisoning, such a* Rheumatism, • Gout, Lumbago. Backache, Sciatica, Persistent Headache, Neuralgia, Gravel," Stone, and Bladder Troubles. Tho Liver is an automatic chemical laboratory. In the liver various substances are actually mad© from theblood. Two or three pounds of bila thus made by the Liver ©very day. The liver takes sugar from th* blood, converts it into another form, and stores it up so as to be able to again supply it to the blood as the latter may require enrichment. The liverchanges uric acid, which is insoluble, into urea, which is completely soluble, and tho liver also deals with the blood* corpuscles which have lived their lif® and are useful no longer. When the liver is inactive or diseased we suffer fiom some form of biliary poisoning, such a® Indigestion, Biliousness, Anaemia, Jaundice, Sick Headache, 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 i® any failure on the part of the kidneys•he liver frequently becomes affected it® sympathy and vice versa. It was therealisation of the importance of this close union of the labour of these vitall- - which resulted in the of the medicine now known throughout! the world as Warner’s Safe Cure. Certain scientists, knowing what a boon ifc" would be to humanity if some medicin® could be found which would act specifically on both tlie kidneys and liver, devoted themselves to an exhaustive search for such a medium, and their devotion was eventually rewarded by their success iacompounding a medicine which possess©® the required quality. This medicine i* now known as Warner's Safe Cure. Warner’s Safe Cur© exhibits a marvellous healing action in all cases of functional! or chronic disease of th© kidneys and* liver, and restoring them, as it is abi®* to do, to health and activity, it ofl necessity cures 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, and troubles due to the presence of the poisons cease. Cure® effected by Warner’s Safe Cure ar® permanent, simply because they ar®, natural. Warner’s Safe Cure is soldi by che/giits and storekeeper* every-, where, Ljth in the original (ss) bottle*,! and in the cheaper (2s 6d) “Con-J, eenlraled." non-alcoholic fomu