Microscopic Wonders.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4893, 29 December 1888, Page 3

Microscopic Wonders.

One of the loading scientific publications states than many people are now using the microscope to discover the real cause of disease in the system, and to detect adulteration of food and medicines.

This wonderful instrument has saved many a life. A microscopical test shows, for in* stance, the presence of albumen, or the life of (he blood, in certain derangements of the kidneys,but medicine does not tell us how far advanced the derangement is, or whether it shall prove fatal. The microscope, however, gives us this

knowledge •• Bright’s disease, which so many people dread,was not fully known until the microscope revealed its characteristics. It- greatly aids the physician skilled in its use, in determining how far disease has advanced, and it gives a fuller idea of the true structure of the kidney. • _ A noted German scholar recently discovered that by the aid of the microscope, the physician can tell if there is a tumor forming in the system, and if certain appearances are seen in the fluids passed, it is a proof positive that the tumor is to bo a malignant one. If any derangement of the kidneys is deflected by the microscope the physician looks for the development of almost any disease the system is heir to, and any indication of Bright’s disease which has no symptoms of its own and cannot be folly recognised except by the microscope, he looks upon with alarm. This' disease has existed for more than 2000 years. It is only until recently that the microscope has revealed to us its universal prevalence and fatal character. Persons who formerly died of what was called general ' debility, nervous breakdown, dropsy, paralysis, heart disease, rheumatism, apoplexy, etc., are now known to have really died of kidney disease, because, had there been no disorder of the kidneys, the chances are that the effects from which they died would never have existed. As yet neither homeopathist nor allopathis t is prepared with a cure for deranged kidneys, but the world has long since recognised and many medical gentlemen also recognise and prescribe Warner’s safe cure for these derangements, and admit that it is the only specific for the common and advanced forms of kidney disorders. Formerly the true cause, of death was discovered only after death. To-day the microscope shows us, in the water we pass, the dangerous condition of any organ in the body, thus enabling us to treat it promptly, and escape premature death.