THE LIVER'S WORK.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12475, 27 February 1909, Page 4

THE LIVER'S WORK.

:By "B^ttlator." w,A The liver may /Be described, W -.mi exceedingly complicated ohemioal,-la> boratory. The blood which enters .-theliver through the ■portal veia is loaded with the products of the digestion of J food. Thcfse products the. liver deals . 4 with in snch a manner that the com- : t position o»f the blood when it leaves., j the liver is very much changed, a sort of secondary digestion having taken- ( place in! the liver: Bile has been 1 maamfarjtured out of the blood; urio \ ' acid, w&ich is practically insoluble, <] has "bcfn converted into urea, .wMdh £ ia completely soluble. A, sub.stance called glycogen' has teem ' madel- from' „ the sugar in the blood and storal in i the liv;er for future use, and' various other transformations have taken ■ ■ place. '; The liver also removes from i the blpod^red corpuscles which are. worn «ut, and are of no further util- \ **> ■ ' -■ \ The. liver makes and extracts from the blood two or three pounds of bile everyday. 1 The bile, is delivered into ' the intestines, and acts as a natural : cathartic, besides assisting in the di- . gestion of fatty food and retarding 1 the dect imposition of such food as it c passes along the intestines. - <■ The gi'ycogen formed is - retained, in the liver , and is again ' converted iiato sugar, ivihich is supplied to the. blood gradually, and in such quantity as may be necessary* for the blood's enrichment. ■" „■ Now, if the liver fails to do its-work thoroug lily, it follows that _ie bl«od, instead -flf having its substance dealt with an Id cleansed in the 'manner described, jis carried by the veins to every , part of rthe body in a condition which ' is inimiical to the welfare of the body.' I ;In otb ?r words, the blood is laden ' with biliary poisons, and it is the pre- j ,sence of ■ these biliary/poisons in the j j blood which.-: causes. u§ "lyo suffer from ' ihdigestijcnu, ' ' Jjilioneness, ' side head- '' ache, gemeral debility, anaemia and ■ j 'jaundice. If -.the liver properly per- 1 'forms iis functions, the blood distri- 1 buted is purei, and . nourishes the s nerves, instead- of being laden with s poisons,' >rhich r ii ritate thfe whole ncr- 1 " vous Tsysfiran, su give riste to the die-. ( orders ■named. .;;.. , • . ; ' A wonderful remedy in .oases, of dis- ' ease-orioaetivity of the liv.er is found in TWaraier's Safe CuTe, jvhiah for ] thijty years lias proved its efficacy cooatinuoUsly, even whon treatment by aVI other meaas had failed. ' Sufferers ' f_roin a disordered liver- ahoiild-. lose no, time in availing themselves of the relief to be obtained from tins valuable specific. . . to. addition to the : rcgxdaT -,5s - and^ i _te 9d bottles of . Warner's \Safe Cure.; ; -a concentrated form .of the 'medicine ' is now issued at 2s fd per bottle. ! Warner's Safe-Cure^Gdncentrafed) m 1 ' not compounded with ! . alcohol, .and- ' -contains the.' same number of; doses '• , as the 5s bottle- of "Warner's Safe ■ - Cure. H.H. W&vner and Go-., Limited, ' Melbourne, Vie. ' : . ■ I - ' _^""-HJ~ " I— ' -TTV ?'. _.._ . :