THE GOSPEL OF HEREDITY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2256, 19 September 1891, Page 1

THE GOSPEL OF HEREDITY.

Whether or not the assumption that maternal or pre-parturitive impressions descend to progeny be true we can at least affirm that diseases are hereditary, and often the only legacies parents can bequeath to the frail creatures yet sojourning in the land of the unborn. Sociologists and apologists for crime have endeavoured to show that the thought, however transitory of the father to-day, may be the mental food of the child of the next decade. This would appear to be in unison with the fact that nature never loses anything, even -the smallest, and actually means that the perfect animal may forget, but the embryo as an embryo never. At any rate this position is too deep and involved for debate in the limits of the present article, and we have only just now to deal with the gospel of heredity as applied to the diseases of the body. That diseases are hereditary is of course a known fact, and the location of the disease of the parent in the body of the child is without exception to be found in the blood, the easiest and most congenial domicile for its germination. Kidney disease in its aggravated stages, and sometimes in its initiatory ones, taints the blood to a very appreciable extent, .and this taint is transmissable through future generations. All men, women, and children, whose parents have died of kidney disease should be particularly careful to prevent this most murderous malady from gaining a hold on their system. Now Warner's Safe Cure is the only known specific for any form of kidney disease or diseases arising from kidney derangement. And these are simply legion. In the first place, kidney disorders are terribly insidious in their attacks. The disease may be far advanced without any suspicion on the part of the patient. The sensitised nerves of the organs are very few and so no danger signal is shown by the pains usually heralding disease. The presence of the foe is only known by general and these differ materially in different people. The effects usually produced are, albumen in the water, parts of the kidneys called tube casts, the little tile-like drainage tubes of.the kidneys destroyed by congestion and inflammation passed in the water, an unusual flow of water, especially at night, or an unusually scanty supply, backache, nausea, dropsical swelling of the ankles, dyspepsia, flatulency, colic, and headache. The disease rarely advances much without sympathetically affecting the liver, and producing irritation of the bladder. Sometimes, the, urio acid in the blood induces a rejhumatic state of which nguralgia and soiatica are the accompaniments. Warner's safe cure and pills are infallible in these cases. Thousands, of people in Australasia have attested the truth of this, and the remedy was discovered by its curing aggravated kidney disease in Mr. H, H. Warner,