URIC ACID: THE CAUSE OF MANY DISEASES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12546, 8 July 1905, Page 7

URIC ACID: THE CAUSE OF MANY DISEASES.

(By "Escu.")

The health of man is influenced to a very great extent by the condition of the kidneys. Any disease of the kidneys, or interference with their action, affects the whole system, because the purity of the blood is dependent upon the proper extraction from it of certain specific poisons, which it is the duty of the kidneys to remove. The kidneys are situated in the small of the back, one on each side of the spine. Human kidneys are similar in shape to those of a sheep, but are somewhat larger. They are encased in fat, and are supplied with arteries which convey blood to them from the heart. By a process akin to filtering, the kidneys take any excess of water from the blood, and they also extract from the blood various waste poisons with which it becomes laden in its journey through the veins.

When a person is in good health these waste poisons are dissolved in the water taken from the blood by the kidneys, and the solution is passed through narrow passages leading from each kidney into the bladder, and is thence expelled from the body. This solution is known as urine* Some of the poisons contained in urine are animal matter, such as urea and uric acid; others are mineral mattor, being salts of lime, magnesia, potash, and soda.

Unless the kidneys do their work thoroughly the waste matter is incompletely extracted from the blood, and becomes actively poisonous, causing us to suffer from various disorders which cannot be cured until the. kidneys are restored to health and activity. After the blood is filtered and purified by the kidneys it enters the veins, and is in due time returned to the heart, having in the meanwhile traversed the body and taken up a fresh supply of waste matter. The heart again sends the blood to the kidneys, which once more filter it and extract the impurities. This process goes on without ceasing day or night. The kidneys of the average man filter and extract from the blood about three pints of urine in twenty-four hours. In this quantity of urine are dissolved about an ounce of urea and ten or twelve grains (in weight) of uric acid, together with other animal and mineral matter, varying from a third of an ounce to nearly an ounce. The blood in the course of its circulation carries nourishment, derived from the food we eat, and oxygen to every part of the tissues of the body, and receives from the tissues matter which they have consumed, and for which they have no further use. This waste matter it is the duty of, the skin, lungs, and kidneys to throw off and get rid of. In the form of carbonic acid, the lungs throw off the equivalent of eight ounces of pure charcoal every twenty-four hours, and the kidneys do their share by eliminating urea, uric acid, etc., as described.

The principal disorders directly attributed to failure of the kidneys to perform their allotted task are Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, Sciatica, Persistent Headache, Neuralgia, Anaemia, Gravel; Stone, and Bladder Troubles. When the kidneys are properly doing their work none of the complaints mentioned can exist, because the causative poisona are then duly removed in a natural manner. The '6nTf'f~i jsmedy known to science which is ame to establish a regular and healthy action of the kidneys is Warner's Safe Cure. This remarkable medicine is the outcome of years of research, and has been in use throughout the world for more than a quarter of a century. It i 3 the only known medicine which; has the power to expel uric acid fromthe system, and it owes this po%ver simply to its ability to restore worn, weak, or diseased kidneys to their na tural vigour. Nature does the rest. Thousands suffer from kidney disease and do not know it. The commonest first symptom is pain in the back. A simple test to make as to the condition of the kidneys is to place some urine, passed the first thing. in the morning, in a covered glass, and let it stand until the next morning. If it is then cloudy, or there- is a brick-dust like sediment, or if particles float about in it, then the kidneys are not healthy, and no time should be lost in adopting remedial measures or Bright's Disease or some serious illness will be the result.

Remember that Warner's Safe Cure will in all cases restore the kidneys to health, and will consequently cure—and permanently cure—all diseases arising from their feeble condition and the retention of uric acid in the system.

A treatise containing a full description of the curative action of Warner's Safe Cure, and many accounts of cases cured, will be sent free on application to H. H. Warner and Co., Limited. Australasian Branch, Melbourne.