HEALTH NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 863, 20 September 1906, Page 22

HEALTH NOTES.

(By

W. S. C.)

In order that we may keep the body in the best condition to withstand the. daily Stress and strain of mental and physical wear and tear, it is essential for us all to understand something of the various processes of nature which ensure the maintenance of life. Most people do not realise that it is as necessary to life that th- body should waste away as it is that its substance should constantly be replaced by a sufficient supply of fresh air, water and food. The wasting of the body is accomplished by the production of a cerlain quantity of used-up material, and inis used-up or dead material must be thrown off from the body by natural means without undue delay, for if any of it is suffered to remain in ‘ the system it becomes actively poisonous, and must cause disease or death.

Upon the skin, lungs, kidneys and liver rests the main responsibiltiy of extracting poisonous, matter from the blood and removing it from the system. The moment one of those organs, through weakness or disease, becomes incapable of performing its work efficiently, thdt moment we begin to suffer from some illness, and if steps are not taken to restore to health and activity the organ at fault, death from some form of blood poisoning must ensue.

The skin, as a general thing, needs but regular treatment with good soap and water, and it will do its duty perfectly and without complaint. The lungs are vigorous organs, and we are soon made aw’are of any interference with their action by a fit of coughing or a choking sensation. It is the importance of looking well, after the health of the kidneys and liver which we especially desire to impress upon our readers. These organs are the most delicate of all those engaged l in extracting and removing from the blood the waste poisons as fast as they are produced in the body. Unless the kidneys and liver are in a fit state to thoroughly perform their task, the particular poisons, which it is their duty to make and extract, wil remain in the system, and as the kidneys and liver are often unable to tell us directly, by a sensation of pain, thar there is anything the matter with them, we are probably unaware of their failure until we begin to suffer from Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Backache, Sciatica, Blood Disorders, Anaemia, Indigestion, Biliousness, Jaundice, Sick Headache, General Debility, Gravel, Stone and Bladder Troubles. All these complaints are caused by the presence in the body of urinary and biliary poisons, which, it the kidneys and liver were acting efficiently, would have been duly removed, and we should have been spared from suffering. The kidneys of the average person filter and extract from the blood about three pints of urine every day. In this quantity of urine should be dissolved about an ounce of urea, ten to 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 kidneys are unable to do their work properly a quantity of these urinary substances remains in the blood and flows through the veins, contaminating the whole system. Then we suffer fi cm some form of uric poisoning such as Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, Backache, Sciatica, Persistent Headache, Neuralgia, Gravel, Stone and Bladder Troubles. A simple test to make as to whether the kidneys are healthy is to place some urine, passed the first thing in the morning, in a covered glass, and let it

stand untiln ext morning. If it is then cloudy, shows a sediment like brick dust, is of an unnatural colour, 01 has particles floating about L. it the kidneys are weak or diseased, ana steps must immediately be taken to restore their vigour, or Bright’s Disease, Diabetes or some of the many manifestations of uric poisoning will result. The liver is an automatic chemical laboratory. In the liver various, substances are actualy made from the blood. Two or three pounds of bile are,thus made by the liver every day. The liver takes sugar from the 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 liver changes uric acid, which is insoluble, into irea which is completly soluble, and the liver also deals with the blood corpuscles which have lived their life, and are useful no longer. When the liver, is inactive or diseased wc suffer from some form of biliary p< is-cnirg such as . Indigestion, Biliousness,. Anaemia j' 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 is any failure on the part of the kidneys the liver becomes affected in sympathy, and vice versa. It was the realisation of the importance of this close union of the labour of those vital organs which resulted in the discovery of the medicine now known throughout the world as Warner’s Safe Cure. Certain medical men,, knowing what a boon it would be to humanity if some medicine could be found which act specifically on both the kidneys and liver,, devoted themselves to an exhaustive search for such a medium, and their devotion was eventually rewarded by their success in compounding a medicine which p ssesses the required quality in the fullest degree. Warner’s Safe Cure exhibits a marvelous healing action in all cases of functional or chronic disease of the kidneys and liver, and restoring them, as it is able to do,, to health and activity, it, of 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 poisons cease. Cures effected by Warner’s Safe Cure are permanent simply because they are natural.