WHY IT IS SO.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2442, 24 December 1892, Page 4

WHY IT IS SO.

Do you ever wonder why there is invariably more sickness prevailing at the change of the seasons just before summer and winter—than at other times of the year 1 You are aware that the Doctors are always busier at those periods; yet you have not probably surmised the reasons, although they are very simple. In the period preceding Summer the amount and nature of the food taken is generally similar to that used in the coldest winter weather, and the quantity of clothing worn is not adapted 1o the increasing temperature — both regimen and covering being unsuitable. During the Autumn, people, by the use of improper viands, by taking ha ty meals, by exposure, and the consumption of immoderate quantities of acid and iced drinks — induce a condition of Gastric or Stomachic Catarrh. When this condition is present the food is imperfectly acted upon by the digestive organs, and the nutrient matter not being in proper form for assimilation, is carried along with the blood to the kidneys, whose province it is to take out of the vital fluid the waste and harmful products —urea and uric acid. This process going on for weeks or possibly months, the overworked kidneys by becoming inflamed or congested—fail to perform their functions, with the result that the deleterious products are retained in the system, to the inevitable corruption of the blood. Dyspepsia with its many well known forms of agony having become established, gives due warning that active measures should be adopted to intercept some approaching more serious malady—it may be rheumatism, gout, diabetes, gravel and gall stones, or the dread Bright’s disease. Warner’s Safa Cure is the required antidote. Here we emphasise the necessity for using that medicine during the present season on account of the threatened epidemic of influenza. It is an undoubted fact that when the kidneys and liver are kept in a healthy and normal condition, the germs of disease cannot find a lodgment in the system, but are promply passed off through the excretions. Warner’s Safe Cure, therefore, may be taken with positive satisfaction, its power to keep these chief organs of the human economy in good working order having become fully demonstrated. The trite saying, “ That an ounce of prevention is ivorth a pound of cure,” has in no casee a more forcible application than in relation to the bodily health.