IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12633, 21 October 1905, Page 7

IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

(By "Youth.") Did the good old times, which we so often hear the praises of from our elderly relatives and friends, every really exist ? Perhaps the judgment of these enthusiasts js obscured by the glamour always lent by distance. Perhaps, too, their pukes are so quickened by recollections of their early youth, when the world was new to them and all things seemed good, that they forget all but the roseate streaks and omit to remember the shadows. To us, who read descriptions of the kind of life endured by people, not only in Australasia., but in the old world, fifty or seventy years ago, it seems incredible that anyone can call those times "good," so void were they of comforts which we now look upon as necessities. Fancy, for instance, getting upon a cold morning and fumbling about with flint, steel, and tinder before a fire could be started. \Vhy7 the very thought makes one's spine creep! Of the use of steam people knew but little, and electricity was merely a toy of the chemist. The useful applications of science, which are now so common that we take them for granted, were unknown.* . Medical and surgical treatment, instead of being as now reduced to sciences, "were then largely empirical. Even at the present day such complaints as rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, blood disorders, anaemia, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache, general debility, gravel, stone and bladder troubles are occasionally treated as specific diseases instead of as disorders caused by the retention in the system of uric acid and other urinary and biliary poisons which would have been duly removed from the body by natural channels if the kidneys and liver had been acting actively and efficiently. 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 or 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 remain in the blood and flows through the veins contaminating the whole fgystem."% Then we suffer from 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 *re healthy is to place some urine, passed fch first thing in the morning, in a covered glass, and let it stand until next morning. 14 it is then cloudy, shows a sediment like brick-dust, is of an unnatural colour, or has particles floating about in it, the kidneys are weak or diseased, and 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 actually 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 urea, which is completely 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 we suffer from some form of biliary poisoning, such as Indigestion, Biliousness, Anaemia, Jaftindice, 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 anfl vice yersa. ,It was the realisation of the importance of this close, union of the labour D&i&ese vital organs Vhic&resulled-ln'the • flisebvery 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 would act specifically oil both the kidneys met liver, devoted" themselves to an e»v laustive search for such' a. medium, and' ;heir devotion was eventually rewarded b^ /heir success in compounding a medicine - mrhicb. possesses the required quality in the idlest degree. Warner's Safe Cure exu'bits a marvellous healing action in all: ;ases of functional or chronic disease of he kidneys and liver, and restoring them, is it is able to do, to health and activity, fc of necessity cures all complaints due to ;he retention in the system of urinary >nd biliary poisons. A vigorous action of he. kidneys and liver naturally eliminates he poisons, and troubles due to the presjnce of the poisons cease. Cures effected >y Warner's Bafe Cure jire permanent, impr£ because they are natural.