NEWSPAPER CRITICISM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3219, 1 June 1889, Page 3

NEWSPAPER CRITICISM.

It is a privilege every nowspaper #erves io itself to criticise, adverseif needs be, for the public's beuofit, anything in whioh the public is deeply interested. It is the ciißtom of H. H. Warner ■ & Co., proprietors of the renowned "Safe Cure," to flood *ho country, and especially the post bfibas, with medical phamplets. Tbo writer has taken the liborty to examino ono of these marvellous little books, and finds food tor criticism, but before indulging in it, will give our readers some quotations therefrom, from the highest medical authorities, which we believe worthy of consideration, Under the head of " No Distinctive Symptoms Apparent," wo find: First—More adults aro carried off in this country by chronic kidney disease than by any other ono malady except consumption—Thompson. Second—Deaths from such diseases are increasing at tlio rate of 250 per ■ cont, a decade.—Edwards. Jf~ Third.—Bright'a disease has no r symptoms of its own, and may long Must without the knowledge of the or practitioner, as no pain will be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity.—Boborts. Fourth,—ln. the fatal cases-and most cases have hitherto been fatal —the symptoms of diseased kidneys will first appear in extremely different organs of tlio body as stated above.— Thompson. Fifth,—Only when thodiseaso has reached its final and fatal stages may the usual symptoms of albumen aud tube casts appear in the water and will great pain rack the diseased t organs,—Thompson, B tJixth—Bright'a disease, which B - usually has three stages of developi ment, is a universal disease in every country.—Kobovt and Edwards. h. Thompson is authority for saying that more adults are oarried off in this country by kidney disease than anyothermaladyexceptconsumption. Under Warner's •' Safe C'uro" article on consumption, we find a paragraph olaiming to bo a quotation from a publication issued by Brompton Hospital for Consumptives, London, . England,' which states that 52 per Jfeat, of the patients of that institution have unsuspected kidney Dr Herman Brebnier, an eminent German authority, also 6ays that Consumption is always due to deficient nutrition of the lungs, besause of bad blood. Medical science. can no longer dispute tho fact that tlio kidneys are the principal blood purifying organs of the human system, and if they are diseased and thus fail to expel tho urio acid poison, or the waste matter of the blood, as tho blood passes through theso two great organs, tho " Safe Cure" claim is correct, and the reasoning of its proprietor holds good. Thero is no doubt but that in too many instauces medical practitioners dootor for symptoms, instead' of striking at the root of the disease, iand under this form of treatment many patients die. We cannot, however, see the necessity of continually flooding the country with these advertising medical books, whon their story once well . told is onough for the time being. People, as a rule now-a-days, go to IWieir newspaper for information, and believe such truths as we have' instanced could ho proclaimed therein moro advantageously to the public, and much more beneficially to the . proprietors.