THE GOSPEL OF HEREDITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3917, 19 September 1891, Page 3

THE GOSPEL OF HEREDITY.

Whether or not the assumption that maternal or pre-parturitive impressions descend to progeny be trur, we can at least affirm that diseases are hereditary, and often the only legacies parents can bequeath to the frail creatures yet sojourring in the land of the unborn. Sociologists and apologists for crime have endeavoured to show that the thought, however traQsitory of the father to-day, may be the mental food of the child of the next decade. This would appear to be in unison with the fact, that nature never loses anything, even the smallest, and actnally means that the perfeet animal may forget, but the embryo as an embryo never. At any rate this position is too deep and involved tor debate in the limits of the present *\ article, and we have only just now to deal with the gospel of heiedity as applied to diseases of the body. That diseases are hereditary is of course a known fact, aud the location of the disease of the parent in the body of the child is without exception to be found in the blood, the easiest and most congenial domi - cile for its germination. Kidney disease in its aggravated stages and in its initiatory ones, taints blood to a very appreciable extent, f and this taint is transtnissable through future generations. All men, women, and childien, whose parents have died of kidney disease should be particularly careful to prevent this most murderous malady from gaining a hold on their system. Now Warner's Safe Cure is the only known specific for any form of kidnt y disease or diseases arising from kidney derangement. And these are simply legion. In the first place, kidney disorders are terribly insidious in their attacks. The disease may be far advanced without any suspicion on the part of the patient. The sensitised nerves of the organ are very few and so no danger signal is shown by the pains usually heralding disease. Ihe presence of the foe is only known by general symptoms, and these differ materially in different people. The effects usually produced are, albumen in the water, parts of the kidneys called tube casts, the little tile hke drainage tub;.s ef the kidneys destroyed by congestion and inflammation passed in the water, an unusual flow of water especially at - night, or an unusually scanty supply, backache, nausea, dropsical swelling of the ankles, dyspepsia, flatulency, colic, and headache. The disease rarely advances much without sympathetically affecting the liver, and producing irritation of the bladder. Sometimes the uric acid in the blood induces a rheumatic state of which neuralgia and sciatica are the accompaniments. Warner's safe cure and pills are infallible in these cases. Thousands of people in Australasia have attested the truth of this, and the remedy was discovered by its curing aggravated kidney disease in Mr H. Warner.