IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES. 



By " Youth." 



Did the good old times, which wo so ol'toii hear tlie praises of from 

 our elderly relatives and friends, ever really exist? Perhaps the judg- 

 ment of these enthusiasts is obscured by the glamour always lent by dis- 

 tance. Perhaps, too, their pulses are so quickened by recollections of 

 their early youth, when the world was now 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 desoriptions 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 tliat anyone can call those times " good," so void 

 were they of comforts which we now look upon as necessities. Fancy, 

 for instance, getting up on a cold morning and fumbling about with 

 flint, steel and tinder before a fire oould be started. Why, 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, wluch 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 largeJy empirical. Even 

 at the present day such complaints as rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lum- 

 bago, sciatica, blood disorders, ameiiiia, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice, 

 sick headache, general debility, gravel, stone, and bladder troubles ai-e 

 occasionally treated as specific diseases instead of as disorders caused 

 bj? the retention in the system of uric acid and other urinary and 

 biliary poisons which would have been duly removed from the body b.y 

 natural channels if the kidneys and liver had been acting actively and 

 efuciently. 



Tlie kidneys of the average person filter and extract from the blood 

 about tlire>e 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 tlio 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 wo suffer from some form of uric poisnning, 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 healtliy is to place some urine, passed the first 

 thing in the morning, in a. covered glass, and let it stand until next 

 morning. If it is then cloudy, shows a sedinioiit like brick-dust, is of 

 an unnatural colour, or has pa.rticles floatiim about in it, the kidneys 

 are weak or diseased, and steps mu.st inimediatolj' be taken to restore 

 their vigour, or Bright's Disease, Diabetes, or some of the many mani- 

 festations of uric poisoning will result. 



The Liver is an automatic chemical laboratory. In the liver various 

 iubstances are actuall.v made from the blood. Two or three pounds of 

 bile are thii.s 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 enrich- 

 ment. 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 drseased we suffer from some form of biliary poisoning, such 

 a,s Indigestion, Biliousness. Ansemia, Jaundice, Sick Headache. General 

 Debility, and Blood Disorders. 



So intimat<> 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 

 f 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 these 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 oould be found which would 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 com- 

 pounding a medicine which possesses the required quality in the fullest 

 degree. Warner's Safe Cure exhibits a marvellous 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 presence of the poisons 

 cease. Cures effected by Warner's Safe Cure are permanent, simply 

 because they are natural. 



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