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CHRONIC DISEASES
of the
LIVER, BLOOD AND LUNGS.
THEIR TRUE NATURE RATIONAL TREATMENT.
AND POSITIVE CURE.

By R. V. PIERCE, M. D.,
Author of the "People's Common Sense Medical Adviser" (over 900
Pages, nearly 300 Illustrations) and Founder of the World's Dis-
pensary and Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., with branch at
Great Russell Street Building, London, England.

NEW HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED.

The writer desires to preface the consideration of the diseases
mentioned at the head of this article by saying that the truthfulness
of the new and common-sense theories which he is about to advance
has been confirmed by a vast experience, embracing the success-
ful treatment of thousands of cases at the largest private sanita-
rium in the world, and he therefore promulgates his views without
fear of thier being successully controverted. He has discovered
that to a congested, torpid and diseased liver can be traced many
diseases of diverse symptoms, and affecting various organs. Many
of these diseases are usually treated as if primary affections, both
physician and patient being doomed to disappointment in an utter
lack of favorable results; for to treat a disease successfully we
must have a clear conception of its true nature.
LIVER DISEASE. - The liver is the largest gland in the human
system. It is the great purifying organ of the system, and has very
appropriately been termed the "housekeeper" of our health. I
have observed in the dissecting room, and also in the making post-
mortem examinations of the bodies of those who have died of dif-
ferent diseases, that in a large proportion of cases the liver has
given evidence of having at some time been diseased. Liver affec-
tions are equally prevalent in beasts. Every butcher knows that
the liver of cattle , sheep, and swine, are ten times as frequently
diseased as any other organ. The importance of the liver as a
blood-purifying and excretory organ cannot be overestimated.
The foul and morbid matter absorbed from the various tissues
and taken into the blood is absorbed therefrom by a healthy liver
and converted into bile. When the liver became torpid or con-
gested, it fails to estimate this vast amount of noxious substance,
which, therefore, remains to poison the blood and be conveyed to
every part part of the system. Nature tries to work off this poison
through other channels and organs - the lungs, skin, etc. - but these
organs become overtaxed in performing this labor, in addition to
their natural functions, and cannot long withstand the pressure,
but become variously diseased.

The following are Diseases caused by
Faulty Action or Torpor of the Liver :

HEART DISEASE. - The blood surcharged with thr daily accu-
mulated excess of bile unduly stimulates the nerves of the heart,
and if this cause be long continued, it produces chronic irritation,
paipitation, or undue excitement, and morbid nutrition of that
organ, developing many forms of heart disease.
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