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DEATH IN HIS FAVORITE ROBE.

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EDWARD HOAG, Charlotte, Mich.

DEATH
IN HIS FAVORITE ROBE.
In a previous article I have shown that the liver
is the great depurating, or blood-cleansing, organ of
the human system. When this reat "housekeeper"
of our health becomes torpid or inactive a vast
amount of noxious poisons accumulate in the blood.
Nature tries to work off and free the system of this poison through
other channels and organs, and largely through the exhalations
thrown off through the lungs in respiration. The blood is in a
measure oxygenated and purified by the lungs, but in this effort and
overwork these organs become irritated, and nervous cough, bron-
chitis, and consumption itself, are the natural results. The tissues
of the lungs being irritated by the bile-poisoned blood circulating
through these most delicately-constructed organs, scrofulous dis-
ease is established. The general health becomes broken down, and
the person feels languid, weak, faint, drowsy, and confused. Pain
in the right side, in the region of the liver, and a sympathic pain in
the shoulders and spine, and through the lungs, is generally experi-
enced. The patient soon has a dry hacking couch - that liver
cough! Minute tubercles are developed in the lungs, and perhaps
exist for months unknown to their victim. Nothing is done to
remove tubercles by the ordinary treatment. Cough is only a
symptom of the disease, yet this only is aimed at. There is no
rational way to cure consumption except to purify the blood.
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