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Show t, 124, Waatern Nawapapar Union.) ; ; BRIGHTS DISEASE ' ' : ' ' ' ' , f ' 'M' KAUi.Y one hundred : years ago, ' so .EngllHli ,. doctor,, JUchurd lirlglit, wrote fl paper for a niedlcal . Journul, In which lie .described certain cer-tain symptoms which lie had . found were associated with definite changes In the kidneys. Since 1827, this condition con-dition lius been known as Bright'! dltteuse. . Bright found that, In all cases of III la disease, both the kidneys were affected. They were small and hard, the part of the kidney which does the work of excreting the urine from the hlcKid was much smaller than It should he and the kidney whs lurgely made ' up of tough srnr tissue, showing that the kidneys hud for years been subject sub-ject to prolonged Irritation. Along with this change In the kidneys kid-neys are changes In other organs. ...I'lm' arteries become hard and thick; the heart, which has to force the blood through these stiff and narrowed nar-rowed tubes, hits become enlarged, cHpeclully, the left side, which pumps flitt liitud throughout the body.- This produces a hUh blood pressure. The symptoms cuuscd by this condition con-dition nre nut (Hidden nnd marked, but come on so slowly as to be hardly noticeable. The peculiar thing about them is that they apparently have nothing to do with the kidneys. A popular belief, largely due to patent medicine advertisements, is unit pain in the hack Is an early symptom of ltrlght's disease. Tbls Is not true. Moxt people who think that they have Krlght's (Unease, have no kidney dls-eaHU dls-eaHU at all. Many people who do not suspect It, have it, or are In the early stages of It. Kven tin advanced case may be entirely unconscious of it and i may possess grout menial and physical phys-ical ability. It la this very Insidious-neps Insidious-neps that makes IJrlght's disease such a danger to middle age. How does this disease show ItselfT In a general feeling of poor health. The patient is tired, sleeps poorly, j bus frequent headaches and digestive disturbances. The tongue Is coated. The patient baa to get up, sometimes several times a night to empty the bladder. The amount of urine la Increased In-creased and tliere Is constant thirst. Attacks of bronchitis are common and the patient suffers from breathless-ness, breathless-ness, especially after walking briskly or .climbing gtalra. There 1b Often trouble with ttw eyea ; The skin Is dry j and ) the perspiration senrity. .Sometimes the ankles will swell or the skin under eyes will puff up. . These symptoms, especially In men and women of middle age, are danger signals and sliouhi call for an Immediate Imme-diate and careful physical examination. examina-tion. Don't wait for them to become worse. Kind out now what the trouble trou-ble Is and how far it has gone. |