the
urates and phosphates remain in solution, but there is only one single
substance known to pathological chemistry that can form a deposit under
these conditions--and that substance is albumen, which, if present in
quantity, is always indicative of serious disease.

The papers are filled with the plausible but unwarranted statements of
the manufacturers of various "kidney cures," who anxiously desire that
every one should be impressed with the idea that all their troubles
arise from kidney disease in order to sell large quantities of their
medicines. In many cases the unfortunate patient is rendered much worse
by the use of remedies that are not suited to his condition, and which
will not cure the real trouble with which he is affected.

Daily we are consulted by persons in whose cases these errors have been
made. In reality, true Bright's disease is not a common affection, and
nine out often individuals who think that they suffer from it, or the
early stages of the trouble, in fact have something more curable. In
some cases it is an affection of the liver, which forces an excretion of
unnatural salts by the kidneys, and thus renders the urine acrid and
irritating, or they may be suffering from some other disease, such as a
deformity or enlargement of certain glands, as the prostate; unnatural
position of the organs, as with women who suffer from weakness, the
uterus pressing forward on the bladder and urethra, and thus showing
every evidence of disease in the urinary canal. It is as common for
persons to suffer from deformity of the urinary canal as from misshapen
limbs, or from noses and ears not of proper size and proportion.

The urinary canal, from the bladder outward, is narrow and delicate. Any
disease or injury therein is liable to result in gradual contraction,
which may be manifested long years after the cause has been forgotten,
or has disappeared. These affections, to the inexperienced, or the
physician who is not particularly alert and cautious in his diagnosis,
are liable to cause error, and he will pronounce a given case Bright's
disease, when in reality there is some simple cause for the irritation
of the urinary canal, and the pains in the kidneys, etc., all of which
frequently result from a slight damming up of the flow of water, and the
prevention of free expulsion from the system of the salts of which the
body is relieved by the kidneys. They cannot work under pressure. When,
from any cause, the