Do the kidneys grow old?

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Senile Kidneys

Q. Do the kidneys grow old?

A. ''A man is as old as his arteries," said a famous French physician. It may be said with equal truth that a man is as old as his kidneys. Young kidneys are able to do many times the work normally required of them. As age ad­vances, the kidneys deteriorate as the result of their constant exposure to the influence of the poisons which they remove from the body. When the capacity of the kidneys is reduced to less than one-third the normal, life is soon ended through the accumulation in the blood and tissues of the poisons which it is the duty of the kidneys to remove.

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