Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-12-23
ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC WoNDER.l

Oh the TX. alter directions oil BA6ON LEI
BIG, the great Physiological Chemist, by
j. H. HOUGHrON, M. d., No. II,
North Eight Street, Philadelphia.
This is truly wonderful rem-
| edy for Indigestion Dyspep-
I STA, Jaundce .Liver Com
| plant, CONSUMPTION
8 Debility, curing
| after Natures
own method
| by Natures
| agent,
! the Castro
JUICE.
HaIfa teaspoon full Of this fluid, infused in water,
will digest or dissolve Five pounds OF
! Roast Beef in about two hours,
out of the stomach
DIGESTION.
INDIGESTION is chiefly performed in the stom-
-EV ach by the aid OF fluid which freely eXudes
from the inner coat of that organ. when i'll state
| Of health, called the Gastric Juice--This fluid is
the great solvent of the food, the Purifying, Pre-
serving and Stimulating Agent of the stomach and
| intestines. Without it there would be no diges
tion-no conversion Of food into blood, and no nu-
| triton OF the body but rather foul torpid pain
! fu and destructive condition Of the whole digestive
| apparatus A weak, half dead, or in ured stomach
produces no good Gastric Juice, and hence the dis
I ease, distress and debility which ensue.
PEPSIN AND RENNET.
Pepsin is the chief element, or great Digesting
PflHclple Oh the GdSll]c JUICE. Al is l0HIa IN great
abundance in the solid parts of the human stomach
after death, and sometimes causes the stomach to
digest itself, eat itself up. 1t is also found in
the stomach Of animals as the OK, call, &c. II is
| the material used by farmers in making cheese,
called Rennet, the effect If which has long been
the special wonder Of the dairy. The curdling OF
milk is the first process Of digestion. Rennet pos
sesses astonishing power The stomach of cali
will curdle nearly one thousand times its own
weight OF milk. Baron Leibig states that, 'sOne
part of Pepsn dissolved in sixty Thousand parts of
water, will digest meat OF other food" Diseased
stornachs produce no good Gastric juice Rennet
or Pepsin. To show that this want may be per-
fectly supplied, quote the following:
SCIENTIFIC Ey4DENCE!
| BARON LEIBIG in his celebrated work on
Animal Chemistry, says: can Artificial Digestive
| Fluid analogous to the Gastric Juice, may be
readily prepared from the mucus membrane of the
stomach Of the calf, in which various articles OF
/ food, meat and eggs will be sotened, changed
and digesed just in the same manner as they would
/ be in the human stomach
/ Dr. PEREIRA, in his famous treatise on Food
and Diet published by Fowler 8. Wells N. York,
page 35, states the same great fact and describes
! the method OF preparation. There are few higher
authorities than Or. Pereira
| Dir. COMBE, in his valuable writings or the
Physiology of Digestion, observes that diminuton
OF the due quantity of the Gastric Juice is prom
inent and al-prevaiiing cause OF Dyspepsia and he
states that distinguished professor Of medicine in
London, who was very much afflicted with this
complaint, finding every thing else TO fail, had re-
course to the Gastric Juice, obtained from the
stomach OF living animals, which proved complete
y successful.
Dir. GRAHAM, author of the famous works on
Vegetable Diet says that it a remarkable fact in
physiology thatthe stomachs of animals macerated in
water impart to the fluid the property OF dissovng
| Ndiious a,.'cies VI ioo, anu vi ehee"hS khu OF
| the natural digestive properties
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