Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-10-21
ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC WONDER

STA, Jaundice Liver Com
plant, Constipation
& Debility, curing
after Natures
own method
by Natures
own agent,
the Gastric
JUICE.
Half teaspoon full Of this fluid, infused in water
will digest or dissolve Five pounds Of
Roast Beet in about two hours,
out of the stomach.
DIGESTION.
nIGES1TONi is chiefly performed in the stom.
~ ach by the aid Of fluid which freely exudes
from the inner coat Of that organ, when in 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
full and destructive condition OF the whole digestive
apparatus A weak, half dead, or injured stomach
produces no good Gastric Juice, and hence the dis
ease, distress and debility which ensue.
PEPSIN AND RENNET.
Pepsin is the chief element, or great Digesting
Principle Of the Gastric Juice 1t is found 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, calf &c. 1t is
the material used by farmers in making cheese,
called Rennet the effect Of 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 Pepsin dissolved in sixty thousand parts Of
water, will digest meat or other food" Diseased
stomachs produce no good Gastric Juice, Rennet
or Pepsin. To show that this want may be per.
fectIy SupuIied. we OuOfe the tollOWinu.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE!
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 mncus membrane Of the
stomach of the calf, in which various articles OF
food, as meat, and eggs will be soitened, changed
and dgested just in the same manner as they would
be in the human stomach
DR.. PEREIRA, in his famous treatise Oh .'Food
and Diet" published by Fowler & Wells N. York,
page 80, states the same great fact and describes
the method OF preparation There are few higher
authorities than DR.. Pereira.
DR.. COMBE, in his valuable writings or the
Physiology OF Digestion, observes that diminution
OF the due quantity of.the Gastric Juice is prom
inent and allprevailing 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
course to the Gastric Juice, obtained from the
stomach Of living animals, which proved complete
ly successful
DR.. GRAHAM, author of the famous works on
Vegetable Diet says that it is a remarkable fact in
physiology thatthe somachs of animals macerated in
water impart to the fluid the property OF dissoving
various articles OF food and of efecting kind tof
artificial digestion of them in no wise different from
the natural digestive properties.
DR. SIMON'S great work, the Chemistry of
Man, (Lea 4 Blanchard, Philadelphia 1916. PIP.
32l-2) says "Ihe discovery Of Pepsin forms
new era in the chemical history Of digestion. From
recent experiments we know that food is dissolved
rapidly in artificial digestive fluid, prepared
from Pepsin, as it is ia the natural Gastric Juice
ITSELF
Professor Dunglison of the Jefferson College,
Philadelphia, in his great work on human Physiol
ogy, deyotes more than fifty pages to an examina-
ton Of this subject. His experiments with Dr.
Beaumont, on the Gastric Juice, obtained from
living human stomach and from animals are we'll
known. In all cases, he says, digestion occurred
as perfectly la the artificial as ia the natural d.
gestlon.
AS A DYSPEPSIA CURER.
DR., Houghton's preparation of Pepsin has pro-
duced the most marvellous effects, curing cases OF
Debility, Emaciation, Nervous Decline and Dys-
pepsic Consumption, supposed to be on the very
verge Of the grave. 1t is impossible to give the
details of cases in the limits Of this advertisements
but authenticated certificates have been given of
more than two hundred remarkable cures in Phila-
delphia, New York and Boston alone. These were
nearly all desperate cases, and the cures were not
only rapid and wonderful but permanent.
1t is great Nervous Antidote, and particularly
useful for tendency to bilious disorder, Liver Com
plant, Fever and Ague, badly treated Fever
and Aeue and the evil effects of Quinine,
Mercury, and other drugs upon the digestive
organs after long sickness. Also, for excess in
eating, Land the too free of ardent spirits. 1t al
most reconciles health with intemperance.
OLD STOMACH COMPLAINTS
There is no form of old stomach complaints which
it does not seem to reach and remove at once No
matter how bad they may belt gives instant re-
lief! A single dose removes all the unpleasant
| symptoms-and it only needs to be repeated for a
short time, to make these good effects permanent
Purity of blood, and vigor Of body follow at once
1t is particularly excellent in cases Of Nausea
Vomiting-C ramps-,SoIeness OF the pit of the
Stomach-distress after -low-cold state oil
the Blood Heayiness-Lowness Of Spiyit-Des-
pondency-Em aciation-W eakness-T endency to
lnsanlty-Sucide, &c.
| Price, One Dollar per bottle. One bottle will
| often effect lasting cure.
PEPSIN IN POWDERS,
SENT BY MAIL, FREE OF POSTAGE.
| For convenience OF sending 10 all parasitic Di.
gestve matter OF the Pepsin is put up in form Of
| powders-with directions to be dissolved in water
| or syrup-by the patient. These powders contain
just the same matter as the bottles. but twice the
quantity for the same price-and will be sent by
mail free Of postage-ior dollar sent (post paid
| to Dr.. J. $. HOUGHTON. No. IL North Egh,
street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Six packages for five dollars. Every package
| and bottle bears the written signature Of J. s
HOUGHTON, M D., Sole Proprietor.
FOR SALE BY
THOMAS P. EsKRIDGE, Staunton.
A. S. WHITE 4 Co, Waynesboro',
B. +. GRAHAM, Greenville,