Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-04-22
Medicines.
Another Scientific wondc,
PEPSTN
The True Digestiye Fluid. Or Gastrio Juice I

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The True Digestive Fluid, or Gastric Juicei
A GREAT DYSPEPSIA CUREB,
Preparelyons Rcanet, fourth Stomach qfhe Or,
1ffer directions Of ieuoR Lis5ig, The great Ply
s,ologscat Chemist, ty J. s. HongAton,
~ d., No. IL, North Eighth ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
HyHISisatruly wonderfulrcmedy forIndgestion,
I Dyspepsia, yaundice, Liver Complaint, Consti-
patton, and Debility, curing after Natures own
method by Natures own agent, the Gastric Juice
g-rHalfa teaspoonful of this Fluid, infused in
water. will digest or dissolve Fire Pounds Of Roast
Beef in about fro hours, out of the stomach.asE
Digestion.
Digestion is chiefly performed in the stomach BY
the aid of fluid which freely exudes from the in
ner coat Of that organ when in a state Of health,
called the Gastric Juice. This fluid is the Great
Soirent Of The food The Purifying, PresTrfng, ana
Stimulating Agent of the stomach and intestlnes-
without it there will be no digestion-no CONVEX
sion Of food into blood, and nutrition ofthe bo-
dy; but rather foul torpid, painful and destruc-
tive condition fthe whole digestive apparatus.
weak half-dead, or injured stomach produces no
good Gastric Juice, and hence the disease distress
and debility which ensue.
Pepsin and Rennet.
Pepsn is the chief element, or great Digesfing
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 ofanmals as the OK, calf, &c. II is
the material used by farmers in making cheese,
called Rennct the effect of which has long since
been the special wonder of the dairy. The curd-
ling of milk is the first process of digestion Rem
net possesses astonishing power. The stomach of
calf willcurdle nearly one thousand times its own
weight of milk. Baron Liebig states that, some
part of Pepsin dissolved in sixty thousand parts of
water, will digest meat and other food.b Diseased
stomachs produce no good Gastric uice, Rennet or
Pepsin. To show that this want may be perfectly
supplied, we quote the following
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.
| Baron Liobig, in his celebrated work on Animal
/ Chemistry, says: 'An Artificial Digestive Fluid
analogous the gastric juice, may be readily pre-
| pared from the mucous membrane of the stomach
ofthe calf in which various articles offood meat
and eggs, will be solened changed and dgested Just
in The same they roid Le IN the human sto-
! mach.p
Dr. Percira, in his famous treatise on s'Food and
Diet published by Fowlers & Wells, New York,
page IS, states the same great fact and describes
the method Appropriation. There are few higher
authorities than DR.. Pereira.
/ DR.. Combe in his valuable writings on the ssPhy-
siology of Digestion observes that IA diminuton
of the due quantity of the gastric juice is promi
nent and all-preyaling cause of Dyspepsia and
he states that "a distinguished professor of medi.
cine in London, who was severely afflicted with thi.
complaint, finding every thing else to fail had re-
course to The gastric juice, obtained from the ste
mach of living ANIMALS, which proc completely sac
cessfan
Dr. GRAHAM, ac'hor ofthe famous workson s'Ve
getable Dietu says: at is remarkable fact iii ply
siology. that the stomachs ofanmals, macerated il
water, impart to the fluid the property of dissolv
ing various articles of food, and OF eifectng kind
of artificial digestion of them in no tetse dferen roH
the natural digestipe process"
Dr. Smon's great work the i'Chemistry of Man,
Iea & Blanchard, Phila., 1916 PIP. 32l-2,) says
'The discovery of Pepsin forms new era in The
chemical history ofDigestion From recent exper
iments we know that food is dissolved as rapidly
in an artificial digestive fluid, prepared from Pep
sin, as il is in the natural gastric Juice itself"
Prof Dunglison, of the Jefferson College. Phila
delphia, in his great work on Human Physiology
devotcs more than fifty pages to an examination o
this subject. His experiments with DR.. Beaumont
on the gastric juice, obtained from the living hui
man stomach and from animals, are well known
SIN all cases" he says, digestion occurred as per
fectly in the artificial as in the natural digestion
rs a Dyspepsia Curer,
Dr. Houghton's preparation ofPcpsin has produced
the marvellous Elects curing cases of Debifity
Enaciaiion, Nervous Decline, and Uyspept,e Con
SUMPTION supposed to be ON the very verge of thu
grave 1t is impossible to give the details of
in the limits of this Observation-Disclosures authenti
Gated certificates have been given of more than 20t
remarkable cures, in Philadelphia, New York ant
Boston alone These were nearly all desperate ca
SEES, and the cures were not only rapid and won
derful but permanent
1t is great Nervous Antidofe, and particularly
useful for tendency to bilious disorder: Liver Com
plant .Feverand Ague, or badly treated Fever anc
Aguc and the evil effects of Quinine, Mercury ano
other drugs upon the digestive organs, after a lone
sickness. Also for excess in eating, and the too
free use of ardent spirits. 1t almost reconcle'
J Heath 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 be- it gices instant re
lief A single dose all the unpleasant symp
TOMS and it only needs to be repeated, for shor
, time to make these good effects permanent. I'Wt
ty Of Blood and rigor Of body follow at once. 1t IL
particularly excellent in cases of Nausea, Vomit
ing, Cramps, Soreness of the pit of the Stomach
distress after eating low cold state of the Blood
heaviness, lowness of spirits, dependency, emacia
ton, weakness, tendency to insanity, suicide, &c
Price, 81 per bottle One bottle will often eff
J feet a lasting cure.
asg-Pepsin in powders, sent by mail, free o
postage.
For convenience of sending to all parts of tn
country the Digesire Matter Of the Pepsn is put vi
in the form ofPowders, with directions to be dis
solved in water or syrup by the patient. Thes
powders contain just the same matter as the bottles
OUT trtce the quoWuyJ0f me same PTtee anu Will
sent by mail free Of postage for 81 sent postpaid
to DIR. Hooghton, No II North Eighth ST., Phila
delphia, Pa.
Six packages for SIS. Every package and bottl
bears the written signature of J. s. lloughton, NJ
; D., sole proprietor.
Sold by Agents in every town in the U State:
and by respectable dealers in medicines generally
> Rels-For sale by W. H. Hesletine, Martinsburg
J. Wysong, Darkesville; g. Wynkoop Hedgesville
G. W Hoke Gerardstown, in Berkeley Co.. and b.
Joseph Harris, Charlestown Joseph Entler, SheI
herdstown, in Jefferson Co., Va.
September 3, 1850.
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