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A Great Dyspepsia curer, Prepared from
RENNEr, or the fourth Stomach Of the Ok,
Physiological Chemist, by ]. S.. Houghton,
NJ. D., No.11, North Eighth Street, Phila
delphia, Pa.
This is a truly wonderful remedy for Indi-
gestion, Dyspepsia, Jaudice, Liver Com
plant, Constipation, and Debility, Curing
after Natures WI method, by Natures own
agent, the Gastric Juice.
II Half a spoonful of this Fluid, infused
in water, will digest or dissolve, Five Pounds
Of Roast Beef in about tro hours, out of the
stomach.
DIGESTION.
Digestion is Chiefly performed in the
stomach by the aid of a fluid which freely
exudes from the inner coat of that organ,
when in a state OF health, called the Gastric
Juice. This fluid is the Great solvent of the
Food, the Purifying, Preserving, and Stimula-
ting Agent of the stomach and intenstines.
Without ii there will be no digestion, no
conversion of food into blood, and no nu-
triton of the body but rather a foul, torpid,
painful, and destructive condition of the
whole digestive apparatus. A weak, half
dead, or injured stomach produces no good
Gastric Juice, and hence the disease, dis
tres 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 abun-
dance IN the solid parts of The human stom-
ach after de alh, and sometimes causes the
stomach 10 digest itself, or eat itself up. 1t
g.. .1,o ro,,l -, tbn etor,oob &C ,ripn,lS nc
the OK, calf, &c. tits the material used by
farmers in making cheese, called Kennel,
the effect of which has long been the spe-
clal wonder of the dairy. The curdliug of
milk is the first process of digestion. Rem
net possesses astonishing power. The.stom-
ach of a calf will curdle nearly one thou
sand times lis own weight of milk. Baron
Liebig states that, Zone part of Pepsin dis
solved in sixty thousand parts OF water, will
digest meat and other food" Diseased
stomachs produce no good Gastric Juice
Rennet or Pepsin. To show that this want
may be>periectly supplied, we quote the
following
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE!
BARON LIEBIG, in Lis celebrated work on
Animal Chemistry, says: "An Artificial Di-
gesiive Fluid analogous to the Gastric Juice,
may be readily prepared from the mucous
membrane of the stomach Of the Calf, in
which various articles of food, as meat and
eggs, will be softened, changed, and diges-
ted, 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 Fowlers &
| Wells, New York, page So. states the same
great fact, and describes the method of prep
~aration. There are few higher authorities
than DR.. Pereira.
DR. Combe, in his valuable writings on
the physiology of Digestion" observes
that "a diminution of the due quantity of
the Gastric Juice is a prominent and all pre-
vailing cause of Dyspepsia }" and he states
that "a distinguished professor of medicine
in London, who was severely afflicted with
this complaint. finding every thing else 10
fail, had recourse TO the Gastric Juice, OBJ
tanned from the stomach of living animals,
which proved completely successful"
DR.. Graham, author of the famous works
on vegetable Diet" says: 'it is a remar-
kable fact in physiology, that the stomachs
of animals, macerated in water, impart 10
the fluid the property of dissolving various
articles of food, and of effecting a kind of
artificial digestion of them in no wise DIFF
ferent from the natural digestive process"
DR.. Simon's great work, the "Chemistry
of Man, (Lea g. Blanchard, Phila., 1916,
PIP. 321-2): "The discovery of PEPSIN
70 ms a new era in the chemical history of
Di g%estion. From recent experiments we
KIN ow that food is dissolved as rapidly in an
artificial digestive fluid, prepared from Pep.
sin, as it is in the natural Gastric Juice it.
self"
Professor Dunglison of the Jef Ferson Col
l~.1 Dl,1~l-tNh.a ,rFh., -r1ot ,-N.l - H..
man Physiology, devotes more than fifty
pages to an examination of this subject.
His experiments with DR.. Beaumont, on the
Gastric Juice, obtained from the living h.-
man stomach and from animals are well
known. 'In all cases." he says, "digestion
occurred as perfectly in the artificial as the
natural digestions."
As a DYSPEPSIA CURER, DR. Houghton's
preparation of Pepsin has produced the
most marvellous effects, curing cases of De-
bility, Emaciation, Nervous Decline, and
dispeptic Consumption, supposed to be on
the very verge OF the grave. 1t is imposs.
BILE 10 give the details of cases in the limit
of this adverlisement-but authenticate
certificates have been of more than tiDo hun
bred Remarkable Cures, in Philadelphia, New
York, and Boston alone. These were
nearly all desperate cases, and the cures
were not only rapid and wonderful, but per-
manent.
1t is a grea. Nervous Antidote, and par
ticularly useful for tendency TO bilious dis
order, Liver Complaint, Fever and Ague, or
badly treated Fever and Ague, and the evil
effects of Quinine, Mercury, and other drugs
upon the Digestive organs, after a long sick
ness. Also, for excess in eating, and the
too free use of ardent spirits. Ii almost rec.
o%nciles 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 be, il gives
Instant Relief! A single dose removes all
the unpleasant symptoms, and it only needs
TO be repeated, for a short time, 10 make
these good effects permanent. Purity of
Blood and yigor of Body, follow at once. 1t
is particularly excellent in cases of Nausea
Vomiting, Cramps, Soreness Of the pit of
the Stomach, distress after eating, low, cold
state OF the Blood, HeaviLess, Lowr ess of
Spirits, Dependency, Emanciation, Weak.
ess, tendency TO Insanity, Suicide, &c.
Price, ONE DOLLAR per bottle. One
bottle will often effect a lasting cure.