The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-09-04
ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC WONDER
PIE PSIN3
THE TRUE DIGESTIVE FLUID,
OR
GA @EMTW u ia

A Great Dyspepsia curer, Prepared from
RENNEr, or the fourth Stomach OF the Ok,
after directions of Baron Liebig, the great
Physiological Chemist, by J. S. Houghion,
M. d., No.ll, North Eighth Street, Phila.
delphia, Pa.
This is a truly wonderful remedy for lndi
gestion, Dyspepsia, Jaudice, Liver Com
plant, Constipation, and Debility, Curing
after Natures own method, by Natures own
agent, the Gastric Juice.
M Half a spoonful of this Fluid, infused
in water, will digest or dissolve, Fiue Pounds
Of Roast Beef in about too hours, GU, 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 oil 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 il there will be no digestion, mo
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, hall
dead, or injured stomach produces no good
Gastric Juice, and hence the disease, dis
RESI- and debility which ensue.
IEPSIN AMI SIPU
element. or great Digesting Principle OF the
Gastric Juice. II is found in great abun-
dance IN the solid parts of the human stom-
ach after de ilh, and sometimes causes the
stomach 10 digest itself, or eat itself up. 1t
is also foundTn tile stomach OF animals, as
the OK. calf, sc. il is the material used by
farmers in making cheese, called Kennel,
The effect of which has long been the spe-
c,al wonder of the dairy. The curdliug OF
milk is the first process of digestion. Ren-
net possesses astonishing power. The stom-
ach of a calf will .curdle nearly one thou
sand times It's own weight Of milk, Baro
Liebig states that, One part of Pepsin dis
solved in sixty thousand parts Of water, vii
digest meat and other food" Diseased
stomachs produce no good Gastric Juice
Rennet or Pepsin. To show that this want
may be perfectly supplied, we quote the
following
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE!
BARON LlEBIc, in Lis celebrated work on
nimal Chemistry, sa Us: Gan Artificial Di-
esiiye Fluid analago us 10 the Gastric Juice,
may be readily prepared from the mucous
gmembrane Of the stomach oil the Calf,
which various articles of food, as meat and
egas. will be softened, changed, and diges-
ted, lust in the same manner as they would
be in the human stomach"
DIR. Pereira. in his famous treatise on
"Food and Diet" published by Fowlers &
Wells. New York, page 35. states the same
great fact, and describes the method Of prep
%aaration. There are few higher authorities
than DR.. Pereira.
DR. Combe, in his valuable writings on
he 0Physiology of Digestion" observe
that "a diminulion of the due quantity o
the Gastric Juice is a prominent and all pre-
failing cause of Dyspepsia )" and he state,
that "a distinguished professor Of medicine
in London, who was severely afflicted W. b
this complaint finding every thing else TO
fail. had recourse 10 the Gastric Juice, OBJ
tanned from the stomach of living animals
which proved completely successful"
DR.. Graham, author Of the famous work
on tVegetable Diet" says Kit is a remar-
kable fact in physiology, that the stomachs
of animals, macerated in water, impart TO
the fluid the properly of dissolving various
articles of food, and of efecting 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 & Blanchard, Phila., 1916,
PIP. 32l.2): "The discovery of PEPSIN
To- mi a new era i'll the chemica 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 il is in the natural Gastric Juice it,
SELF"
Professor Dunglison of the jefferson Col
lege, Philadelphia, in his great work on Hn.
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 hL-
man stomach and from animals are well
known. s'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 efiec cts, curing cases of De-
bility, Emacialion, Nervous Decline, and
d~ispeptic Consumption, supposed to be on
the very verge OF the grave. 1t is imposs-
Bile 10 give The details of cases in ehe limit
of this adveriisement-but authenticate
certificates nave been of more than two hun
dred Remarkable Cures, in Philadelphia, New
York, and Boston alone. These We're
nearly all desperate cases, and the cures
were not only rapid and wonderful, but per-
manent.
II is a great Nervous Antidote, and par
~ticularly useful for tendency TO bilious dis
order, Liver Complaint, Fever and A@ne, or
+ badly treated Fever and Ague, and the ev-
il effects of Quinine, Mercury, and other drug
upon the Digestive organs, after a long sick
ness. Also, for excess in eating, and the
TOO free use of ardent spirits. 1t 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, it gives
Instant Relief! A single dose removes all