Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-07-01
Medicines.
The True Digestive Fluid, or Gastric Juice!
A GREAT DYSPEPSIA tJRER
Another scientific wonder.

The True Digestive Fluid or Gastric Juice!
A GREAT DYSPEPSIA CURER,
Prepared from Reanef, tie fourth Stomach Qfhs Or,
qftar directions ~ Baron Lie6ig, tie great Ply
siologicai Chemist, BY J. s. Houghton
MD, No III, NORTH Eighth ST., Philadelphia, Pa
lTHISisatruly wonderfulremedyf indigestion,
il Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaint, Consti-
patton, and Debility, curing after Natures own
method, by Natures own agent the Gastric Juice
zTIialfa teaspoonful Of this Fluid infused in
water, will digest or dissolve Fpe Pounds Of Roast
Beef in about tsro hours, out Of the stomach ~
Digestion.
Digestion is chiefly performed in the stomach by
the aid of fluid which freely exudes from the in
called the Gastric Juice. This fluid is the Great
Soirent Of The food, The Purifying, Preserring and
Stimulating Agent Of the stomach and intestines
Without il there will be no digeston--no CONVEX
sion of food into blood and no nutrition of the boz
dy; but rather foul torpid, painful and destruc-
tive condition ofthe whole digestive apparatus. A
weak, half-dead, or injured stomach produces no
good Gastric Juice, and hence the disease distress
and debility which ensue.
Pepsin and Rennet.
Pepsin is the chief element. or oycat Dioesf;no
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 ofanimals, as the OK, calf, &C. II is
the material~used by farmers in making cheese,
called Rennet, 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 rarts of
water, win digest meat and other foodn 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 Liebig, in his celebrated work on Animal
Chemistry, says: "An Artificial Digestive Fluid
analogous to the gastric juice may be readily pre-
pared from the mucous membrane of the stomach
of the calf in which various articles of food as meat
and eggs will be scflened, changed and dgesfed Just
IN the same manner as they woatd be in the human sto-
macho
DR.. Pereira, in his famous treatise on ttFood and
Diet" published by Fowers g. Wells, New York,
page 49, states the same great fact, and describes
~ method appropriation. There are few higher
authorities than DR.. Pereira
DR.. Combe, i'll his valuable writings on the ssPhy-
sioogy OF Digestion, observes that "a diminution
of the due quantity of the gastric juice is promi-
nent aud all-prevailing cause of Dyspepsia and
he states that "a distinguished professor of medi-
cine in London, who severely afflicted with this
complaint, finding every thing else to fail, had re-
course to the gastric juice, obtained from the sto
mach Of living animals, which proe completely suc-
cessf,an
Dr.. GRAHAM, author ofthe famous works ON s.ye-
getable Diet says cit is remar BILE fact in ply
sioogy, that the stomachs of animals macerated in
water, impart to the fluid the property of dssolv-
ing various articles of food and OF efecting kind
of artificial digestion of them in no arise dGerenff from
the natural digestive process
DR. Simon's great work the t.Ch afrv e Nfa9,
LEA Blanchard, Phila., 1916, PIP. 32I-2.) says |
"The discovery of pepsin forms new era in the /
chemical history ofDigestion. From recent exp per-
iments we know that food is dissolved as rapidly |
in an artificial digestive fluid, prepared from Pep
sin, as it is in the natural gastric Juice itselfn
Prof. Dunglison, of the Jefferson College Phila-
delphia in his great work on Human Physiology,
devotes more than fifty pages to examination of
this subject His experiments with Dr. Beaumont
on the gastric juice, obtained from the living hu.
man stomach and from animals are well known
'In all cases." he says, digestion occurred us per-
fectly in the artificial as in the natural digestion
As Dyspepsia Curer,
DR. Houghton's preparation ofPepsin has produced
the most marsetious effects, curing of DcJify
EnaciatioD, Nervous Decline, and Dyspepttc Coa-
sumption, supposed TO be the very verge of the
grave. 1t is impossible to give the details of
in the limits of this adyertisement--but auhenti-
Gated certificates have been given of more than 200
remarkable cures, in Philadelphia, New York and
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 1ntidofe, and particularly
useful for tendency to bilious disorder Liver Com
plant Fever and Ague, badly treated Fever and
Aguc, and the evil effects of Quinine, Mercury and
other drugs upon the digestive organs, after a long
sickness. Also. for excess in eating and the too
free use of ardent spirits 1t almost reconciies
Health with I,,temperaace.
Old Stomach Complaints.
There is no form of Old Stomach Complaints
which it does not to reach and remove at
No matter how bad they may be, it gires instant re-
iet single dose remopes all The unpleasant sg,ap-
toms, and it only needs to be repeated for short
time, to make these good effects permanent Puri- |
y Of Blood and pigor Of body follow at once Ii is
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, ST. per bottle, One bottle will often ef-
feet lasting cure
Bay-Pepsin in powders, sent by mail, free Of
postage.
For convenience Of sending to all parts of the
country, the Digesee Matter Of the Pepsin is put up
in the form ofPowders, with directions to be dis
solved in water or syrup, by tne pasient These
powders contain just the matter the bottles
but twice the quantity for the same price and will be
sent by mail free Of postage, for ST sent pos-paid)
to DR., Houghton, No1l North Eighth St., Phila-
delphia, Pa
Six packages for SIS. Every package and bottle
bears the written signature of J. S. Houghton, NJ
D., sole proprietor.
Sold by Agents in every town in the U States,
and by respectable dealers in medicines generally.
Hsas~For sale by w II. Hesletine, Martinsbure;
J.Wysong, Darkesville; q. Wynkoop, Hedgesville
G. W. Hoke, Gerardstown, in Berkeley Co; and by
Joseph Harris, Charlestown; Joseph Entler, Shep-
herdstown in Jefferson Co., Va.