Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-04-15
Medicines.
Another scientific wondc,


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The True Digestive Fluid, or Gastric Juice
A GREAT DYSPEPSIA CURER,
Preparedfrota Rcset fourth Stomach Of the Or,
after directions Of Baron Lse5ig, the greet Phy-
siologica! Chemist, By H. s. Aoayhton,
MD, No. IL, North Eighth St., Philadelphia, 70
HyHISisatruly wonderful remedy for Indigestion,
/ Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaint, Cons,i-
patton, and Debility, curing after Natures own
method 10y Natures own agent, the Gastric Juice.
T-Half teaspoonful OF this Fluid, infused in
water. will digest or dissolve Fve Pounds o. Roast
Beef IN about two hours, out of the stomach&T
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 state Of health,
called the Gastric Juice. This fluid is the Great
Solvent Of The food the PurNsing, Preserring, and
.Simsiating Agent Of the stomach and intestines'
without il there will be no digestion-no CONVEX
sion of food into blood and nutrition ofthe bo-
dy but rather a foul, torpid painful and destruc-
tive condition Of the 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.
Pepsin is the chief element, or great Digestiag
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, SC. 1t 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 wilt curdle nearly one thousand times its own
weight of milk. Baron Liebig states that, ts0ne
part of Pepsn dissolved in sixty thousand rsrts Of
water, will 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
scrcNTIrIc 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
ofthe calf in which various articles offood as meat
and eggs, will be soened changed and dgested ,ust
IN the same manner 90 they tro,d be in the human sto-
macho H .asi9a s y
DIR. Pereira, in his famous treatise on tFood and
Diet,n published by Fowlers & Wells, New York,
page 35, 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 fPhy-
siology of Digestion, observes that "a diminntion
Of the due quantity of the gastric juice is promi-
nent and all-preyailing cause of Dyspepsia" and
he states that IA distinguished professor of medi-
cine in London. who was severely afflicted with this
complaint finding every thing else to fail, had re-
to the gastric juice, obtained from the sto
macn o. living anin"is' ~hieh P'op eomf'ae'y sue
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VI uranam, acthor OF tne famous workson g.
getable Diet y says Iii remarkable fact in ply
siology, that the stomachs of animals macerated in
water, impart to the fluid the property of dssolv-
ing various articles of food, and ofeffecting kind
oi a's'csds ages..o'' VI 'nen ." no ~se e'eJfoD
ene na, -. d.gesetee froces c 80 .
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!.The discovery Of Pepsin forms n new era in The
chemical history ofDisestion. From recent exper.
lments 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
devotes 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
'ln all cases. ne says Hdigestion occurred as per
fectly in the artificial as in the natural digestion
As a Dyspepsia Curer.
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