Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1851-08-14
Scientific Evidence!

Baron Liebig in his celebrated work on Animal
Chemistry, says: AN Artificial Digestive Fluid
analogous to the Gastric Juice, may be readily
prepared from the mucous merahranc nc ;n,
stomach of the Calf in which various articles ci
food, as meat and eggs. will be so.teaci charged
and digested, just in the same NAME as .aev
would be in the human stomach"
DR. Pereira. in his famous treatise On aF0o ana
Diet" published by Fowlers & Wells New YorI.
page 80 states the same great fact, and describe
the method ofpreparation. There are few higher
authorities than Dr. Pereira
Dr. Combe in his valuable writings on the
Physiology of Digestion observes that "a di
minution of the due quantity OF the Gastric Juice
IS prominent and allprevailing cause of Dys-
pepsa;" and he states that = distinguished prc-
lessor of medicine in London, who was severely
afflicted with this complaint, finding everything
else to fail had recourse TO the Gastric Juice OBJ
tanned from the stomachs of living animals, which
proved completely successful
Dr. Graham, author of the famous works on
Vegetable Diet, says: 1T is a remarkable fact
in physiology, that the stomachs of animals ma
cerated in water, impart to the fluid the property
Of dIssolvlng various articles of food and ofefec-
ting kind of artificial digestion of them in no
wise different from the natural digestive process "
DIR. SImons great work, the "Chemistrv Of
Man. (Lee & Blanchard, Philadelphia 1916. pp.
32l-2) says: The discovery of PEPsIx forms a
rev era in the chemical history of Digestion
from recent experiments, we know that food l.
dissolved rapidly in an artificial digestive fluid
prepared from Pepsin, as it is in the natural Gas
-ric Juice ITSELF
Professor Dunglson, Of the Jefferson College.
thtladelphIa, IN his great work on Human Phys
ology, devotes more than fifty pages TO an exam.
nation of this subject His experiments with
Dr.. Beaumont, on the Gastaic Juice obtained from
The living human stomach and from animals. are
well known. "In all cases" he says. "digestian
occurred perfectly in the artificial as in the ma
ural dgestions7
DR.. John w. Draper Professor of Chemistry in
he Medical College of the University of New
York, in his Text Book of Chemistry, page 3sG.
says 1t has been question whether artificial di
gestion could be pertormed-but it is now mi
versally admitted that it may be
DR.. Carpenters standard work on Physiology.
which is in the library of every Physician. and is
used a Text Book in all the Colleges. is full Of
evidence similar to the above, respecting the re-
mar6able Digestive power of Pepsn and the fact
hat Il may be readily separated from the ston1-
lch OF the cali or OK, and used for experiments in
Arthcai Digestion, or as a remedy for disease Of
stomach, and deficient secretion OF Gastric Juice
All modern works on Chemistry. Nlateria Me
licia, and Physiology, and all good Medical Die
lonaries, describe the character and properties q.
epsin, and state many interesting details respect
ing it,
The fact that an Artificial Digestive Fluid. or
iastric Juice, perfectly resembling the natural
iuid may be readily prepared does not admit Of
question. The only wonder is. that it has not be-
ore been applied to the cure of Indigestion and
Oyspepsia-so naturally does such use suggest
Itself to the mind