Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-05-13
Medicines.

he Tr9s Digestive Fluid, or Gastric Juice

/ The True Digestive Fluid, or Gastric Juice!
ASREAT DYSPEPSIA CURER,
Preparation RsaHst, b. tAefoarth ssossaeh eftks o.
! aiser directions 81 Baron Liebi9, The great Phg-
| siological Chemist, 6,f j. q Hoaahfan.
| MD, No IL, North Eighth ST., Palladetplia, Pa.
lYsHISisatruly wonderfuiremedy forIndigestion
| i Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaint, Consti-
patton, and Debility, curing after Natures own
method by Natures own agent the Gastric juice
| zyHalfa teaspoonful Of this Fluid, infused in
water, viii digest or dissolve Flee Pounds of Roast
! Beg IN about two hours, out of the stomach.4k
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 Grsdf
Soirsnf cf The food, The Pawwsiso, Preserving AID
Ntlaiotfng Agent Of the stomach and intestines
without it there will be no digestion-no CONVEX
sion Of food into blood and no nutrition OF the boz
dy; but rather foul. torpid painful and destruc-
tive condition fthe 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 great Digssfing
Prnciple Of the Gastric Juice Tits 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 II is also found in
the stomach of animals, as the OK calf sc. 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 willcnrdle nearly one thousand times its own
weight of milk. Baron Liebig states that zone
part Of Pepsn dissolved in sixty thousand PARTS Of
water, will digest meat and other foodv 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: San Artificial Digestive Fluid
analogous TO the gastric juice, may be readily pre-
pared from the mucous ~ rane of the stomach
ofthe calf in which yariotsdftcles offood as meat
and eggs, will be sctlened changed and d;gested Just
IN TIE same manner as they tcoud be in the human sto-
mach.'
DR.. Pereira, in his famous treatise on sFood and
Diet" published by Fowlers & Wells, New York,
page 80, states the same great fact and describes
the method ofpreparation, There are few higher
authorities than DR.. Pereira.
! DR.. Combe, in his valuable writings on the aPhy-
siology ofDgestion,p observes that "a dimnution
of the due quantity of the gastric juice is prom-
nent and all-preyailing cause of Dyspepsia y and
he states that "a distinguished professor of med-
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 ror completely sue
cesSfdn
Dr.. Graham, author ofthe famous works on eve
getabe Diet says: sit is remarkable fact in phy-
sology, that the stomachs of animals macerated in
water, impart to the fluid the property of dissov-
ing various articles of food and of effecting kind
OF artificial digestion of them in no cise different from
the natural digestire processn
Dr.Simons great work, the 'Chemistry of Man. !,
LEA Il Blanchard, Phila. 1876 DID, 32l-2l saws:
''The discovery of Pepsin forms new era in the
chemical history ofDigestion. From recent ex per-
ilnents 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 itselfp
Prof. Dunglison, Of the Jefferson College, Phla-
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
SIN all cases" he says digestion occurred as per-
fectly in the artificial as in the natural digestion
as a Dyspepsia Curer,
Dr. Houghton's preparation of Pepsin has produced
the most marvellous effects, curing cases of De5iify
E,aaciafion, Nervous Decline and Dyspeptic Con-
sumption, supposed to be on the very verge of the
grave 1t is impossible to give the details of cases
in the limits of this advertisement--but authenti
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 A,,tidote, and particularly
useful for tendency TO bilious disorder Liver Com
plant Fever and Ague or badly treated Fever and
Aguc, and the evil effects of Quinine Mercury and
other drugs upon the digestive organs, after long
sickness. Also, for excess in eating, and the too
free use of ardent spirits. 1t almost reconciles