The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-06-30

Another Scientific wonderl
Da. J. 8. HOUCHTON'S
GREAT DYSPEPSIA CURERi
|e ]EI!:'!!i!!gr
ass &C.,
THE TRUE
DIGESTIVE FLUID,
OR
GASTRIC JUICE
Prepared from RENNET or the fourth
| BARON LIEBIG, Tho great Physiological
Chemist, by j. S. IIOUGHTON, NJ. d. Phils.
dslphia, Pa.
This is a truly wonderful remedy for IN.
DIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA. JAUNDICE,
LIVER COMPLAINT, CONSTIPATION,
and DEBILITY, curing after Natures own
| method, by Natures own Agent, the Gastric
Juice.
To- Half tcasrooniul OF PErsIS, Infused
in water will digcs. or dissolve Five Pounds
OF Roast Beef in about two sIho, ofuouthe
stomach.
PEPSIN is thc'chcf element or Great Di>
costing Principle ofthc Gastric Juicc-tlie Sol
vent Of the Food, the Purify ing, Preserving,
and Stimulating Agent Of the Stomach and
Intcstincs. l, is extracted from the Digestive
Stomach of the Ok. thus forming an ARTI>
FtCIAL DIGESTIVE FLUID, precisely
like the natural Gastric Juice in its Chemical
powers, aud furnishing n COMPLETE and
PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for it. BY the
aid Of this preparation, the pains and evils ni
INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA are re-
moved, Just as they would lie by a healthy
Stomach. 1t is doing wonders for Dyspeptics
NERVOUS DECLINE, and DYSPEPTIC
CONSUMPTION supposed to he on the
verge OF the grave. The Scientific Evidence
upon which it is based is in the highest degree
CURIOUS and REMARKABLE
SCIENTIFIC EvIDENCEi
BARON LIEBIG, in his celebrated work
on Animal Chemistry, says :" Artificial Di-
gestive Fluid, analogous to the Gastric Jnice,
membrancc Of the Stomach Of the Calf, in
which various articles Of food, as meat and
eggs. will be softcned, changed and digcsted.
Just in the same manner ~ they would be in
the human ciomach.'
DIR. PERElRA, in his famous treatise on
Food and Diet" published by Fowlcrs &
Wells New York, page IS, states the same
great fact, and describes the method OF prepsr.
alton. There are few higher authorities than
DR. Perera.
DIR COMBE. in his valuable writings on
tbs Physiology of Digestion" observes that
a diminution Of the due quantity Of the Gastric
Juice il prominent and all prevailing causes
OF Dyspepsia y and he states that \ distin
guished professor OF medicine in London who
vas severely afflicted with this complaint find
Ing everything else 10 fail, had rccourcc TO the
Gastric Juice obtained from the stomachs of
living animals, which proved completely sue.
ccssful."
DR.. GRAHAM author Of the famous works
OIL " Vegetable Diet says :" II is remark
able fact in physiology, that the stomachs OF
animals, maceraihe in water, impart to the Auid
the properly Of ,lissolving various articles OF
food, and Of effectng a kind OF artifci | digcs.
ton OF them in nowisc different from the nat
ural digestive process"
Professor DUNGLISON, of the Jefferson
College. Philadelphia in his great work on
Human Psychology devotes more than fifty
pages to an examination of this subject Ils
experiments with DR.. Beaumont, on tho Gas.
trio Juice, obtained from living human Stom
achs and from animals, are wei known. In
all cases" he says. digestion occurred as per.
fecrly in the artificial rs in The natural diges,
ton"
DR. JOHN w. DRAPER, Professor Of
Chemistry in the Medical College of the Uni.
versty Of New York, in his " Text Book OF
Chemi,tfy, page $50. says al. has been a
question whether artificial digestion could be
preformed-but it is now universally admit ed
that it may be-"
Dr.. CARPENTERS standard work on
Physiolsgy, which is in the library Of every
Physician, and is used as Text Book In all
the Colleges, is iul. Of evidence similar to the
above, respecting the remarkable Digestive
power Of PErsiS, and the Tact that it may be
readily separated from the stomach of The calf
or OF, and used for experiments in Artificial
Digestion, or asa remedy for disease Of the
stomach, and deficient secretion OF Gastric
Juice