The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-25
NATURES LAWS.
Lecture by Mrs, l.. 8. Carter of B os,on.

MIS-. Oatter or Boston, upon Natures Laws.
Mrs. Carter was introduced by DR.. Walsh o
Boston, who made very few brief introduce,
ry remarks Mrs. Carter spoke as follows:
have not invited you here tonight with tn
intention of Offering you a literary or intellectu
1 q entertainment, for you can find plenty o
| those elsewhere if you feel SO inclined: but tt
make some plain statements about matter
| which should be of interest to US ALL as they
are of the utmost importance to our health ant
| welfare.
1 thank you most heartily for coming ant
trust you will hear me not only patiently bu
with profit to yourselves, for have no doub
| that you will perceive as clearly as l do tina
what we are about to discuss is strictly true
there is not an atom of fraud or imposition con
| nected with it. l wish to tell you some plain
facts about the ills and aches to which our pool
| human frame is liable, but do not propose tt
| specify certain troublesome diseases without
being able to show you simple, safe and sure
| cure. For you know
afOf all the evils under the
There is remedy or there's none;
Ii there is one try and find it.
Ifthere isn't, never mind it,.
But bodily pain and discomfort. we must mind
for the reasons that we have no call to endure
needless suffering, and that a diseased or weak
body reacts upon the mind and produces men
tai inactivity and depression and an uneven
| temper.
The wonderful success Of Holman's Liver
Pad in the United States during the past
five years, and the unprecedented demand
which it has had in this section of the country
for the last three months proves conclusiyely
what science is doing in the nineteenth century
| to alleviate the sufferiDgs of humanity. The
pad was invented by George W. Holman, attel
having himself used unsuecessfully all the rem
edes ordered for him by physicians of every
school. By careful research he compounded
the vegetable ingredients Of the pad, his dry
plaster, as he then called it, and with it effected
his own cure. After which he experimental
and improved upon it until it has become en-
tirely and absolutely perfect And the great
feature of the treatment, and the one which
renders it precious beyond estimation is that no
medicine is taken into the stomach. What a
power this wonderful discovery, is can only. be
appreciated by those who have been suffering
from the old system of dosing with poisonous
drugs, and who have been made. happy by the
use of this simple restorative. Over 5000 per-
sons in New England have been cured by it
of various diseases during the last three
months. 1 wish to speak mainly tonight of
that class of diseases which arise from torpid
or dsordered stomach and liver. Regulate
these two organs SO they perform their func-
tions perfectly and you will remove nineteen
twentieths of all the ills that flesh is heir to in
this climate or any other. If you ask me to
prove this it is simple enough and easily under
stood. There is no mystery about it, The first
stomach receives the food after it has been mas
tcated and mixed and covered with the saliva
CT the mouth, and if the stomach is healthy
gastric juice, which is both solvent and anti
septic, appears in abundant quantities, mixing
with the food and exciting the muscular mo-
ton CT the stomach, which churns the food
back and forth from left to right and right to
left again until it is thoroughly saturated with
and dissolved by the juice, and becomes gray
ish, cream like substance called chyme, which
then passes through a valve called pylorus into
the sacop1 sfono oh ca1lad duodanuun Tn tho
absence of this gastric juice the food must fer
ment and decompose before it can pass into
the second stomach; this unnatural disposition
of the food l shall speak of again presently.
This cbyme, which we now have 10 the duode-
mum, then comes in contact and is mingled
with juices from small glands and with the
juice of the pancreas and also with the bile of
the liver; this latter is of yellow color and is
very bitter; the pancreatic juice is very mild.
much like the saliva of the mouth. With the
tinues and the separation takes place of the
indigestibie material from the nutritive portion
called the chyle, which is absorbed by the lac
teals and carried through the mesenteric glands
to the thoracic duct, which is strong tube
about the size of small goose-quill, situated in
front of the spine, and thence into the veins
near the heart. IL is here the sugary and al
luminous parts are surrendered to the veins to
be by them carried to the liver. The liver, kid
neys, lungs and skin are all constantly en-
ployed in taking from and carrying off the poi
son, dead, effete matter of the human system
The heart sends the blood out through the arte-
ries into the extremes of the system and to the
surface where the blood vessels terminate in the
smallest possible tubes
Thus we have seen the food converted into
blood and sent all over the body. In this Cir
cult it leaves its vitalizing influences, and re-
turns through the veins to the heart for redis-
tr;bution. This returning venous blood is dark
and poison and needs to be cleansed, purified
and reviVfied; the liver should remove a large
proportion of this poison and from it secrete
bile, which is natures cathartic. The kidneys
should take from it the surplus water, thus
preserving an even temperature, also remove
those having nitrogen in them. The lungs
should take from the blood carbon aud impart
oxygen through contact with the atmosphere.
The remainder of the poisons passes off
through the skin and the natural outlets of the
body.
When any of these organs are interrupted or
obstructed in their offices by disease or mechan-
ical injury the others are naturally quickened
paired organs have left undone. Thus when
the blood comes to the liver on its way to the
heart, if that organ fails to perform its proper
functions the kidneys, lungs and skin become
developing weakness and inflammation are in
condition for pneumonia to set in on exposure.
The skin shows its efforts by the salow, saffron
tints always apparent when the liver is torpid,
and the blood clogged with malarial poison.
Bnt the kidneys are most apt to suffer injury
from this condition of things, and unless relief
is obtained it would probably result in chronic
difficulty.
There is rarely kidney trouble that is not
preceded by some arrangement of the liver.
And we have seen how SO many developments
of Idisease may have primarily their origin in
the liver just soon as it fails in its duty, the
blood still making the circuit Of the entire sys-
TEN every few minutes seeks relief but does
not find it, and gradually the finer tissues be-
come involved and then the weak places begin
to show trouble and we may be sure if there ia
natural predisposition 10 any disease in any
organ or part of the system this poisoned blood
will find it.
Now then as the stomachs are the great
reservoirs from which the entire system is sus-
tanned, it will be readily seen if the gastric
juice in the first stomach lacks sufficient
quantity then fermentation and decay of the
food follows; as necessity it must pass into
the second as vile poison. Neither the juices
of the pancreas, the bile, or any other known
property can ever restore it to the condition
nature intended it. This shows the great i'm
that, even in health, if more food is taken at a
time than there is gastric j1ce to dissolve
some of it must pass down ,undigestsd and be-
come source of much irritation and 1Ejury to
that person, sick or we'll, may eat as much as
he wants, that is, until bis appetite is satisfied
or his stomach is full, is a most pernicious doc
trine that destroys many life. 1t is fact
that little food, well digested, will sustain
health and vigor, and that if but little is taken
it will generally be well dgested.
Don't eat too much or too often; Tthe dges-
tive organs should never be forced to commence
action on new supply till they have rested
from their labors if WELL or are relieved of their
burdens if DISTRACTED. Eat those articles that
by long trial and careful observation you find
best to agree with you, but l repeat it, don't
eat too much. Perhaps some of you may feel
interested to hear how this gastric juice by
which the food is digested is formed. 1t is
fluid secreted by the arterial capillaries that
pierce the villous coat of the stomach There
is seldom much of it free in the stomach.
1t appears by the observations of DR.. Beau
mont. who was permitted to inspect its opera.
tons through an aperture in the side of San
Martin, that it is secreted powerfully, by the
proper vessels, just at the time the food comes
in contact with the stomach. a surgical opera
ton which was recently performed successfully
in Paris, has enabled French Psychologists to
observe the processes of digestion by actually
looking into the stomach of the patient. A
study of this case shows that milk promotes Ci-
gestion, and that at the end of four hours after
food is taken, the stomach is generally empty,
but that hunger is not felt until two hours later
Too much fluid in food or drinks, or using a too
great quantity Of drink at meals, causes the
stomach to relax, lessons the force of the gastric
juice and thus retards digestion.
In the springtime when everything in the
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