Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-04-10
DR.. HARTMAN'S
Spring Catechism for Family
Use.
Science Made Simple = First
Lessons in Physiology.
A Complete Explanation of the
Disorders Peculiar to Spring
time Made Novel and Easy
by Short Questions and
Answers
Strictly Accurate in Every
Particular.
sPRING CATECnIsNI.

You gave three sources of blood I'M
puritieS, the second of which you said
ives digestive disturbances, will You
explain why Indigestion is more COM
mon in the spring? In the first place,
it requires more food 10 meet the de-
mands of the system during the winter
months, and the digestive system has
been taxed to their utmost and spring
hnds them exhausted and in need of a
good tonic like Pe-ru-na. In the sec
ond place, the scarcity of fresh fruit
and vegetables in early spring oompels
people to adopt diet which damages
the stomach, liver and kidneys, pro-
ducing biliousness. dyspepsia, and kid
ney diseases. This condition requires
a laxative, than which there Is no bet
ter than Man-a-lin. In the third place.
the prevalence of colds in the spring
deranges the digestive apparatus by
producing mucous congestions of stom-
ach and liver requiring the tonic Peru
ma Now, Indigestion, whatever may
be the cause of it, keeps the blood out
of order, for it is on the products of d.
gestion that the blood depends for its
supply, and if digestion is imperfect the
blood will be impure at once. Hence
the frequency of bad states of the blood
in spring-time.
The third source you mentioned of
the blood impurities of spring-time was
humors in the blood; what do you mean
by that expressionP 1t is meant by
humors such constitutional diseases as
scrofula, salt rbeum, boils and other
eruptions that are commonly thought
to be due to impure blood. Why should
they be more prevalent in the spring
than any other season. There are
several reasons why, few of which |
will mention. All of the unfavorable
influences peculiar to spring already
mentioned are, of course, calculated to
develop any latent humor or blood
poison that happens to be lurking in the
system. In addition to them the in
door life which most people lead in this
climate during the writer months great
ly increases the slightest blood faint by
inhaling the bad air of close, illyYentil-
ated rooms. By the time spring arrives
the system is thoroughly saturated with
various contaminations which excite
INTO activity any obscure blood disease
which had escaped notice the otlier
months of the year.
Why is scrofula more liable to make
itself known in the spring. Because
scrofula is disease of the Emphatic
glands, and they are intimately connect
ed with absorption OF fatty foods,
too much of which are eaten in the
spring, consequently they become
greatly overtaxed, and if there is the
slightest tendency to scrofula it will be
encouraged to break out at once.
WHAT about the eruptions you spoke
about? How do you account for the
fact that they should occur with greater
frequency in the spring months? The
skin is the natural exit of much of the
blood impurities which escape with the
perspiration, During the cold of winter
the skin has been dormant, but the re-
turning warmth of spring increases the
skin activity, and the accumulated
poisons finding escape irritate the skin
and cause the eruptions. Is there any
thing TO prevent this? Yes, the skin
can be artificlally stimulated to extra
activity by the use of La-cu-pi-a, and so
prevent the blood accumulations, or,
after they have accumulated, La-cu-pi-a
will neutralize them or hasten their es-
cape.
What is this La-cu-pi-a you refer to?
1t is medical compound known as an
Alternative. An Alternative is medicine
that has the power of curing constitu-
tional diseases usually called blood
diseases), of which scrofula, erysipelas.
and salt rheum are examples. OF what
are alternatives composed? There are
two classes of Alternatives vegetable
and mineral. The mineral Alternative
ought only to be used with the utmost
caution, as they are active poisons, like
mercury, geld and arsenic. Vegetable
alternatives are entirely safe, but it re-
quires more skill and expense to proper
ly prepare them for use than it does
mineral alternatives. What are laxatives?
They are compounded Of vegetables
that produce natural movement OF the
bowels, but do not physic or weaken.
Man-a-lin is such a laxative. Then,
with the tonic Pe-ru-na, the laxative
Man-a-lin and the Alternative La-cu-pi-a,
o,,a ,vorld no Y,rpnarad IN meet pveTv