The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-04-04
Concll d I'd from last toeek.
DR.. HARTMAN'S
Spring CateChiSm for Family Use.
Science Made Simple First Lessons
In Physiology.
A Complete Explanation Of tho Dis
orders Peculiar to spring-tlme
Made Novel and Easy by Short
Questions and Answers
So Strictly Accurate IN
Every Particular,

You gave three sources of blood impuri-
ties, the second of which you said was di-
gestive disturbance; will you explain why
indigestion is more common in the spring
In the first place. 1t requires more food to
meet the demands of the system during the
winter months, and the digestive system has
been taxed to their utmost and spring finds
them exhausted, and in need of good tonic
like Pe-ru-na. In the second place, the
scarcity of fresh fruit and vegetables in
early spring compels people to adopt diet
which damages the stomach, liver, and kid
neys, producing biliousneSs, dyspepsia and
kidney diseases. This condition requires a
laxative, than which there is no better than
Man-a-lin. In the third place, the prevail
ence of colds i'm the spring deranges the di-
gestive apparatus by producing mucous
COMPOSITIONS of stomach and liver, requiring
the tonic, Pe-ru-na. Now, indigestion what
ever may be the cause of it, keeps the blood
out OF order, for it is on the products of diges-
ton 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 sprlng-time.
The third source you mentioned of the
blood impurities In spring time was humors
in the blood; what do you mean by that ex-
preston 1t is meant by humors, such con-
stitutional diseases as scrofua, salt rheum,
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.
AL 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 indoor
life which most people lead in this climate
during the winter months greatly increases
the slightest blood faint, by inhaling the
bad air of close, illy-ventilated rooms. by
the time spring arrives, the system is thor
Oughly saturated with various contamina-
items which excite into activity any obscure
blood disease which had escaped notice the
other 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 connected with the absorption
of fatty foods, too much of which are eaten
in the spring, consequently they are greatly
overtaxed, and IL there is the slightest ten
deucy to scrofula 1t 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 frequen-
cy in the spring months? The skin is the
natural exit of much of the blood impurities
which escape with the Precipitation. Dur
ing the cold of winter the skin has been dor
mant, but the returning warmth of spring
increases the skin activity, and the accumu-
lated poisons finding escape irritate the
skin aud cause the eruptions. Is there any
thing to prevent this {? Yes, the skin can
be artificially stimulated to extra activity by
the use of La-cu-pi-a, and so prevent the
blood accumulations, or, after they have ac-
cumulated, La-ce-pi-a will neutralize them
or hasten their escape.
What is this La-cu-pi-a you refer to? 1t
is medical compound known as an alterna-
native. An alternative 10 medicine that
has the power of curing constitutional dis
eases, usually called blood diseases), of
which scrofula, erysipelas and salt rheum
are examples, OF what are alternatives
composed? There are two classes of alter
natives-vegetagle and mineral. The min
eral alternative ought only to be used with
the utmost caution, as they are active pois-
Ons, like mercury, gold and arsenic. Veg
etable alternatives are entirely safe, but it
requires more skill and expense to properly
prepare them for use than it does miner al
ternatives. What are laxatives? They are
compounded of vegetables that produce a
natural movement Of the bowels, but do not
physic or weaken. Man-a-ln is such lax
alive. Then with the tonic Fe-ru-na, the
laxative Man-a-lin and the alternative La
cu-pi-a, one would be prepared to meet
every variety of the blood disorders of
spring, do you mean TO say? Exactly; and
this cannot be done successfully with less
than three distinct remedies, and that Pc
ru-na, Man-a-lin and La-cu-pi-a ARE those
tbrse remedies no On0 who knows them
will attempt to deny.