The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-12-24
NO.. 43.
"a CHICAGO STOMACH"
bedentists Make q Discovery OutrankinG
That of the Chicago Nose.

That of the Chicago Nose.
Medical experts not long since de-
cided that there is "a Chicago lung"
which withstands pneumonia; "a Chi.
cago nasal apparatus" which defies
catarrh; "a Chicago" system of get
there" and push which rivals the
world, but not until recently was the
discovery made that there is "a Chicago
stomach"
To the resident of Cook county there
are apparent many evidences that Chi
cago, not satisfied with it's record Of
achievements in affairs. has gone into
the business of improving nature, and
the result is new stomach.
The new stomach is not at present the
success it is expected to become later.
But even now the scientific gentlemen
having charge of the Columbus medical
laboratory say there is picturesque
ness about the Chicago stomach that
amply repays intelligent study. Even
the "layman" has become impressed
with the fact that the Chicago stomach
opens up new avenues into the murky
regions of dyspepsia. but the scientific
medical man has whole stacks of data
on the subject.
Gastric disorder is pet way the Gar,
den city midrff has for making things
pleasant. The ailing person makes
known his condition by an amiabla
tendency to find fault with everything
and everybody. He has no especial con-
victions on anything, but if the rest of
the folks favor silver he is sure to como
out strong for gold. You can get up an
argument with him on any subject
above or below the earth, and on those
occasions of disputation the precise va
riety of crank he belongs to shows it.
self in his manner of bearing. In due
time, when the doctor gets hold of him,
the medical man is quite often at
loss to tell exactly what ia the trouble.
He knows the Chicago stomach is fertile
in devising manifestations of black hor-
ror and multiplying misery on short no.
tice, so he hastens over to the Colum-
bus building on State street and goes
upstairs to the medical experts on the
top floor.
Then the general practitioner finds
himself in a large, airy, well-lighted
room filled with apparatus. Glass
tubes, glass jars, electrical machines
and coil after coil of wire, with in
Vulnerable vials and bottles are every
where about. All the improved imple-
ments for the service of the analytic
chemist are within reach of the op-
orators, and the first thing they tell the
doctor whose patient has "a Chicago
stomach" is to get some of the sick
mans gastric juice. And this is how
they get the gastric juice: The man
is fed test meal of two pieces of toast
and half a cup of tea. An hour after
this meal has been disposed of the con-
tents of the stomach are obtained and
then the chemists begin their tests for
pepsin. Suppose nervous trouble is ut
the bottom of the difficulty, then the
symptoms are misleading. Chemical
analysis of the stomach for cancer or
ulcer is final, but for the obscure mala.
dies that accompany loss of muscular
tone the search is not always satisfac-
tory. But with poisons 1t is better,
and in kidney disease the tests for bile,
sugar, crystals, casts, ETC., are always
successful.
1t is In the department of germ cul-
ture, however, that the Columbus med
ical laboratory gives its attention in an
original way. Colonies of microbes are
grown and developed and bottled up for
future disposition, and the melting
causes of virulent epidemic diseases are
ushered into existence by the myriad.
and all for the benefit of science.
Guinea pigs are at hand to experiment
on, and the X ray is another factor that
comes in for close study. - Chicago
News.