The record-union., 1897-01-03
LOOK TO YOUR SIOMACHS.
Some Good Advice Given by a New York
Physician.
Ston1achS That Are riade Catch Ais
Ought to be Frequently
Flushed.

1T is mistake. The palate is the god.
The stomach is down trodden vassal-
a fallen angel But the day of reckon
ing is at hand.
colonel Sellers, blocking out his mag
nlhcent eye-water scheme for the ac-
cumulation of wealth, reckoned on
basis of population: There are Co.,
ooO,oOO OF people in ASIA each one OF
them has two eyes," and so he figured
out fortune.
Now. there are 100000 of people in
Greater New York; each one of them
has one stomach. If wishes We're stom-
achs, large proportion of these 3.000,-
900 would have seven stomachs, and a
vastly larger proportion would gladly
have none at all
Colonel Sellers, in calculating the
profits from the sale of his eye wash,
counted largely on the demoralized con-
dition of all those Asiatic eyes. Apply
ing the same method, what percentage
of the stomachs in Greater New York
is actually in need Of amendment. and
in just how far does that need of amend
ment affect the life. judgment, energy,
reliability of each individual-therefore
of the whole mass of population?
There is a royalty wide field for spec
ulation, and field which, properly
viewed, is of interest to every human
being who lives in Greater New York,
or has any business relations with it.
The significance of this matter of the
rlghtness or wrongness of the stomach
Is made finely clear by DR.. George D.
Bley thing in a paper recently read be-
fore the Lenox Medical Society
the influence of the stomach upon the
history of the world is incalculable,"
said DR.. Bleything. What military he
roes and explorers have accomplished
must have been left undone If their
fiery zeal and deeds of high emprise had
been quenched by dyspepsia Perhaps
one person out Of each 5000 human
beings has an intelligent idea of the fact
of the stomach, and also puts it to its
proper use.
The mother who will not suckle her
infant has the first opportunity of de-
Gliding If that individual stomach shall
be put to its normal use or if it shall be
condemned to a series of experiments
with concoctions. The experimental uses
habit of insistence upon its successive
schemes, each being, as it is reached,
the ultimate, and no favor is shown to
the unfortunate who has not the last
fashion.
THE fashion RACES for milk uncooked,
milk cooked, milk sterilized, milk Pas
teurized. milk modified, and yet some
times all are set aside for the manufac-
turing chemists products, which it were
WEAKNESS to flesh to enumerate. No
doubt many life is signed away" the
doctor says, "by the misuse of the
stomach in infancy"
Proceeding another step in the devel-
opment of the stomach it is made plain
that among the children of the so-called
working classes, with few exceptions.
the choice is rarely of any diet but that
which the children elect. The mentor
has no judgment to exercise. In a large
number of families who would resent
being classed with persons lacking judg-
ment, and who are of the plutocratic, If
not of the aristocratic, circle, no more
competent authority than a child's ap-
petite is recognized in choice of food.
when the child reaches the age of
boiling meats, green apples, etc, he
usually takes so much exercise and gets
such an amount of fresh air that his
condition is ameliorated up to the tina
when cigarettes and cocktails come into
the field. In these days a boy of 16 not
fully conscious of his ability TO direct
his affairs better than his parents could
advise him to do is a milksop and out
of the count, and SO there is taken up
the abuse of the stomach as a settled
plan of action.
"A hastily bolted breakfast with
coffee, cigarette or two on the way to
school, pie or sandwich and beer for
midday meal, and anything bad that
the fertile ingenuity of a French. Irish
or American cook can produce for a {
o'clock dinner, are the rule with the
boy, and very likely the girl varies her
menu only by taking her cigarette in
her bedroom
That is a very black picture to paint
of the sixteen-year-old schoolboy and
his little sister, but it has the hall mark
of professional authority and must have
credence.
L never take anything but a cup IF
coffee" That the physician hears fre-
quently, especially from women and
young girls. The treatment recomnen-
ded for such is "loosened corset and
forced feeding-an egg beaten in a glass
of milk for breakfast until the victim
will take chop in place of it."
The stomach is made a receptacle for
whatever tickles the palate on the wav.
Hot, cold, sweet, acid, peppery, oily in
varied succession. Think of pickles
salads, sauces, pasties and pastry. pate
de fol gras and ices, with lot of wines
and liquor poured over, in a viscus lined
with almost delicate secretine mem
brane and the illogical expectation of
health, strength and long life ensuing.
The athlete in training who INDUCED in
our usual diet would be mobbed by the
men who had backed him for a match
OF strength and endurance
The everyday man. to whom a stom-
ach is merely mysterious storage
place within him, which aches at some
times and at others gfTaws, would have
a nara time pursuing the scientific ex-
position OF the digestive process. He
would stumble and fall, probably. over
peptones and propeptones, ptyolin, al
oumen, syntonin, but he can under
stand the simple statement:
Upon the muscular power of the
stomach to discharge its contents de-
pends the continuance of healthful di-
gestion and of a normal stomach. Ac-
emulation of food promotes ferrnenta-
tion, putrefaction and distension of the
stomach. In turn n distended stomach
becomes hypertrophied. or its walls lose
motiifty and the contents still further
accumulate and breed ptomaines.
Poisons are generated by an accurn-