Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-03-09
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WHY CONSERVATIVES LOSE FLESH,
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The health and -trength of the body de
pend On the perfection + the lungs. No
quantity or quality of food can add one
grain : weight to the flesh of the body be
You'd the power OF the lungs to make new
blood. he food may be good and the
stomach digest it perfectly, and yet the
patient loses flesh ard strength from day
to day.
Most people suppose appetite and di-
gestion are all that are required to make
patients hold their own, at least but such
is not the fact The stomach has little to
do with the making OF new blood. 1t is IA
mill that grinds, Gissolves and separates
the food eaten, form ng from it a white
fluid called chyle. BEFORE the chyle can
impart its nutritious elements to the body
it must he carried by the lacteals to the
lungs and be endowed with life and change
into blood. This change is what is meant
by the term assimilation. 1t depends upon
the size and perfect action of the lungs
1t takes place in exact proportion to the
volume of air We take in at breath \
man having large lungs and full breath
ing is strong and tleshy because he assimi
lates large quantity of food and makes it
into blood. A man with small lungs and
INSTRUCTED breathing is weak and thin,
because he can only assimilate a small
quantity of food. Our weight is deter
mined by the volume of air we habitually
inspire at a breath This exactly measures
our blood making capacity. Poor food or
bad digestion may reduce us below our
standard weight, but no quantity or quail
lty OF food can ever make us rise above it
The moment our lungs become diseased
their capacity for air is lessened by the
swelling OF the lining of the tubes and the
mucous secretion which obstructs them,
and in exactly the same proportion their
power to assimilate food is reduced. A
loss of health and strength must follow
If the 6iSpaS increases he hreat HING
in the lungs also lessons, and the waste of
flesh and strength goes on more rapidly,
and no food or dieting can prevent it.
This is "a natural law of the human or
ganism. 1t was first discovered by me,
and is now fully recognized by the best
minds in the profession as one of the most
important discoveries of medical sicence of
our age. | have studied and observed
its operations in thousands of cases with
out one exception. 1t is great scientific
truth, vital to our being. 1t was stamped
upon us as Divine Law of God when He
"breathed into the nostrils the breath of
life and man became a living SOUP.
In the glorious light of this revealed law
OF science how pitiable seems the ignorance
and quackery of those who propose to cure
consumption by tonics and diet, while the
cause of the patient s weakness and vast
ing remains untouched in the lungs, The
only way the body can be "built up is to
remove the disease that is wasting it, by
treatment applied to the lungs capable
of restoring the breathing. DO that. and
the lungs will quickly rebuild the wasted
and enfeebled body. Fail to do it, no
human means can save the patients life.
TO be continued.)
tSigned) ROBERT HUNTER, NJ. d.
No. III West 45th ST., New York.
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