The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26

ed it: Martin Chuzzlewit has Just
landed. He has presented his cred
entails and met several prominent
citizens In company with two Of
these he is leisurely walking down the
street. engaged in conversation. Sud
denly the changing of a bell is heard
and the estimable citizens start off at
break-neck speed in the direction Of
the sound. Other people are seen run
ming in the same direction, Martin
conjectures that it is a fire and quick
ems his step. Around the corner he
comes on a brawny negro ringing a
bell with great industry and sees a
crowd lighting their way through
narrow door eager to reach the dinner
table. Martin finds, by the courtesy
Of the colonel, a seat turned down
for him and he watches the scene in
amazement. Everybody scrambling,
bolting and gulping as If life depend
ed on swallowing all the food possible
in the most indigestible condition.
''The poultry flew az rapidly as if
every bird had the use of it's wings
and had flown in desperation down
human throat. The oysters slid by
scores into the mouths of the assem-
bly,. The sharpest pickles vanished
like sugar plums. Great heaps Of in
digestible matter melted away as ice
before the sun. 1t was a solemn and
awful thing to see dyspeptic indivld
uals boiling food in wedges: feeding
not themselves but brood of night
mares. Spare men with lank and ri
gid cheeks came out unsatisfied from
the destruction of heavy dishes and
glared with watchful eyes upon the
pastry"
OF course this is caricature But
il Is caricature which impresses on us
that we eat too much and too rapidly.
That we eat without regard to the
fitness of our food for the nourishment
Of the body That we overload the
stomach, crush the digestive and nu-
tritive organs under a burden they
cannot carry, and recruit the ranks
of that great army of men and women
who are victims of stomach trouble"
The sanitariums are full of such peo-
pie. The springs and baths in this
country and Europe are largely sup
ported by them. They are tormented
day and night and are constanct vic
Tins of quackery in their struggle to
escape their torment. America is
known today as a dyspeptic nation. If
it be true, as crusty old DR.. Aber-
nethy used TO say, that the first place
to look for the cause of disease un-
der ordinary conditions is in the stom-
ach, how much more true must that
statement be under the extraordinary
conditions when a man abuses his
stomach as he would abuse a beast of
burden, when he scalds it at one mo-
ment and freezes it the next, stuffs
1t and starves 1t at the same time
irritates 1t with condiments, sluices
it with all kinds of fluids and loads it
with substances of as little food value
as wood pup?
That is the actual condition of things
which DIR. Pierce undertook to cope
with when he prepared his Golden
Medical Discovery for diseases Of the
stomach and organs of digestion and
nutrition. The theory that diseases
which originate in the stomach must
be cured through the stomach" was
the fundamental theory on which DR..
Pierce worked, and in a practice of
more than thirty years, cures of di-
StdSe III Htdll, utdui lungs, liver,
nerves and other organs, by the cure
of the diseased condition OF the diges-
tive and nutritive system, have abun-
dainty demonstrated the soundness of
the Doctors theory and the perfection
of the remedy he prepared to meet the
required conditions. These cures can
be numbered by hundreds of thousands
and the beneficiaries of DR.. Pierce's
skill are found in every walk of life
AS an illustration Of these state
ments and claims, take the case of Mr..
John l.. Coughenour, of Glensavage,
Somerset county, Pa. He writes:
Il had been doctoring and using pat
ent medicines for about a year and a
half, being unable to work most of the
time. The doctor said 1 had heart di-
sease and indigestion. i began with
a choking and oppressed feeling in the
chest: later on i was troubled with a
hungry feeling, and / seemed to be
raw from my throat clear down into
my stomach, My appetite was unus-
ually poor, and l was weak and ner-
vous as though had been starved out
for months My heart kept throbbing
continually and / was short of breath.
Finally wrote TO you for advice and
you informed me that l had indiges-
tion and a torpid liver. did not think
your diagnosis was right, but ordered
six bottles of Golden Medical Dis