The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21


like the bridge, when the mans
strength reached its minimum resisting
capacity down he went.
There's fact for public considera-
ton. One form of disease is rarely
responsible for a premature death.
Time and time again the doctor in at
tendance on the man suffering from
typhoid or other fever says, Il could
have pulled that man through if it had
not been for his weak stomach" And
that weak stomach" is the one ever
present danger to the business man.
He has his warnings. Time and again
his stomach cries out, revolving at
the food given it, perhaps ejecting it
forcibly. Time and again he gasps and
claps his hand to his heart when it
gives a sudden, suffocating leap. Time
and again, when his starved nerves
have protested by headache, neuralgia
or some other form of pain. he has
thought he must get medical treat
ment. And when his wife finally says.
pleadingly, MY dear. do get something
for your neuralgia" or You must do
does he do? He just steps into drug
store as he goes downtown and gets
something in the tablet form which
dulls his pain and permits him to keep
at work, but which does not oppose a
straw in the way of the disease. Thus
the undermining process goes on until
the collapse comes, with its shock to
the family and surprise to the friends,
THE WARNINGS.
The first necessity of every man is to
heed the warnings Nature gives, that
this undermining process is going on
in his system. A stomach weakened
by abuse, gorged with over eating or
overburdened with hot bread, too rich
or greasy foods, or those too highly
seasoned, becomes weakened and fails
to thoroughly digest the food A
heavy, sodden mass is accumulated in
the stomach to ferment as the first step
in it's decay, giving OF foul gases 10
distend the stomach and poison the
blood until it becomes thin, weak and
lacking in the red corpuscles so neces-
sary to perfect health.
The overdistended stomach presses
upon the heart, and the latter organ is
also disturbed through sympathy, the
same system of nerves being distributed
to both organs. Thus palpltatlon ana
irregular action of the heart, with its
attendant shortness of breath, result,
and in time disease of the heart itself
is established.
The gases and other poisons gener-
ated from undigested, fermenting and
decaying food in the stomach becloud
the brain, causing headaches and pain
in the eyes.
Being absorbed into the blood these
podsons reach every part and organ of
the system. The kidneys are thereby
poisoned, causing Bright's disease and
diabetes. Filtering through the skin,
troublesome skin diseases often show
themselves.
AS every organ and every nerve de-
pend for their nourishment and renewal
upon the stomach, weak digestion
tite anG flesh, but also in nervousness,
debility. bad complexion and many
other arrangements.
Some people know where the trouble
is. They locate it in the stomach, be-
cause they have pain there after eating,
an irregular craving for food or an ap-
petite that eating does not satisfy.
There is heavinesS after meal, feel
ing of undue fullness. Perhaps the
stomach sours and there are bitter ris-
ings and belchings These symptoms
mark various forms and stages of
weak stomach" They will not all be
present in every case or. in the earlier
stages of the disease. Any one of these
symptoms locates the trouble in the
stomach and the digestive and nutritive
functions, which are disturbed.
The only way to properly heed these
warnings is at once to
JOIN HANDS WITH NATURES
FORCES
In an intelligent and persistent effort to
restore the health to its normal condi-
ton. This cannot be done by treating
diseases which are only symptoms of
the real and fundamental trouble. The
heart palpitates, but it is of no use to
treat the heart while the diseased
stomach causing the palpitatiCn goes
unheeded and unhelped. The nerves
Jingle and witch with pain. But it's
no use to take bromide preparations to
quiet the nerves drugging them into
drowsiness as crying children are some
times drugged. What the crying child
generally needs is food. The nerves
cry also because of hunger. You can
only stop the cutlery CT the nerves by
feeding them, and that must be done
through the stomach. In thousands and
thousands of cases it has been shown
that when the stomach, together with
its allied organs of digestion and nutri-
ton, are put into sound condition of
health the health of the whole body is
at once restored. Strength comes back
the color returns to the cheek, the
sparkle to the eye, the spring to the