Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-26

Martin finds, by the courtesy OF the
Colonel, a seat turned down for him,
and he watches the scene In amaze
ment. Everybody scrambling, boiling
and gulping as if life depended On
swallowing all the food possible in the
most indlgestible condition.
The poultry flew as rapidly as if
every bird had the use of its wings and
had flown in desperation down human
throat The oysters slid by scores into
the mouths Of the assembly. The
sharpe5t pickles vanished like sugar
plunls. Great heaps Of indigestTble
matter melted away as ice before the
sun. 1t was a solemn and awful thing
to see dyspepCic individuals boiling
food in wedges; fedlng not themselves
but a brood OF Nightmares. Spare
men with lank and rigid cheeks came
otu unsatisfied from the destruction of
heavy dishes and giared with watchful
eyes upon the pastry
OF course this is caricature. But it
is caricature which impresses On US
that we eat too much and too rapidly.
That we eat without any regard to the
fitness Of cur food for the nourishment
of the body. That we overload the
stomach, crush the digestive and nutri-
tive organs under 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 people.
Tie springs and baths in this country
and Europe are largely supported by
them. They are tormented day and
night and are constant victims of quack
cry in their struggle to escape their
torment. America is known to-day as
a dyspeptic nation. II it be true, as
crusty old Dr. Abernethy sed to say,
that the first place to lcck for the cause
Of disease under ordinary conditions is
in the stomach, how much more true
must that statement be under the ex-
traordinary conditions when man
abuses his stomach as he would not
abuse a beast Of burden. when he
scalds it at one moment and freezes 1t
the next, stuffs it and starves 1t at
the same time, irritates 1t with con-
diments, sluices it with all kinds or
fluids and loads it with substances OF as
little food value as wood pulp?
That is the acual condition of things
which Dr.. 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 CT dis
eases in heart, head, lungs, liver, nerves
and other organs, by the cure of the
diseased condition CT the digestive and
nutritive system, have abundantly dem
onstrated the soundness of the Doe
tors theory and the perfection OF the
remedy ne prepared to meet the requlr-
ed conditions. These cures can be
numbered by hundreds Of thousands
and the benefciaries Of DIR. Pierce 8
skill are found in every walk of life.
AS an illustration of these statements
and claims. take the case of Nj. John
L. Coughenour, of Glensavage, Somer-
set county, Pa He writes:
81 had been doctoring and using pat
ent medicines for about year and
half, being unable to work most of the
time. The doctor said l had heart dis
ease and indigestion 1t began with
choking and oppressed feeling in the
chest later on | was troubled with
hungry feeling, and seemed TO be raw
from my throat clear down into my
stomach Ny appetite was unusually
poor. and was as weak and nervous as
though | had been starved out for
months. My heart kept throbbing con-
rinually and / was short OF breath.
Finally | wrote to you for advice and
you informed me that had Indigestion
and torpid liver. did NOT think Your
diagnosis was right, but l ordered six
bottles OF Golden Medical Discovery
from you and began its use. After
using three bottles began to improFo