Evening star., 1904-03-12
A BOON TO SUFFERERS |
Wonderful Discovery Of Two
French Physicians.
INTESTINAL DYSPEPSIA
CAN BE CURED BY THE USE OF
TARTARIC ACID.
Stimulates the Natural Secretion
How It is Introduced Into
the Great Intestine.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
PARIS. March 1, 1904.
wonderful discovery in physiology has
just been made in Paris.
1t is a complete discovery, carrying its
| remedy with it; so that physicians all over
the world will doubtless begin using 1t at
once. And it will prove an inestimable
boon to half the readers of these lines. 1t
is the discovery of the cause and cure of
constipation.
The trouble is as old as civilization. The
discovery of its cause and cure is new; also
they have given the old trouble a new
name.
1t is intestinal dyspepsia!
And it's cure, which is the cure of consti-
patton, reacts happily on that other we'll
known dyspepsia-of the stomach; so much
SO that with the swallowing of little glu-
ten capsule once. day, or less often, the
whole manor woman-is transformed.
passing from nightmare into radiant day!
1t reads like patent medicine advertise
ment, but it is the science of the Paris
Academy of Medicine, accepted with ap-
plause by forty reverend members from the
hospital physiologist, DR.. Enriques, who
presented the discovery in his own name
tory of the College de France. Technically
the communica ton is called a memoir.
Harvey might have presented such a
memoir on the circulation of the blood to
the College of Physicians of his time, SAID
a Paris doctor to me, enthusiastically. IT
concerns the discovery of function OF the
body.
"And a new drug p suggested.
moi he exclaimed "it has nothing to
do with drugs! 1t is pure physiology, along
the line of the researches OF modern phySi-
ologists of Paulow, DeleZennes, t'rouln, En-
rioueZ and Hallion. These researches have
Just demonstrate that the mucous mem
brane that lines the small intestines, par.
ticuarly in that part called the 'duodenum,
secretes an acid substance which, passing
into the general circulation, stimulates the
liver the pancreaS. the bile secretons ana
the functions of the great intestine itself.
'How?"
"By stimulating the contractile power of
the great intestine" replied the Paris doc
tor. "You see the bearing of III NOT only
does this natural secretion OF the duooe-
mum (when all goes welD lncite the hVer
and the pancreas to secrete more richly liie
juices useful to digestion, but it also stlmu-
lates directly that precious function whose
torpidity is the torment of half the clvlilZeo
human race the despair of neurasthencs
and the nightmare OF two-thiros oi our
womenr ,.-I..o.x,oo,,
"Of course you have given, 1t name!
Secretion =Fc
..rbe natural secretion?a Certainly. 1t
has been named secretine and IT'S lack' o'
martial driving up, or deterioration of quail
fty, causes what we now call "lntes'ihai
dyspepsia, that desolating thing which mas
been called throughout tnet AGES cAioiito
"I see that it is great, physiolog cal
discovery 1 said. "All you need to pTont
bv If is to find way to start up. naturally,
of
which you have named secretine
Exactly DR.. Enriquez and .Halllon ar
eued thus: If a way can be found 10 sum-
ulate this natural secretion, we can sup
press the intestinal dyspepsia. simple
and efficacious means would be TO br1ng
into contact with the mucous membrane oi
the duodenum in particular and small IN
testines in general, some acid substance
to wake up, by its presence, the intestinal
functions.
substance" / said.
'sAnd have it get lost in the stomach!
No a way must be found TO pass the acd
substance intact through the stomach. Or.
EnriqueZ has hit on 1t very simply he
! envelops a dose of tartarie acid in thick
capsule of gluten, which Is a substance re-
fractory to digestion in an acid medium,
but which is easily attacked in an alkaline
medium"
''EIc gives the sufferer doses of tartaric
acid enveloped in a thicks capsule OF
gluten" repeated, to fix IT IN my memory.
"These capsules of gluten, thus, pass
through the gastric digestion intact. with
out letting loose their contents into the
stomach you see?'
Perfectly
Acid is Let Loose
while as soon as they arrive in the
duodenum, which is the beginning of the
small intestine just below the stomach
they get digested by the pancreatic juice,
which they contain in contact with the
mucous membrane of the small intestines' -
ut is strange you have not found a new
name for our old acquaintance, tartaric
acid, now become indeed the friend OF
man, 1 said Il seem to rememher the
tartar aperientS of America neyarthe-
leSS?"
Yes but they never passed the
stomach" replied the French doctor 'No:e
that there may be half dozen substances
in the pharmacopoeia that will make up
the newly discovered and altogether pre-
cious secretion of the duodenum on which
freedom from intestinal dyspepsia is now
known to depend. l have told you that the
secretion itself has been named secretne,
and you are right about our having given
new name to tartaric acid AS used for
this purpose it is called eusecretine. You
see why? Secretine is the newly discovered
natural secretion of the duodenum- The
prefix ECU" is a Greek remnant signifying
well" just as "dys' signifies IN" A
dyspeptic is man whose .'peptcs' func-
ton i'll. and "eu-peptic' is one whose
pepttcs function well. 1t is good work,
though it has had hard luck both in French
and English
In English. surely" l admitted 1--WE
don know 1t. But we know what dyspep-
sia is Ee-. -.
Better Days Coming.
"One of these days You will know eupep-
sia of stomach and intestiues better: the