The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
DEFECTIVE DIGESTION
Is Responsible for Many Dangerous
Diseases-A Vigorous Stomach is
the Great Natural Safeguard.

Few people seem to be aware of the
dangers of weak, defective and disor-
dered digestion. Health reports do not
give it as a cause of death because
some other disease sets in to work de-
structive changes, only made possible
by the imperfect digestion, and death
is credited to them.
Typhoid fever is credited with many
deaths, yet were digestion always per-
feet there would be no typhoid fever.
Doctors call typhoid ''enteric," mean
ing bowel fever. It is due to q germ
that in food or drink is swallowed. It
reaches the bowel only by way of the
stomach. It cannot live in the secre-
tons of a vigorous stomach. Normal
gastric juice would destroy and digest
it. If the stomach is weak and in
active disease germs may succeed in
passing on into the bowel, in the Sc
cretions of which they thrive, and we
suffer from the diseases that they en-
gender. Thus a good digestion is a
great safeguard against disease by de-
stroying dangerous germs that in food
and water enter the body through the
stomach.
Consumption is credited with nearly
one-sixth of the deaths of adult per-
sons. No account is made in the NOR
tality reports of the fact that the
Chronic starvation" due to dyspepsia
had so weakened the half-fed tissues
and reduced their vital force and power
of resistance as to predispose to the
ravages of consumption.
Fevers due to toxines or Dtomaines
developed in the body from putrefac-
tive changes in rotting, half-digested
food are credited with many deaths.
No thought seems to be given to the
fact that dyspepsia was the real cause.
People do not seem to realize that i'm
perfectly digested food putrifies, de-
composes, ferments and develops Pc
culiar poisons that are absorbed into
the blood, causing dangerous fevers,
poisoning tissues and overtaxing those
organs that have to eliminate it.
Every organ and tissue of the body
depends on the stomach for nourish-
ment and renewal that will prepare it
to perform satisfactorily it's function
and resist disease. A strong digestion
means good, rich blood; good blood
means a strong, well-no1rished body,
capable of resisting disease.
Dyspepsia or indigestion is a COM
mon complaint There is hardly dis
ease that is not attended with or com
pIicated by impaired digestion. DIR.
Alternately, a noted English physician,
once said: 'tNine-tenths of all diseases
come from the stomach There are
many cases of i'll health of which i'm
perfect digestion is the unsupported
cause. Often the prominent symptoms
of dyspepsia, as gastric goneness, feel
ing of weight in the stomach, digestive
discord or gastro-intestinal turmoil,
boating or distention of the stomach.
belching of wind, sour or Watery
risings vomiting after food, etc, are
lacking; but there are other symptoms
not usually attributed to dyspepsia.
There may be headaches, sleeplessness,
generally ''played-out' feelings, nerv-
BUSINESS and depression, oppression
about the heart, loss of flesh, a run
down condition hard to account for:
and many vague, iIl-defined or obscure
symptoms that are really due to de-
fective digestion.
There are many remedies on the
market for impaired or diverted diges-
ton, but none are SO economical, so
safe, so effective, so popular as Stuart s
Dyspepsia Tablets. Whether the dys-
pepsia is of long standing or is merely