The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-02
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENTS
AND STUDIES ON THE STOMACH.
How 10 Tcat Properly,
BY DIR. VALENTINE.

!. set long ago Horace Fletcher pub
sshed book called The A. B. n. OF Our
Own Nutrition in which he advocated,
po right the feeding OF your body;
Nature will do all the rest for YOU
arlght.7 After dozen years Of uninter-
Iupted experiments upon himself and
hron dpgA cats and other animals. Mr.
aoraro Fletcher concludes that the aver
age human being eats three times as much
Hs ~ good for him that by eating only
one-third as much and masticatfnR It
even more thoroughly than by Glad
stones famous thlrty-two bites OF each
meNtnfGl, person Is assured OF unfailing
nealth, strength, contentment and lon
gevity; In word, he will have annihil.
%een the chief cause Of all disease -indi-
gestlon. MT. Fletcher conducted expert
ments at Yale and Cambridge Uniyersi-
ues, and made tests under the auspices
q the United States Army. AS result
0f naS experiments he advocates that
people should ignore false appetite and
walt Tor a return of normal appetite
winch IS Indicated by desire for some
particular simple food. accompanied by
2 watering of the nlouth.-all OF which is
gooa ADVICE, but q great many Amcri-
cans, Doth men and women, are thin, pale
and puny. with poor circulation, because
Shey nave already ill-treated their storn-
Schs by hasty eating or too much eating,
0y consuming alcoholic beverages. or by
TOO close confinement to home, office or
factory, and IN consequence the stomach
must be treated in a natural way before
kney can rectlfy their earlier mistakes.
Ahe muscles N many such people, in
every weary, tifin and thin-bl0oded per-
ace, do their work with great difficulty.
As result fatigue comes early, Ia en-
IRENE and lasts long. The demand for
putritive aid is ahead of the supply. To
Insure perfect health every tissue bone,
nerve, tendon or muscle should take
from the blood certain materials and
return to it certain others. II is necee
sary 70 prepare the stomach for the work
Of taking up from the food what Is
necessary to make good. rich. red blood.
We must go TO Nature for the remedy,
which shall be simple but effective
There were certain roots known To the
AndianS OF this country before the advent
pt the whites which later came to the
Knowledge Of the settlers and which are
NOW growing rapidly in professional
fayor Tor the cure OF obstinate stomach
and liver troubles. These are found to
be safe and yet certain IN their cleansing
and invigorating effect upon the stomach
aud blood. These are: Golden Seal root,
queens root, Stone root, Bloodroot
Mandrake root Then there ia Black
Cherry bark. The medicinal principles
residing In these native roots when
extracted with glycerlne as solvent
makes the most reliable and efficient
stomach tonic aud liver invieorator.
Where there is bankrupt vitality-such
as exhaustion bad nutrition--and thin
blood the body acquires vigor and the
nerves. blood and all the tissues feel the
favorable effect.
Although some physicians were aware
OF the high medicinal value Of the above
mentioned plants, yet few have used pure
gycerine in combination. or as solvent,
and usually the doctors prescriptions
called for the ingredients in varying
amounts, Nth alcohol.
Nearly forty years ago, DIR. Pierce
found that chemically pure glycerine. OF
proper strength, was best for extracting
the medicinal properties from these roots
and thai it gave added value to a tonic
compound in restoring tone and viEor to
che entire system without the detrimen-