The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-30
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENTS
And STUDIES ON TIT. STOMACH.
How To Eat Properly
BY DIR. VALENTINE.

Not long ago Horace Fletcher pub
fished a book called .The A, b, Il, OF Our
Own Nutrition,' ins which he advocated,
w,Do right the feeding, OF your body;
Nature will do all the rest for you
Alright" After 9 dozen years OF s nainter,
upon dogs, cats and otner animals, Mr..
Horace Fletcher concludes that the aver
age human being eats three times as much
as is good for him; that by eating only
moro as tharonohlV than bV Glad
stones famous thirty-twO bites of each
mouthful a person is assured of unfailing
health, strength, contentment and lon
geyity. In a word, he will have annihil-
ated the chief cause of all diseaSe-lndl-
cestion. Mr. Fletcher conducted expert
ments at Yale and Cambridge Uniyersi-
ties, and made tests under the auspices
Z OF the United States Army. AS a result
people should ignore false appetite and
wait for a return of normal appetite,
which Is indicated by a desire for some
particular simple food, accf0,mpa me oy
. watering OF the mouth7ah OF whicn IS
good advice, but a great many Ameri-
dams. both men and women, are thin, pale
and Duny. with poor circulat ton, because
thew have already ill-treated their stom-
achs by hasty eating or too much eating,
by consuming alcoholic beverages. .or by
too close confinement to home, othce or
factory, and in consequence the stomach
must be treated in a natural way before
thew can rectfy their earlier mistakes.
The muscles in many such people, in
every weary, thin and thin-blooded per-.
son, do their work with great difficulty.
AS result fatigue comes early, is ex-
IRENE and lasts long, The demand for
nr1tritive aid is ahead of the supply: 10
insure perfect health every tissue, bone,.
. oh np1JH fo "
from the blood certai materials and
return to it certain others; 1t is neces-
sary to prepare the stomach for the work
Of taking I'D from the food what Is
necessary to make good, rich. red blood.
We must go to Nature for the remedy,
There we're certain roots known to the
Indians of this country before the advent
of the whites which later came to the
knowledge of the settlers and which are
now growing rapidly in professional
favor for the cure of obstinate stomach
and liver troubles. These are found to
be safe and yet certain in their cleansing
aud blood These are: Golden Seal root,
Queens root, Stone root, Bloodroot,
Mandrake root. Then there is. Black
CherrybarlS The medicinal principles
residing in these native roots when
extracted with glycerine as a solvent
makes the most reliable and efficient
stomach tonic and liver ,invigorator.
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. g.. Il ~~:
Although some physicians were aware
of the high medicinal value of the above
mentioned plants. yet few have used pure
! glycerine in combination, or as a solvent,
and usually the doctors prescriptions
called for Fthe ingredients in varying
amounts, 1Uitt alcohol. .. ~
Nearly forty years ago, DR., Pierce
found that chemically pure glycerine: O.
proper strength, was best for extracting
and that it gave added value to a tonic
compound in restoring tone and vigor t.
the entire system without the ydetrimen