, 1906-03-19
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENTS
AND STUDIES ON THE STOMACH.
How To Eat Properly.

Not long ago Horace Fletcher pub
lished q book called 1.-THE A, b, u, of Our
Own Nutrition" in which he advocated,
UDo right the feeding of your body;
Nature will do all the rest for you
Alright" After a dozen years of uninter-
rupted experiments upon himself and
upon dogs, cats and other 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
one-third as much and masticating it
ever more thoroughly than by Glad
stones famous thirty-two bites of each
mouthful, a person is assured of unfailing
health, strength, contentment and lon
gevity. In a word, he will have annihil-
ated the chief cause of all disease-indi-
gestion. Mr.. Fletcher conducted expert
ments at Yale and Cambridge Universi-
ties, and made tests under the auspices
of the United States Army. As a result
of his experiments he advocates that
people should ignore false appetite and
wait for a return of normal appetite,
particular simple food, accompanied by
a watering of the mouth-all OF which is
good advice, but a great many Ameri-
cans, both men Inc women, are thin, pale
and puny, with poor circulation, because
| they 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, office or
factory, and In consequence the stomach
must be treated in a natural way before
they can rectify 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 a result fatigue comes early, is eX-
IRENE and lasts long. The demand for
nutritive 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 1t certain others. 1t is neces-
sary to prepare the stomach for the work
of taking up from the lood 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
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
and i~nvigorating effect upon the stomach
and blood. These are: Golden Seal root,
Queens root, Stone root, Bloodroot,
Mandrake root. Then there Is Black
Cherrybark. The medicinal principles
residing in these native roots when
extracted with glycerine as a solvent
makes the most reliable n efficient
stomach tonic and liver i~nyigorator.
Where there is bankrupt ~vitality--sqch
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
Clycerine in combination, or as a solvent,
and usually the doctors prescriptions
called for the ingredients in varying
amounts, Nth alcohol.
Nearly forty years ago, DR.. Pierce
found that chemically pure glycerine, OF
nroper strength, was best for extracting
the medicinal properties from these roots
and that It gave added value to a tonic
compound in restoring tone and vigor tc
the entire system without tho detrimen