The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-25
A CURE FOR Love.
Broken Hearts Made Whole
Again ny Chemistry.

The gray-haired. specialized young
physiological chemist completed a
queer stunt he had been doing on a
fragment of mushroom with anhyd-
rous and alcohol free ether in a SoX-
hlet extractor, sighed with relief,
lighted big German porcelain pine,
perched himself on a desk In the de-
serted lecture room and spoke.
"Gony!"--a ruminative puff-pufling
- never Thought that | and my test
tubes and precipitates and other stun
would ever be called in to help cure
cases Of love-sickness. Yes, sir,
hearts broken by malicious shots OF
Cupid have been mended by me, or
rather through my advice.
Funny role for science, en- But
why not? If science is to be worth
anything IL must be OF help IN prac-
teal life, although my colleagues
would consider me a hereto for that
opinion-~the chumps,'
Pff-puff-puff-f-f, The gray to-
bacco smoke twifled forth, lending
new odor to the atmosphere, az
ready saturated as with the combined
chemical resultant OF the combination
OF a score Of drug stores with the bot
Ties unstopped. His big, owllike eyes.
immensely magnfied by the lenses OF
his spectacles, peered solemnly at the
reporter.
tfXtToU brf tha st0rv9'
"Oh, yes, the story! Quite a SIM
pie one, yet odd and very modern,
my boy You know | make analyses
here Of all manner OF things for peo-
pie who have the price Last week
was visited by physician who con
ducts high class sanitarium not
far from New York. Place for wom-
en-, you know; for wealthy neuras-
themes
1.-THE physician wanted to ascertain
why two Of his patients failed to as
simulate their nutriment As | do in
all such cases inquired into their
history
Two unhappy women, young and
fair presumably. for | never met the
ladies'. TWO sad stories Of love One
was a wife deserted by rapscallion
husband without whomhad she
only thought so-she was far better
of. But the trouble was that she
did not think so The other was a
girl disappointed because some young
firt of a boy had married another.
Common cases. you see.
Il found that the failure to assimi.
late nutriment was due to the fact
that there had been no flow Of hydro.
chloric acid in the alimentary tract
Of either of the patients. The physi-
clan said that they were mOping and
pining themselves to death literally
wasting away Medicine was useless,
it seemed food they did not digest;
they were dying, as the old phrase
runs, Of broken hearts.
"And just why9 Fer this reason
mark 1t well--their mental state was
accountable for what is called inhibi-
ton OF certain glandular actions con
trolling the flow Of hydrochloric acid.
Pyschical Influences, in other words,
ruled their bodily functions and this
Is principle that to-day is becoming
widely recognized and assumes more
and more Importance in the treat
ment of cases OF malnutrition.
For instance, suppose you are a
business man worried by some matter
or other, and you rush out TO your
lunch, anxious only to eat and get
back to your desk. Your preoccupa-
ton and worry inhibits. that is to say
actually prevents, the Cow of certain
necessary gastric juices needed to
digest what you eat.
Therefore you don't digest it,,
hence trouble of greater or lesser
degree: progressive trouble too, ii
you don't change your ways and eat
only when you are Tranquil. only when
you are happy. if you can compass
happiness That age old. that diff
cult quest; tile search for happinessl
Puff-puf.puR9-f!
Il said to the physician, says J.;
Give em hydrochloric acid after
meals. about so much, He did so.
Result: The heart ke1 ladies be-
cas 10 li.cs their esd
"h their bodies received nourish-
ment some Of the strain on the mind
caused by malnutrition was eased;
consequently there was less morbid
ity. less gloom; this betterment Of
nhysioal condition removed the inhibi-
ton of glandular function. the bodilf
bydrochloric acid flowed again; that
great specific Time aided the good
cause. and in due course of events the
heartbrokcn. lovesick patients recov-
cred tone and went out again into the
world.
DO you know feel rather proud Of
that Job? But / wonder. wonder
what the young women would say if
hey knew, Have I sullied the ro-
nance Of love? Wen. I say no; love.
Ike all other things human. will be
the better for the light of truth-and
that light shines from the workshops
Of science, my boy. Yesi"
The big eyes glared with portentous
solemnity through the spectacles and
through the gray tobacco smoke in
the dingy lecture room. Pud-puff went
the physiological chemist