The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-05
CURE ron LOYE.
tnrOken Hearts blade EyFhnie Agsin By
Modern clAeailstry.

HAL1pJuf AuDN1AAt - -.
The gray, haired. spectanled young physi-
illogical chemist completed q queer stunt
be had been doing on q fragment Of mush-
room With anhydroua and alcohol ,free
ethsr ID . Soxhlet extractor. sighed with
relief, lighted q big German porcelain pipe.
perched himself on q desk in the deserted
lecture room and spoke.
"Gollyis-a rumtnative puR-pufing-NI
never thought that I and my test tubes
and preoipitatea and other stuff would
ever be called In to help cure cases Of love-
sickness. Yes, sir; hearts broken by ma
licious shots Of Cupid have been mended
by me, or rather through my advice.
sFinny role for science, eh2 But why
not? II science Ia TO be worth anything
It must be Of help In practical life. although
INV colleagues would consider me o hereto
for that opinion-the chumpsl'
Pn-pu6-puh-pun-f-f Tho gray to-
baooo smoke twirled forth. lending q new
! odor to the atmosphere, already saturated
"a with the combined chemical resultant
of the combination Of a score Of drug stores
with the bottles u~nstopped. His big. owl
like eyes, immensely magnihed by the
lenses Of his spectacles. peerod solemnly
at the reporter.
well, but the storyf'
"oh, yes, the storyi Quite a simple one.
yet odd-and very modern. my boy. You
know / make analyses here Of all manner
OF things for people who have the price.
Last week / was visited by a physician
who oonduots-a-hi high class -sanitarii1m not
far from New York. Place for women,
you know for wealthy ne~urasthenics.
"The physician wanted to as certain why
two Of his patients failed to assimilate
their putriment. As I do In all such cases
I inquired into their history.
1.-TWO unhappy women, young and fair
presumably. for / never met tho ladies.
Two sad stories Of love. One was q wife
deserted by @ rapsoallion husband. with
out whom-had she only thought 20 she
was far better of. But the trouble was
that she did not think 30. The other was
q girl disappointed because some young firt
Of q boy had married another. Common
cases. you see.
Il found that the failure to assimiIate
nutriment was due to the fact that there
had been no flow Of hydroohlorio acid
In the alimentary tract Of either Of the pa
TENTS. The physician said that they were
moping and pining themselves to death,
literally wasting away. Medicine was use
less, Il seemed; food they did not digest;
they were dying. az the old phrase run
Of broken hearts.
And Just why2 For this reason-mark
Il well-their mental state was accountable
for what Is called inhibition Of certain CLAN
duIar actions controlling the how Of ny
droohlorio acid. Pyschical influences, In
other words. ruled their bodily functions
and this is q principle that to-day 10 becom-
log widely recognized and assumes moro
and more Importance In the treatment Of
cases Of malnutrition.
"For instance, suppose you are q 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
~preoccupation and worry inhibits. hat b
to say actually prevents. the how Of certain
necessary gastric juices needed to digest
what you eat.
Therefore you don't digest it, hence
trouble of q greater or Lesser degree; pro-
g~ressive trouble. too. IL you don't change
your ways and eat only when you are
tranquil. only when you are happy, II you
can compass happiness. That g old.
that difficult quest: the search for happinessi
Puff puff- puff-f-n
Il said to the physician. says !: Give 'em
hydrochloric acid after meals. about 30
much He did 90. Result: the heart
broken ladies began 10 digest their food,
AS their bodies. received nourishment
some Of the strain on the mind caused by
malnutriton was, eased; consequently
three was less morbidity. less gloom; this
betterment Of physical condition removed
the inhibition Of glandular function. the
bodily hy~drochlorio acid flowed again;
that gIeat specific. Time aided the good
cause. and in due course Of n the
heartbroken. lovesiok patients recovered
tone and went out again into the world.
do you know / feel rather proud Of that
jobf But I wonder. / wonder what the
young women would say IL they knewi
Have I sullied the romance Of lover Well
I say no; love, like all other things human.
viii be the better for the light Of truth
and that light shines from the workshops
Of science. my boy, Yesl'
The big eyes glAred with portentous
solemnity through the spectaoles and
through the gray tobacco smoke in the dingy
lecture room. Puff-pun went the physo-
logical chemist.