The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-24
FATE AIMSAT men IN
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Cooper Discusses Grave Danger
in Lives of Local
Firemen
Stomach Man" Considers the
Lives of Police and Railroad
men Also Unhealthy

ITS strange how the real dangers
They are the little things you never
notice A man can risk his life a
dozen times week in way that cur
dies your blood. and never get
scratched. Then he steps on a tack
some day in house cleaning time, and
it's all up with him.
The young Cooper stomach man"
was in a philosophical mood when in
terviewed last night. All day yester-
day his headquarters at the Owl drug
store in the Phelan building were
crowded with people eager to hear
more about his original theories on
health. In the evening he was asked
what impressed him most in his expert
ence here and in the east He said:
THE strangest thing is that it seems
to be the people who make their liv-
ing by risking their lives who are
in most danger from the little things
they never notice. An astonishing
number of persons who have consulted
me about their health do the most
dangerous work daily.
81 have decided that the real danger
in being a fireman, railroadman, or q
soldier isn't the kind we think of at
first. My experience shows, and sta
tistics agree, that it isn't burning
buildings that kill the most firemen-
it's eating irregularly. And conductors
and brakemen are not in half a much
danger from wrecks as they are from
the quick lunches and cold meals
they have to eat.
Seems funny at first, but it's cold
fact. Hundreds of men in these occu-
pations have been treated by me. and
hundreds more feel miserable all the
time and don't know what is wrong.
You can dodge falling beam, wrecks
don't happen so often; but if you've
got a hastily bolted meal lying in
stomach that isn't able to take care of
it, you've got a poison factory going
right where 1t will do the most harm.
There isn't any getting away from it.
THE human stomach in good healthy
condition will stand most anything.
The trouble is that most persons have
theirs all out of order before they know
it. Even then hundreds don't know
what's wrong. They drag through life.
feeling out of sorts and having head
aches and pains here and there.
There's no limit to the harm done
by a stomach that turns your food into
poison instead of nourishment. My be-
lief that 50 per cent of all i'll health
10 CduScQ ny SlOIldCu SIOWS
stronger every day. Blood poisoned
this way causes all kinds of blood dis
ease, the nerves may go TO smash:
poisonous matter breaking out through
the skin makes skin troubles. Rheu-
matism sometimes results.
And the odd thing is. as 1 say, that
policemen, firemen and railroadmen es-
pecially, seem to find their most real
danger in their habits of eating"
Cooper is certainly right there" said
A. G. Searcy, well known member
of the San Francisco fire department
I've been in some pretty tight places,
but 1t was really stomach trouble that
did me up. I had 1t bad for % years
Doctors said it was catarrh of the
stomach and 1 spent thousands of dol
lars altogether trying to get rid of it.
/ never seemed to get much better,
though, till 1 talked with the stomach
man His treatment is certainly won
derful. 1 feel fine now. like new man
It's great to be able to eat what 1 want
to again without any trouble. I know
good many men who are bothered
more or less like 1 was, and 1 shall
tell them to. try Cooper He did won
ders for me-"