The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-22
DO GERMS CAUSE
RHEUMATIC PANGS?
Fastener Denies BaCiIIi Are
Responsible for Dread
Disease.
SCOUTS EUROPEAN IDEA
GOOD BLOOD AND PAINS OF
JOINTS NEVER MEET.
SCOUTS EUROPEAN IDEI
Do germs cause rheumatism?

10 germs cause rheumatism?
The new European theory which
biames bacilh for the aches and pains
and twinges of rheumatism is receiv-
ing many hard jolts in the United
states. Medical circles from Berlin to
London are being rent asunder by the
discussion of this subject. American
savants, however, openly scout the
| idea.
Uric acid in the blood is the cause
of rheumatism said the Cooper stOm-
ach man, the eastern expert who is
now in Salt Lake. Il have read a
great deal in the foreign medical jour
nails about this germ theory, but l
want to say that, so far as my expert
ence goes, l take very little stock in
1t. ] do not claim to be infallible, nor
the only man in America or the world
with any brains, but American scien-
lists are standing as a unit in this
matter.
Stomach trouble has been my study
Tor many years, and I have introduced
my medicine for this complaint all
over the United States with really re-
markable success. But although my
remedies are primarily to regulate the
stomach, l have found that, through
purifying the blood, they have been
wonderfully effective in graduating
rheumatism.
This proves to me, at least, that
rheumatism results from uric acid in
the blood. I have yet to see a man
with a stomach in perfect condition
who suffered from rheumatism. The
stomach manufactures the blood.
When food digests properly the blood
IS pure, healthy and rich in life-sus-
tanning elements. Disease cannot exist
where the blood is pure. But give me a
stomach 10,
overlooking, irregular meal hours, or
other abuse, and there you will find
weak, thin blood throughout the whole
body. The stomach becomes infiamed
and coated with catarrhal excretions
Food ferments, decays-iiterally rots-
and poison is pumped into the blood
ana spreads throughout the whole sys-
TEN. Uric acid forms. and chalky de-
posts collect at the bone joints. Then
the sufferer who in the beginning had
nothing more serious than stomach
trouble finds he is the victim of
chronic rheumatism. And only the
person in the clutch of this dread dis
ease knows what a hell on earth it
makes of life.
But rheumatism is not the only dis
order that is bound to result sooner or
later from stomach trouble. Head
aches, dizziness, kidney and liver
trouble palpltatlOn Of the heart con-
supation, dysentery, foul breath. gas
belching and intense pain in the in
testines all follow in the wake of stom-
ach trouble"
One Of Cooper's callers Saturday was
A. NJ. LuptOn of 1929 Lincoln street
salt Lake City. He said:
I want to say for this stomach
man that he has the most rernarIa bic
system of treatment 1 have ever exneri-
enced. I have been suffering from
rheumatism for % years. During the
last eight years I have also had ca
tarrh of the stomach in an Aggravated
form. 1 tried many remedies and spent
thousands of dollars with physicians
without a particle of relief Then 7
took Cooper's treatment and now am
a well man."
The stomach man" was interviewed
at Smith's Busy Corner drug store
Main and Second South strets. He
said:
1 am glad to know that nv treat
ment has helped Mr.. Lupton. 1t sim
ply tends to bear out what I sav-that
very frequently rheumatism and storm
ach trouble go together, and that bv
removing one we get rid of the Other