Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-22
(Adv).
Do GERMS CAUSE
RHEUMATIC PANGS
Fastener Denies Bacill Are Re-
SponsibIe for Dread
Disease.
SCOUTS THE EUROPEAN IDEA
Pure. Healthy Blood aud Pains Of
Joints Never Present
Together.

DO germs cause rheumatism?
The new European theory which
blames bacilli for the aches, and pains
aud twinges of rheumatism Is receiving
many hard jolts in the United states.
Medical circles from Berlin To London
are being rent asunder by the discus
sion Of this subject American savauts,
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 journals about
this germ theory; but ! want 70 say
that so far as my experience goes !
take very little stock in a. ] do not
claim to he infallfb'e. nor the only man
Ia America or the world With any
brains. but American scientists arc
standing as unit IN this matter.
stomach trouble has been my study
for many years, and have Introduced
my medicine for this complaint al over
the United States with really remark
able success. But although my remo-
dies are primarily to regulate the stOn-
ach I have found that through purify
ing the blood they have been wonder
fully effective in Graduating rheuma-
tism. This proves to me. At least that
rheumatism results from uric acid IN
the blood ! have yet 70 sec man
with a stomach In perfect condition
who suffered from rheumatism. The
stomach manufactures the blood When
food disests properly the blood is pure.
healthy. and rich in life sustaining ele-
ments. Disease cannot exist where the
blood is pure. But give me stomach
that has been weakened by overload
ing. irregular meal hours, or other
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thin blood throughout the whole body.
The stomach becomes iniiamed and
coated with catarrhal eXcretiOns. Food
ferments. decays-literany rOts-and
poison Is pumped into the blood and
spreads throughout the whole system.
Uric acid forms. and chaiky deposits
collect at the bone joints. Then the SUI
ferer who I'm the beginning had nothlng
more serious than stomach trouble hnds
he is the victim Of chronic rheumatism.
Ind only the person i'm the clutch Of
this dread disease knows what a hell on
earth Il makes OF life.
But rheumatism is not the only dis
order that is bound 20 result sooner or
later from stomach trouble. Head
aches. dizziness, kidney and liver trou-
bic, paIpitation Of the heart, constipa-
ton. dysentery, foul breath, gas belch-
ing and intense pain IN the intesunes
all follow in the wake Of stomach trou-
BILE"
one Of CoOpers callers Saturday was
A. NJ. Lupton Of 1929 Lincoln street
Salt Lake city. He said
Il want TO say for this stomach man
that he has the most remarkable sys-
tenn OF treatment / have ever expert
cnced. have been suffering from rheu-
matism for % years. During the last
eight wears I have also had catarrh OF
the stomach In an aggravated form.
tried many remedies and spent thou
sands of dollars with physicians with
out a particle OF relief. Then / took
Cooper's treatment and now l am
well man"
The stomach man" was interviewed
al Smiths Busy Corner drug store
Main and Second South streets lie
said:
Il am glad 70 know that my treat
ment has helped MIR. Lupton. IL simply
tends To bear out what ] say-that very
frequently rheumatism and stomach
trouble go together, and that by remoN-
ing one we get rid Of the other.