The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-12
Why Does Not
The Stomach
Digest Itself?
An Unsolvable Problem, Which
Has Puzzled Ply ysicians of
All Schools.
A Trial Package Of Stuart s Dyspepsia
Tablets Sent Free.

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There seems TO be no logical reason
whv the stomach should not digest IT.
self when we consider the fact that il
sccrctcs digestive fluids and acids
which are powerful enough 10 disinte-
gratc and digest meats, eggs, fruits
cereals, vegetables and other forms OF
food taken into 1T.
In animals which were killed while
in full digestion the stomach has un.
dergonc complete self digestion after
death. when the body was kept warm
and in human beings who have died
suddenly, while digestion was going
on IT. was found at the autopsy that
not only had the stomach been digest
ed. but also the liver. pancreas, spleen,
and portions Of the intcstncs.
The question naturally presents it
self, 'What protects the stomach from
self digestion during lifc:H DR., Hunter
declared that the ''principlc of life
in living things protected this organ
from being digested by its own fluids,
but DR.. Barnard successfully demon
strsted tnat the hind legs of n living
frog. when introduced through a fstula
or artificial opening into the stomach of
r dog undergoes complete digestion, and
Dr. PaVy. through similar experiment,
found that the same was truc of rab-
BIT IS ear.
While the normal stomach is immune
from self digestion, there are many
cases on record however, in which Il
long standing gastritis, and perverted
digestion, has completely digcsted or
eaten away the mucous membrane lin
ing of the stomach, and in some IN
stances has engcndcred gastric ulcer,
which ate its way clear through the
stomach wall. and caused fatal peri
tonitis.
In all cases of perverted function of
the stomach, which maufeSts itself by
tho numerous well known symptoms OF
Indigestion and dyspepsia, Stuart S Dys-
pepsfa Tablets, act as a corrective. re-
storing it TO a normal condition. non
ing up the secrctory glands. as we'll
rs the tactical glands, which absorb the
food. and at The same time assisting
the stomach in the process of digestion,
and preventing all possibility Of such
conditions arising as Will cnusc per
verted function, gastritIs, gastric III
Ger, or the eating away of the mucous
membrane Of the stomach.
Stuart IS Dyspepsia Tablets arc cx.
ceedinglv powerful digestives, 4 single
grain being sufficient 10 digest 5000
grains OF food, including meats, vege-
tables, cereals, etc They digest al.
luminous and starcbv foods equally
well. Whenever the stomach is in a
weakened condition. and so lacking in
tone, that il furnishes an insufficient
Of gastric Juice, such symptoms
as heartburn, biliouSncss, headache.
bclchiug Of gas and sour cructations
are sure TO appear, and make one feel
generally miserable
Such symptoms can, however, be over
come and done away with at once
Simply take one or two of Stuart s
Dyspepsia Tablets and forget all about
vour digestive troubles They do their
work promptly and thoroughly, every
particle Of food being completely di
gestcd, ande fermentation. decomposi
lion, and ilatulence and hcavinMss in
stomach after eating, relieved and
cured, Purchase box from your
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