The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-14
Why Does NOT
The Stomach
Digest Itself I?
An UnsoIyabIe Problem, Which Has
Puzzled Physicians of All Schools.

A Trial Package of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets Sent Free.
There seems to be no logical reason
why the stomach should not digest It
self when We consider the fact that it
secretes digestive fluids and acids
which are powerful enough to disinte-
CRATE and digest meats, eggs, fruits,
cereals, vegetables and other forms OF
food taken into it.
In animals which were killed while
in full digestion the stomach has I'M
dergone 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 intestines.
The question naturally presents it
self: what protects the stomach from
self-digestion during life?" DR.. Hun
Ter declared that the principle of life
in living things protected this organ
from being digested by its own fluids,
but DR.. Barnard successfully demon
strated that the hind legs of a living
frog, when introduced through a fis-
tula or artificial opening into the stom-
ach of a dog, undergoes complete di-
gestion, and DIR. Pavy, through SINH
lar experiment, found that the same
was true of a rabbits ear.
While the normal stomach Is i'm
mune from self-digestion, there are
many cases on record, however, in
which a long-standing gastritis, and
perverted digestion, has completely
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membrane lining of the stomach, and
in some instances has engendered gas
trio ulcer, which ate its way clear
through the stomach wall, and caused
a fatal peritonitis.
In all cases of perverted function OF
the stomach, which manifests itself by
the numerous well-known symptoms
of indigestion and dyspepsia, Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets act as corrective,
restoring it to normal condition, ton
ing up the secretory glands, as well
as the tactical glands, which absorb the
food, and at the same time assisting
the stomach in the process of diges-
ton, and preventing all possibility of
such conditions arising as will cause
perverted function, gastritis, gastric
ulcer, or the eating away of the mu-
cous membrane Of the stomach.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are ex-
ceedingly powerful digestives, single
grain being sufficient to digest 5000
grains of food, including meats, vege-
tables, cereals, etc. They digest al
bumenous and starchy foods equally
well. Whenever the stomach is in a
weakened condition, and so lacking in
tone, that it furnishes an insufficient
amount of gastric juice, such symp-
toms as heartburn, biliousness, head
ache, belching of gas and sour eructa-
| tons are sure to appear, and make
one feel generally miserable.
Such symptoms can, however, be
| overcome and done away with at once.
Simply take one or two of Stuart S
Dyspepsia Tablets and forget all about
your digestive troubles. They do their
work promptly and thoroughly, every
particle of food being completely di.
| gested, and fermentation, decomposi
ton, and fiatulence and heaviness in
stomach after eating, relieved and
cured. Purchase a box from your
druggist today, price 80 cents. Also
send us your name and address fol-
free sample. Address F. A. Stuart Co.
100 Stuart Bldg, Marshall, Mich.