Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-03

ing glycogen into other forms of sugar
when the body needs them.
This function OF the liver has much
to do with the production Of energy and
the making Of heat. as we'll as with
the general nourishment of the body.
1t is now we'll known that after tho
gastric juice has converted a piece OF
beef steak into peptones it is necessary
n a somewher in h body these pep
tones be converted into amino acids,
ana some of them finally into urea.
With this work the liver has to do.
in time 1T will be found that
the liver has several other functions.
In the ordinary work of keeping we'll
zen, the only function of the liver hat
IS given any thought is its bile secret
ing junction. And most of the accept
ed ideas on that subject are wrong.
1 am sure the idea is general that a
man mn his sh9 3;,ld, take ha something to touch
mas malaria he will not get much eff
feet from quinine until he has stimu-
lated his liver or got the bile out of his
system.
To do this 1t is customary to take
calomel. One Ole time patient Of mine
who periodically appeared for his horse
medicine, always called for a teaspoon
full of calomel. He did not get 1t. but
ne got a horse dose.
Ihere. is no proof that calomel slim
piates the secretion of bile. or gets the
bile out of the system, or touches the
liver. Any laxative which empties the
intestlnes and rids the blood vessels of
the abdominal cavity OF several pints
OF water will promote the absorption of
Qulnlne or anything else which Is SUBJ
sequently taken. For this purpose calo-
mel is about as good as any other laxa-
tive. but no better.
10 empty completely the large intes-
eine IRON beginning to end 1t may %
as good as castor oil. but it is no bet
ter. To drain quarts of fluid from the
overfull structure of the abdomen II
may be as good as q dose of salts. but
it Is no better.
People who lead very sedentary lives
are prone to become bilious periodical
y. Delicious food, Hastily prepared,
tempts them to o~verindulgence. At the
same time the cost of such food ties
them to long hours to the desk to earn
the price.
Eating Is addition; out OF doors ex-
erclse Is subtraction. Day by day ub-
urac!lon n a little behind addition
untll after a period the addition COL
umn Is so much the longer that we
develop a condition which we call bill
iousness.
Nobody knows the chemistry of bill
iousness. The term is loosely applied.
calomel Or a course of calomel for It.
The theory was that the liver needed
touching.
There is no proof that in b%iliousness
the liver needs touching OF that calo-
mel n VIII touch. The need is to decrease
addltion and to increase subtraction.
Upton Sinclair would stop addition.
Better poised people than he have
advocated h same policy, though they
purn out the flues by a day or two Of
starvation rather than a week ar two
of it.
The sensible course would be, instead
OF the ft and start, jerky method. to
cnange the amount eaten daily SO as to
bring it in relation to the amount Of
work DONE.
biliousness by increasing subtraction.
Some tell us to ride horseback every
day. Others fnveigle us into games Of
golf, or maybe it's bowling or billiards,
or skating. I do not know, but I doubt
II any prizefighter in training ever suf-
Tered from b~iliousness, or any football
player during h season or any base
ball player between April and October.
The man who is bilious gets relief by
taking a laxative. For this purpose
calomel is as good as salts n castor
Oil, and no better. What he is suffer.
ing from is not torpid liver, but from
food poisoning of a certain sort.
is needed In the ordinary case
IS merely to empty the lower canal and
TO drain some of the water out Of the
abdominal vessels. whereupon the liver
and the other organs will do the rest.
For this purpose a saline is both more
prompt n better than calomel.
IN som of the ordinary cases of so
called biliousness some food remnants
further up h intestinal canal are re-
sponsible for the poisoning. In these
cases, It is claimed, salines do not cure
the b~iltousness; it does not get we'll
until the liver has been touched.
Wha is needed is complete empty
ing OF the large intestine. For this
calomel Is better than salts, but castor
OIL Is better h calomel. The need is
TO touch. h ,coecum. not the liver.
In a certain sense, elycosuria, a form
OF diabetes. is a form Of bjliousness.
The person affected habitually eats
more starch and sugar than his liver
can handle. His addition goes ahead Of
his subtraction. Presently the kidneys
lend q hand and subtraction Il taken
up through h urine.
resting the LIVE for its ability I'd
handle sugar and starch Is not at all
q difficult matter. Any doctor can do
It. It. is but little trouble. It consists
IN taking three and: one-third ounces
OF Eflactose (another4 form Of sugar..
on an empty stomach and then exam
lining the urine for sugar. The tests.
should be six In number, beginning
with h urine passed two hours after
the has been eaten. The exami-
nation should be Of h urine passed
two. four. six, eight. 10 and IL hours
after the sugar has been eaten.
Every high liver should have his
liver capacity tested once q year. The
power of h liver to do its work on
albumtns can also be tested by the
laboratory g The results Of these
tests. however. will not be az service
as guides to conduct a. In the case %
the starch and sugar liver f,,uot1cr.