The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-02-07
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DYSPEPSIA MANS
GREATEST ENEMY
Distressing Malady Has Baffled
the Medical Profession for
Many Many Years."

mand for Tanlac, c. F. Willis, couth-
ern representative for L. T. Cooper,
manufacturer of the celebrated medi-
cine, stated recently in Atlanta that
the thousands of questions were being
asked all over the south regarding it
make it imperative that some explana-
ton be made to satisfy public interest.
At this point, Mr.. Willis quoted
from one of Mr.. Cooper's recent lee
lures, in which he said: "Of all the
distressing conditions that afflict hui
mainly, chronic dyspepsia is probably
the most prevalent. This most uni
verasl malady has baffled the medical
profession for years, and the most
skilled specialists have been unable to
cope with it successfully.
Hours might be consumed in de-
scribing the sufferings, mental and
physical, of the sufferers of chronic
dyspepsia and their failure heretofore
to get relief A morbid, unreal, whim-
steal and melancholy condition of the
mind, aside from the nervousness and
physical suffering, is the usual condi-
ton of the average dyspeptic, and life
seems scarcely worth the living Dys-
pepsia, or indigestion, as the case may
be, is caused by the taking of too
much food, or unsuitable food, and the
muscous membrane of the stomach
becomes irritated, and there is set an
actue or sub-actue gastric catarrhal
condition which prevents the proper
digestion of the food This food is
apt to ferment and dccompose, and as
result the familiar symptoms of
dyspepsia may arise. In most cases
| there is nothing more than an uncom-
Portable feeling in the stomach with
! acertain amout of depression, head
ache, loss of appetite, perhaps belch-
| ing Of gas and occasional vomiting.
There may be also accompanying in
testinal symptoms, such as constipa-
ton pains in the back, collie, etc.
There may be only the familiar heart
burn due to the inflammation of the
stomach from excessive gases of fer
mentation or putrefaction. In the
most severe cases-those that last ov-
er day or two-the symptoms emu
merated may be much more intense.
The distress may be marked and the |
general constitution symptoms more
evident When this stage reached the |
loss of appetite, the mental depression |
and the general uncomfortable feel |
ing in the stomach are much more |
pronounced. This is particularly true
in acute gastritis
1T frequently occurs from contin-
ued errors in diet that this condition
becomes chronic, and the symptoms
persist for an indefinite period; the ap-
petite is very apt to be varied, al
though at times very good. Heart
burn is frequent, if not constant; the
stomach is painful on pressure, the
tongue is coated, there is a bad taste
in the mouth, and there are changes
IN the amount of the salivary secre-
ton. Constipation is also usually pres
ent, although diarrohoea may alter
nate
Most of the cases of dyspepsia can
be cured if the diet is properly looked
after and with the proper treatment.
Proper eating and the proper amount
OF food are the most important fea-
lures in the treatment. Most people
eat 100 fast and eat too much.
One of the most pernicious of all
practices in the treatment of dvspep-
STA is the promiscuous taking of so
MANY OF the so-called proprietary med
lcines, which are so blatantly adver-
tiSed in the daily press, MANY of them
being nothing more than alcoholic
beverages, and their use is moi unat-
tended With d great deal oi danger.
The treatment of constipation that is
SO frequently an accompaniment of
dyspepsia by means of patent pills,
calomcl, powders and purgatives is t
positively harmful.
Il am convinced" continued Mr.
Cooper that the stomach regulates the
condition of the blood and is. the
fountain head of health or disease. as
the case may be. My medicine is in
tended primarily FOR the regulation of
the stomach and the correction of ca
tarrhal inflammation, but it is no I'm
common thing for persons who have
used it to come to me and explain that
1t has relieved them of rheumatism and
many ailments not generally recog-
nized in haing their origin in stomach
trouble"
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
in all the principal cities of the south
and at Denmark's Drug Store.-adv
Mrs Dismuke and Mrs. Wilkins, of