The Washington times., 1916-12-14
POPULAR MEDICINE
BY DIR. HIRSHBERG
intelligent Observation Of Rules
Of Hygiene Will De-
crease Illness.
ny DIR. T.. X. HIRsHBERG.

Your stomach Is not a balloon sort
OF a sack. like u pudding bag, to hold
not griddle cakes, cabbages, peanuts
and other kinds OF hard tack until the
hurrying-scurrying blood In it's walls
sucks up the juicy morsels within, II
liz sort OF internal animal-inner
man In good name for it--that moves
and has It's being no less individual
than any other distinct animal you
may name.
Just AS tho true medicine OF the
mind, as Cicero once said, Is philoHo.
ply, so the true medicine or tho
stomach IL food. This animal within
alone, but must live for the the other other
animal for which II labors--not by
the sweat of its brow, but by the al.
geative juices OF Its walls.
"Symbiosis" Is the harsh name Civ.
that live in pairs. Two different iiv.
ing types-one mayhap n green plant,
tho other n pale mould; one an oyster,
the other fish; one a stomach,
the other a man--each performing a
growth, prosperity and development
OF both, but neither able to do the
work OF both entirely alone are said
to live n "symbiotic" existence.
The green lichen OF scaly, green.
ish white flakes that grow upon rocks
and hard soil, often mistaken for a
fiat sort OF moss, is In reality two dif.
fcrent creatures. a mould and MI
geographically small water plant or
and mineral food from granite rocks
or hard barks OF trees, while the al
gae obtains air and makes starches
and stun with its green "chlorophyr'
from the sunlight and the atmos.
phere. This is symbiosis.
Position IL Upright
The stomach in the human frame
does n similar duty. 1t IL a mortar
and pestle to crunch, pulverize, mae
crate. grind up and move about the
rations which reach II from the
mouth. Its muscular walls are also
coated with n texture that manufac-
lures pepsin, muriatic acid and other
complicated chemicals to convert
bushels OF solid stun into such a thin
solution that will harmlessly and
Innings, covers, coats and muscular
thicknesscs of the stomach walls on
into the lymph CUTTERS and blood
spouts provided TO convey them 70
the liver. spleen, heart BRAIN Kid
Profs. Hugh walsham and Walker
Overend, both OF 81. Bhrtholemcw'B
Hospital. London, have added lately
another link to the knowledge of tn"
NHlmSn Msr" dIrsSteS Sa' at the movements OF
The healthy human stomach. They
found that the stomach In erect pos
lures iH almost upright and vertical
and does not swing like "a hammock,
as IL generally believed. There IT. "a
small J.shaped component at the
lower end
Moves when Hungry.
The English physicians discovered
that the stomach becomes muscular
ly active when ten ounces OF n
creamy, emulsion Of milk or matter
in which N suspended n little sugar
and two or three ounces OF biSmuth
iu taken. The muscular movement
can be observed by means OF tho
x.rays or x.rny motion pictures.
A number OF strange facts were
discovered by the British surg"onH'
One OF these is that N you receive
sharp blow on the ribs over or on
either side OF your stomach " VIII
begin TO move and sauirm as u IL had
ben hit itself.
Another fact verifies a discovery
OF Prof Cannon that whenever you
arc hungry the stomach IL In motion
Its muscles Keep II moving around
ON the other hand, a mere appetite,
without hunger. is distinguished BY
an utter absence OF stomach move
whenever your stomach "growls" Il
L. observed that II IL In active mo.
tion. Furthermore, the number OF
growls. noises and reyerbationH are
Increased n the stomach II empty.
II IL the "cail OF the inner man for
food and drink, especially food