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Minn., says : " Cotton-seed oil is a wholesome, nutritious vegetable oil 

 which delicate stomachs bear without injury." 



3. The Mouth shirks Duty at the Expense of the Stomach. The 

 average chronic dyspeptic needs to eat pure food and avoid soft and 

 sloppy food. Why ? Because when the food is in the form of slops it 

 is well lubricated, and when taken into the mouth it goes down before 

 you can say "Jack Robinson," and the food has not had saliva mixed with 

 it and thus escapes mouth digestion. Now mouth digestion is just as 

 necessary as stomach and intestinal digestion ; the mouth must do its 

 work properly in order that the other steps in the digestive process may 

 be well performed. The process of digestion is like setting up a long 

 row of bricks, each being a little space from the other, so that when the 

 first brick is tipped it strikes the next brick and knocks it down, and 

 that strikes the next, and so on till all the bricks are down. Mouth 

 digestion prepares for stomach digestion. Good Health. 



4. Sick Headache, and How to Avoid It. Sick headache means 

 germs and foul matter in the alimentary canal, especially the stomach. 

 These attacks are always preceded by well-marked symptoms ; by noting 

 and profiting by these, and by using common-sense treatment, no one 

 need agonize through such painful experiences at any time. 



Among the warning symptoms are dullness, sleepiness after eating, 

 floating specks before the eyes, a coated tongue, and often constipation. 

 Sometimes there is a voracious appetite. In fact, large quantities of 

 food are taken into the body and retained there, and but little is elimi- 

 nated. The natural result is that there is stagnation from clogging up 

 with spoiled food and retained waste matter. The poisons produced are 

 carried by the circulation to all parts of the body. Much blood natu- 

 rally goes to the head, and with it a large amount of poison. 



Common sense would say that when the source of a disorder is known 

 the proper thing would be to remove it ; instead of giving some opiate 

 to quiet the symptoms, which are only the wise protest of the bodily 

 organs against abuse, it would be more rational to relieve them by 

 removing the unhealthy matter from the stomach and bowels ; or if the 

 treatment is begun in time, all that may be needed is a fast, or a fruit 

 diet for twenty-four hours, and free water drinking, to give the sys- 

 tem time to dispose of the excess of waste matter. 



J. H. KELLOGG, M.D. 



5. Pawlow, an eminent Russian medical authority, made a kind of 

 window in a dog's stomach, so that he could look in and see what was 

 going on. He found that when he brought savory food to the dog and 

 placed it before his nose and eyes and didn't let him eat it or taste of it, 

 by looking into his stomach he could see the gastric juice trickling down 



