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but to view the thousands of dyspeptics on every hand. 



Pepsin is the great remedy for dyspepsia, and every 

 butcher shop, sausage factory, and all the great slaugh- 

 ter-houses throughout the country have found it profit- 

 able to go into the pepsin-manufacturing business. 

 Never before were there such enormous quantities of 

 pepsin manufactured, and never before was there so 

 much dyspepsia. Gradually we learn that we cannot 

 purchase our digestion ready made. 



Statistics prove that dyspepsia is the primary cause 

 of sickness in nearly one hundred per cent of cases. 

 Few escape the ravages of dyspepsia at some period of 

 their existence. When the stomach begins to give 

 trouble, artificial digestants are resorted to, and the 

 great army of consumers turns first from one remedy 

 to another, each one making the rounds independent 

 of the others. In this way the different manufacturers 

 of the "dope" are kept busy, and sharpers are making 

 fortunes every year. The class of people who take 

 this patent stuff are looking for a specific, a something 

 that will allow them to continue their indulgences and 

 excesses, at the same time paying little or no attention 

 to the demands of nature. But sooner or later nature 

 claims her rights, and for every transgression the indi- 

 vidual must pay principal and interest. It may be in 

 the form of an acute attack, a gradual and lingering 

 disease, some of the many deformities from rheumatism, 

 spinal disease, or an early death. 



Every one should learn that artificial digestants af- 

 ford but temporary relief, that their effects are only 



