Show I r rE j TIm TUE nu ABUSE ABUSI 01 or OI C Ills Hy y Miles lIlIes I F Porter M If LI D ort l w oJ nl Ind In l Gorges Memorial Institute If It the faith ol ot the public In inthe the tho necessity for tor cathartics could be bo be exchanged for or fear o ot of them the change would result In thc SI saving ot of o many lives and much sickness The tear fear o ot of dread consequences consequence due to conStipation has made many millionaires of mountebank manufacturers o of nostrums nostrum add add- added added ed much t to tp the Income of the grave grao diggers coffin coWn makers maker and tombstone cutters Constipation Is never a disease and as usually understood sal sel- seldom sel seldom dom doni oven even a symptom of ot disease Constipation can not be cured with with cathartic cathartics and often i Is 15 ag- ag ag aggravated by the use of them To give a cathartic Is always alwa's dangerous when there are symptoms symptoms toms toms ot of acute abdominal trouble such a as pain cramps vomiting and tenderness It Is 1 quite a 0 common belief bellat that one o ot of the tho first and best things to do at tho the trouble onset o of acute symptoms toms of trouble In the tha abdomen Is to clean out the tha bowels Acting on this bell belief has filled tilled many an I untimelY grave Cathartics a act t by Increasing the secretion of o the bowel and by In Increasing creasing to t-o muscular action o of the bowel ils is results In an ln In in- in increase crease in the bowel content and a n consequent Increase In the pr pres pressure sure suro on the tao coats of ot the tho bowel and an Increase In the movement of othe the bowel This movement l is called by doctors doctore vermicular because Jt t Is worm worm-lIko and causes the tho bowel to t shi Its position from one point to crawl another about the abdomen as If t were One can readily understand how this action pt of f cathartics can rupture a IL bowel weakened weakened by din din- dis disease ease case and scatter the tho contents o of tIe tija bowel which leak through the all all rupture all over the Inside o of the theado ado aldo en thus producing a very dangerous and oft oCt times fatal tatal con litton When a perforation o of tho the bow bow- bowel bowel el Is threatened nature prevents the perforation by plastering over the tho threatened area with lymph aided p perhaps by an adjacent piece o of tissue or bow bow- bow el el Cl which Is IB glued over the dis diseased eased easell area Or In case ense some leak leak- leakage leakage age occurs occurs before belore this Is nature builds a wall about the th irritating material and It Is absorbed before serious dam dam- dam dam-ase age ns-e Is done or results In lit an abs abs- abscess abscess cess a smIl collection of pus pu walled all cd In This Is relatively a a harmless affair This plastering process re- re reQuires requires re requires quires time to bo be successful just justas justas justas as It requires r time tor for a a wall built by a 8 brick brlek mason maBon to get firm or t the e plaster with which he seeks to close a leak lea in n a a cis- cis cistern cm cis cistern tern or or sewer Bewer It If the bricks are moved continually or the plaster Is constantly stirred he ho will not think su When you think you need a a physic pay play sate safe sate and con con- con consult suit sult your physician |