Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 13 | Fatigue Remedy Found to be Mild Laxative

9 9 J ali ie Remy i Found t io B Be e r ild Laxative 1 By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association of Hygeia I the Health Magazine Almost every soda fountain and certainly every drug counter contains contains contains con con- some preparation which is al alleged alleged al- al to have particular virtues in overcoming that tired feeling Man an has constantly sought ht some panacea that would b by a single dose I the effects of wear and tear Just as he has sought some potent remedy to rejuvenate the feebleness of the agedA aged A few years asp ago a German phar phar- Em Embden den startled the i world with Wi hb the statement nt that acid sodium Odium phosphate te gl ch In in s small doses would overcome fatigue MUSCULAR TH THEORY ORY Based on the view that muscles by their activities use up phosphorus phosphorus he decided that an additional additional addi addi- supply of ot phosphorus would prevent the Inevitable tiredness that comes comes with too much work H He gave the workers In a certain mine minea a drink cont containing about 75 grams grams- of ot acid sodium ph phosphate on the morning of ot days dars when they were to undergo hard exertion Other workers were given gi a simi similar lar drink without the phosphate Embden claimed that the workers e who received the drink were able to do more work an and foi fot longer longerI periods than those who did not ic- ic I elve eive the acid sodium phosphate i Unfortunately experiments since made on this subject have fAiled tailed to substantiate Embden Embden's a views Dr r F F. F B B. B Flinn of the United States public health service out a similar series of ot experiments on onI I persons enSa engaged ed in manual labor MILD LAXATIVE lIe He found that the sodium phosphate does not increase muscular muscular muscular lar efficiency although persons persona who took the thc drink seemed to f feel el better than those who did not Acid sodium phosphate has his long bong been known as a c Although d dotes doses es recommended by Embden were smaller than the amount s for Cor laxative purposes they the were still sufficient to speed speedup up the action of t the ie Intestinal tract A constipated person Is like likely to get tired quicker and to feel tired more often th than n one ne whose Intestines Intes intes' Intestines intestines tines function n properly This is taken by the American investigators tors to be le the basis for tor the claims m made le by the German German phai gist I As might have been expected German manufacturing interests hive have already exploited the Embden discovery in the shape of a proprietary pro pro- pro pro- medicine sold old for fatigue An America 1 syn syndicate e has also endeavored to promote the substance substance substance sub sub- stance under a fancy name al alI although although al- al though thus far toll with but slight success suc sue I cess n A