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Show JACURE fIr LOI Broken Hoart Jwiodo Wholo Again by dhomlatry., 1 The Brfty-halrcdl spoctacled young physiological chtinlat completed n queer stunt ho hid boerf doing on a ' fragment of mushroom with anhyd rous and alcohol free other In a Sox- Wet extractor, sighed with relief, lighted a big German -porcelain pipe, perchod himself on a desk In the deserted de-serted lecture room and spoke. "Golly!" a ruminative puff-puffing "I never thought that I and my test tubes and precipitates and other stuff would ever be called In to help cure cases, of love-sickness. Yes, sir; hearts broken by malicious shotsA of Cupid havo been mended by me, or rather through" my advice. "Funny role for science, eh? But why not? If science, Is to be worth anything It must be of help In practical prac-tical life, although my colleagues would consider mo a heretic for tlftt opinion the chumps!" Pff puff puff f-f! The gray tobacco to-bacco smoke' twirled orth, lending a now odor to the atmosphere, already al-ready saturated as with the combined chemical .resultant o'f tho combination of a score, of drug Btores with the bottles bot-tles unstopped. Hla big, owllike eyes, immensely magnified by the lenses of his spectacles, peered solemnly at the reporter. "Well, but the story:?' '"Oh, yes, tho story f Quite a simple sim-ple one, yet odd and very modern, my boy. You know I mako anal) sea here of all manner of things for people peo-ple who have the price. Lust week I was visited by a physician who conducts con-ducts a' high class sanitarium not far from New York. Place for women, wom-en, you know; for wealthy neurasthenics. neuras-thenics. "Tho physician wanted to ascertain why two of his patleats failed to assimilate as-similate their nutriment. As I do In all such cases I inquired Into their history. ' "Two unhappy women, young and fair presumably, for I never met tho ladles. Two sad stories of love. One was a wife deserted by a rapscallion husband, without whom had she only thought so she was far better off. But the trouble was that she did not think so. The-'other was a girl disappointed because some young flirt of a boy had married another. Common cases, you see. "I found that the falluro to assimilate assimi-late nutriment was due to the fact that therehad been no flow of hydrochloric hydro-chloric acid In tho alimentary tract df either of the patients. Tho physician physi-cian said that they were moping and pining themselves to death, literally wasting away. Medicine was useless, Afp It seemed; food they did not digest; UJ0 they were dying, as the old phraso runs, of broken hearts. , "And Just why? For this reason k mark It well th'elr mental state was accountable for what Is called Inhibition Inhibi-tion of certain glandular actions controlling con-trolling tho flow of hydrochloric, acid. Pyschlcal influences, In other words, ruled their bodily functions and this Is a principle that to-day Is becoming widely recognized and assumes, moro Sand moro importance In tho treatment treat-ment of cases of malnutrition. "For Instance, suppose you are a business man worried by some matter or other, and you rush out to your' lunch, anxious only to eaf and get back to yourdesk. Your preoccupation preoccupa-tion and, worry lnhtlilts, that is to say actually prevent, the flow of certain necessary gastric Juices needed to digest what you cat. "Therefore you don't digest It, hence trouble of a greater or lesser degree; progressive trouble, too, If you don't change our ways and eat only when you are, tranquil, only when you aro happy, If you can compass happiness. That ago old, that difficult diffi-cult quest; the search for happiness.! Puff -puff-puff -f-f! "I said to the physician, jays I: 'Give 'era hydrochloric acid after - meals, about eo much,' Ho did so. Result: The heart-broken ladles began be-gan to digest their food. "As their bodies received nourish-' wont some of tho strain on tho mind caused by malnutrition was eased; consequently there was less morbid- lty, le?s gloom; this bottorment of physical condition romoved tho inhibition inhibi-tion of glandular function, tho bodily hyjlroehlorlc acid flowed again; that great specific. Time aided tho good calse, and In duo course of events tho heartbroken, lovesick patlonts recov ered tono and wont out again Into tho "world. "Do you know I feol rathor proud of that Job? Gut I wonder, I wonder what tho young women would say If they knew! Havo I sullied tho romance ro-mance of loo? Well, I say no; lovo, like all othor things human, will bo tho better for tho light of truth and, that light shines from the workshops of sclenco, my boy. Yes!" A The big eyes glared with portentous W W solemnity through the spectnclos and through tho gray tobacco uinoke In tho dingy lecture room. Puff-puff went tho physiological chomlst. |
