Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — Pepsin Is No Use. [ARTICLE]

Pepsin Is No Use.

While I was talking to a druggist this morning a man came in and bought a package of “pepsin chewing gum,” which is advertised as containing enough pepsin to digest 1,000 grains of food. “Got the indigestion,” remarked tho man, as ho paid tho nickel. “There’s another d -lusion,” said tho druggist. “That man believes that this chewing gum will cure him. It will do nothing of the sort. Pepsin vou’thelp anybody’s stoinacii. People overeat and tire out their digestive organs, and then blame their stomachs for not providing enough pepsin, when tho fact is that they have in thoir syslems all the pepsin they require. 7 hen other people drink too much liquor, uso u > tho nerves of their stomachs, and-tako pepsin. ’ Tho pepsin doesn’t do any good, but If they take a re t and live on plain food 'and little of it, they recover and—praise pepsin. I toll you popsn is wholly useless for stomach troubles.” “Put tho pepsin in the gum ho bought won’t do him any injury, will it?” I asked. “There isn’t any pepsin in it. ”—Chicago Post.