THE MASTICATION CURE.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 364, 30 April 1903, Page 6

THE MASTICATION CURE.

% (termnn Sul—«Ut'» Uem«*r for I»--.-v. dix*t4iflD oa tin? Otaditoatea i Prlneiplw. Mastication if the latest cart for the illi which afflict mankind, say* •a -writer in the Brooklyn JEagle. A German scientist has discovered that indigestion and all the complaints Arising from it can be either prevented or cured by obliging patients to Irfte up thoroughly everything that inters thoir mouths. Even liquid*, such as water, ;mu*t be chewed to some iktent. and soup must receive as much mastication as if it Were composed of Sxf bread crumbs. According to the scientist >tvho advocates this- method, 55 per cent, of the Jttomaoh troubles •if mankind are can«sd by improper methods of consuming food and drink. .The human mouth, he point* out, is "neither a mere receptacle for food, nor is it designed solely for tasting. It is as much a digestive organ as the stomach itself. More than half of the process of digestion, he says, •acGld take ple.ee in the mouth. It ie tit* work which sfhonid havt .ocen performed by the ter.vhis Jitowi: ypoii the stomach that indigestion btk] other troubles eni-ue. Animals do not have indigestion, says the German dlsstoverer, because those which have been given* ruminant teeth never think of bolting their food, as mankind does. Th*». dog bolts its food and does not iruffer from indigestion srmply,because nature has padSßOn if vJitha digestive apparatus which renders chewing Snore or less superfluous-. . "Nature, however, stopped with the animals. Ifo man yet investigated .has been found to possess the dog's digestive abilities.