The Archive · 1910

The Crusade Against Dysentery

WISE WORDS BY A PHYSICIAN

takes an important place incidental to life in the tropic dysentery Among the pernicious diseases

Speaking broadly, no tropical disease is more pestilential than dysentery, for it undermines the health, depresses the nervous system, reduces the tone and vigour of the whole body, diminishes the mental energy, and, generally inter. fered >with the individual's physical power of resistance against disease.

The treatment of dysentery, like that of typhoid, and, la great measure, that of malarin, is admittedly one of diet, Milk, the blandest of foods, was, until comparatively nort time ago, the sheoanchor of the physician, In the very acute stages of the disease many doctors fare, however, opposed to its use, and many patients are not able to digest it, to that they grow steadily worse. food-tonic which, a8 one physician bes Happily, science has written, @ virtues of a very high order," and is practically a specific in the modern treatment of dysentery. This is Sanatogen. Ita composition is well known, for it has been widely stated to consist of 95% of pure casein of milk, the substance to which that food owes its nutritive value, in chemical combination—not merely mixed—with 596 of Glycero-Phosphate of Sodium, the chief vital constituent of the nervous system. These two substances, in the combination in which they exist in Banatogen, are so digestible thet the Preparation puts no strain on the most enfeebled digestive organs. All of it is absorbed or assimilated by the body, 80 that there is no reside to irritate the ulcers which are formed in the course of the disease and prohibit the giting of solid food.

Banatogen is, therefore, ani prescribed, for it maintains the 6 power of resistance at " high level, thereby giving him " better chance of recovering ly and without complications. More than that, eases which get worse under ordinary condi-supre-mest values of Sanstogen is that it is not limited to restoring the health daring or after dysentery. It is actually a preventive of the disease by strengthening the system so that it can withstand exposure to the infection, Banatogen can be obtained from all tioning the " North-China Fond Messrs. A. 8. Watson 800, Shaogh, who are also able to supply Banstogen,

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