Among the pernicious diseases incidental to life in the tropics dysentery takes an important place.
Bpsaking broadly, no tropical disease fe more pestilential than dysentery, for it undermines the health, depresses the nervous system, reduces the ton: vigour of the whole body, diminishes the mental energy, and, generally interferes with the individ physical power of resistance against disease.
'The treatment of dysentery, like that of typhoid, and, la great measure, that of malaria, is admittedly one of diet. 'Mitk, the blandest of foods, was, until time ago, the sbectin' the very disease many doctors are, however, opposed to its use, and is are not able to digest it, written, possesses virtues of @ very high order," and is practically " specific in the modern treatment of dysentery. This is Banatogen. Its 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 ite nutritive value, io chemical combioation—not merely mixed—with 59 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 that the preparation puts no strain on the most enfeebled digestive organs. All of it absorbed or assimilated by the body, 0 that there is no residue to irritate the leers which are formed in the course of the disease and prohibit the giving of solid food.
8 wu is, therefore, anivereally prescribed, for it maintains the patient's power of resistance at high level, thereby giving him a better chance ichly and without complications. fore than that, cases which get worse under ordinary conditions rapidly improve when Sanatogen in added to the diet. One of th mest values of 8 ited to rest during or after dysentery. It is actually preventive of the disease by strength-the system so that it can withstand exposure to the infection, Sanatogen can be obtained from all chemists, To meet the special needs of Awellers in the tropics, a booklet, "How to keep well in Tropical Climat has been written by physician who has practised for many years in such countries, and it will be tent free to all who write for it mentioning the " North-China Herald" to Messrs, A. 8. Watson & Ca., Shanghai, who are also able to supply Sanatogen.
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