The Worcester Spy

It beats too quickly. or seems to miss an occasional beat. nothing will. do but an Immediate examination. Yet physicians affirm that organic disease of the heart is rare. Perhaps only once in a hundred times where there is derangement of the heart is it found to be due to a disease of the organ itself. In the other ninety-nine cases it is functional. Functional disease of the heart means that the functions of the heart are interfered with by an abnormal or diseased condition of some other organ. and this organ is generally the stomach. Through the sympathetic and pneumogastric system of nerves. which are distributed to the heart and stomach in common. the heart at once sympathizes with any disturbance of the stomach. The great organs of the body are designed to occupy a certain space in the cavity of the trunk in which they are so nicely arranged. When the stomach is over-distended by eating, or when digestion causes the gas from the fermentation of half digested food to inflate that organ, the stomach extends outside its allotted bound, the heart is encroached upon and crowded, and then follow shortness of breath and irregular, palpitating action of the heart Now in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred supposed heart disease Is functional and curable. and in every such case no other medicine will so quickly effect a cure as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, It is an axiom that diseases which originate in the stomach must be cured through the stomach. It is in line with this axiom that the "Golden Medical Discovery" works its logical and legitimate cures. By strengthening the stomach. by promoting the flow of the digestive juices. the digestion is improved, the stomach restored to its normal condition of health, and the functional disturbance of the heart thereby corrected.Thousands of people who believe they had heart disease have been radically cured by the "Golden Medical Discovery." It cures indigestion or dyspepsia. weakness of the the stomach and all affections of the nutritive system, except cancer of the stomach. Among the commonest symptoms of these derangements and weaknesses of the digestive and nutritive system are frequent attacks of bilious or sick headache. bitter taste in the mouth, tongue coated white or covered with a brown fur, "backache" and tired feelings. lassitude and a sense of debility. There is generally depression of spirits and a decided tendency to be discouraged, and despondent; there is loss or irregularity of appetite. uneasiness or undue fullness in the region of the stomach after eating, sometimes sour stomach, "heart-burn. naysea and "water-brash." flatulency. and acrid or sour eructations or risings" soon after eating: the bowels become irregular, usually constipated, and occasionally subject to diarrhea, attended with colicky pains. Not often is there any pain experienced in the region of the liver, but it is sometimes accompanied with "sideache." The foregoing symptoms are not all likely to be present in any one case, nor are any two cases alike in every respect. "I never took any medicine that did me so much good as Dr. Pierce's." writes Mrs. Sophronia McCrea of Castleton. Hartford county. Md. "When I wrote to you I was suffering from such a pain between my shoulders I could not draw a long breath at times. and had a soreness across my shoulders and breast upon rising in the morning. I suffered off and on for eight years. trying different physicians. and asking different doctors what caused this. but with no satisfactory results. I took medicine. and at last I said I would not take any more. I couldn't even do light work with any ease. nor do much of anything that caused me to bend over; couldn't sleep at night; had terrible headaches and numbness in my arms and hands. I was taken with a pain around my heart while eating dinner one day, but thought it would pass away: it did not. however. so I felt compelled to call in the doctor. He said: Why. you have no heart trouble,'I said it must be-I could not lie_ down my heart beat so (as I.called it) through my head. He left me medicine and it lulled the pain for about three weeks. The pain annoyed me at times for twenty-one nights; I had not slept nor did I 'want much to eat. All I seemed to want was rest. Some said I was too stout. I weighed 195 pounds. height 5 feet. 44 years old. mother of four children. One day I was making the fire, and I picked up a piece of paper out of one of your books, and it described my case so closely I thought I would try Dr. Pierce's medicine. I handed it to my husband. and he said: Well. you might try it. if it is not like all the rest.' I sent to the drug store and got a bottle: I took two doses and slept good that night. I kept on taking it. I did not take quite six bottles of the Golden Medical Discovery until I felt like a new woman. People were surprised, for my neighbors knew how I had suffered.' Such results as these are not obtained by stimulation. There is no alcohol in Golden Medical Discovery, and it contains no whiskey or other stimulant. The secret of its healing power lies in its prompt and powerful action on the stomach, the organs of digestion and nutrition and the blood-making glands. Another specimen case is that which follows, where years of suffering could have been saved by a timely use of the "Discovery. "Six years ago my stomach and heart troubled me so much I had to do something, as the doctors could not help me." writes Mrs. S. A. Knapp of San Jose. California (Box 892). "I went to San Francisco and had treatment, and was