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Title: Intestinal Ills
Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis

Author: Alcinous Burton Jamison

Release Date: August 19, 2008 [eBook #26365]

Language: English

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INTESTINAL ILLS

Chronic Constipation
Indigestion
Autogenetic Poisons
Diarrhea, Piles, Etc.

Also

Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication,
Anemia, Emaciation, Etc.

Due to
Proctitis and Colitis

Published by Chas. A. Tyrrell, M.D.
134 West 65th Street, New York City
1915

Copyright, 1901
by
Alcinous B. Jamison, M.D.
43 W. 45th Street, New York
U. S. A.

TO
THE UNFORTUNATE SUFFERER
FROM ILLS DESCRIBED IN THIS VOLUME
AND TO THOSE WHOM I HAVE HAD
THE PLEASURE OF CURING
THIS BOOK
IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED

BEAUTY'S FALL.

It was an image good to see,
With spirits high and full of glee,
And robust health endowed;
Its face was loveliness untold,
Its lines were cast in beauty's mold;
At its own shrine it bowed.

With perfect form in each respect,
It proudly stood with head erect
And skin surpassing fair;
Surveyed itself from foot to head,
And then complacently it said:
"Naught can with me compare."

When lo the face began to pale,
The body looked too thin and frail,
The cheek had lost its glow;
The tongue a tale of woe did tell,
With nerves impaired its spirits fell;
The fire of life burned low.

In the intestinal canal
Waste matter lay, and sad to tell,
Was left from day to day;
And while it was neglected there
It undermined that structure fair,
And caused it to decay.

The doctor's words I would recall
Who said: "Neglect precedes a fall,"
And ve