Disease of this
PARKER AMONG WOMEN
John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. LL.D.,
and superintendent of the largest sanitarium in the world (Battle Creek, Mich.), has in a new book verified every claim and assertion made in Tanlac advertising regarding the origin and cause of most ailments and diseases. He states that nearly all chronic ailments, especially disorders of the heart, arteries and kidneys, are the result of absorption of poisons from the intestines. From constipation and auto intoxication the consequences are colitis, so-called biliousness, gastritis, inflammation of the gall ducts, gallstones, skin diseases of various sorts, neurasthenia, and after some years, Bright's disease, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, apoplexy, paralysis, insomnia, mental depression and even insanity.
There are germs bred in the neglected colon which have been proven by scientists to be the cause of early senility, premature old age and death. Continues the article: "These germs produce most virulent poisons, which gradually undermine the constitution and bring on dangerous illnesses. But these old ago germs can be killed and good health maintained," he continues.
In general, the causes of constipation are abnormal habits or conditions of life. In fact, we have too much civilization. Savages rarely suffer from constipation, and this is true of the more primitive socalled civilized nations. This morbid condition peculiar to a state of high civilization has been showy by modern medical researches to  Be among the fundamental causes of the race degeneracy which is becoming every year more apparent. Women are more subject than men to intestinal inactivity, and all the terrible consequences which result from this condition, and Westphalen asserts that four-fifths of all women suffer from constipation (intestinal troubles) from their youth onward. 