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Rh any one can clearly see the terrible sin of eating without appetite. The food is washed down into the stomach by coffee and other abominable liquids, and, in a haphazard way, the stomach may try to digest it. But there is no "vim"' to its efforts. It is a grim duty performed against protest. Should one wonder that he suffers from indigestion under such circumstances? With all this "mess" of food fermenting, and sometimes actually putrefying in the stomach, how could it be otherwise? And some persons have the incomprehensible audacity to wonder why their breath is foul! When the contents of the stomach are in this condition, the whole system is actually poisoned—not only the breath, but the perspiration and every emanation from the body will have an unpleasant odor. This foulness is taken up by the blood in its effort towards elimination—it is therefore distributed everywhere, throughout the entire body, and under such circumstances it is really marvelous how the body can continue to manifest life when