Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-10-06

| hds lnESe u1oSung houses I'D good re-
pair, and no Minister-no Clients,
and no Lawyer-no Doctor, and but
one pauper The Senator of that
county, b Ellis, Esq one ,ceu to kUe,
pays the highest tax, which amounts
to S20-No pulpit polemic disputes
can there exIst--no sparring OF legal
advocates--no conflicting claims of ad
verse sheriffs-no spirit OF aristocracy,
either in religion or law, there donll
nates--lt is the temperate heat of Out
el--may we all be, in Irish phrase,
better trclicf [Barnstable Gag.
Dyspepsia 10 consequence of a
sedentary life, | have Tor many years
been afflicted with the fashionable com
plant denominated dyspepsia. lis
symptom, aud effects were-tlatulence
acrid eructations, and head ache:
pros;ratlon of the spirits, rendering the
nervous system extremely sensitive,
and producing insipient AID epheme-
raj hypochondraiasis. | attributed 1t
to the action of some acrid humour on
the nervous coat OF the stomach, which
disqualified the whole organ for It's u
sual healihful action How this hu
mour was produced, was to me my ste
ri0us. suppose it to he the conse.
quence OF sedentary employment, and
brought on thus: Insuificiency OF bod.
lily exercise to give tone and vigour to
/ the animal functions =; the stomach, ot
! consequence, became relaxed aud EN-
ervated, and unable to operate with
sufficient energy on some substances
! taken into it as food This substance,
lying undigestcd, underwent species
OF fermentation, and the product of
this fermentation acting on the relaxed
and unnaturally tender coats of she
| stomach, produced species oflnham
matory action in the nervous coat, and
| hence the symptoms and effects above
described / have said nothing about
/ the action of The mind, (which was
| kept in a state of vigorous exercise, }
nor its effects, believing that it ope-
rates perniciously on enfeebled organs.
l may be right, and probably am
wrong, in my pathological deductions,
but in the following aratidotc, / be
lieve am not far out Of the way.
From my owa reflection on my own
case, conclude that some one of the
GUMS would be proper prescription.
( look small pill of ASsdfetida, and
w.'s successful beyond my most san
guinc expectations. The flatulencc,
subsidized, and carried with it ALL of
its univ, leone attendants--he head aches,
cosliyeness, g. Whenever | feel any
SYMPTOMS Of this troublesome disease
now. take, Il pill OF Assaietida, and
in 6 A cents worth of me gum, and
when ,ou have occasion to take 1T,
break off about the size Of a common
piIl and swallow it. l ought TO have
mentioned, that ! am convinced that,
this disease is not one of long duration;
bot. on the contrary, one OF mere mo
meatary existence: brought on by cir.
cumstat,ces OF the moment, and recur-
ring as often as those circumstances
recur. Tl2refore, the remedy propo-
sed does not offer security against tu.
ture attacks n or does that which is ia
ken to day. relieve US from the attack
OF Tomorrow. n saying that | be
licve it to be Of ni9ueutary existence;
merely, l mean, that, though It may
be curedto day, it may recur TO NOR
row, but il will not tomorrow be a
continuance of The disease OF to day;
it will be fresh attack, caused oy Inc
existence or recurrence ~ 'nc same
disposition Of habit. The i'aily re
currence of dyspepsia, will, u'ost GER
tainly, produce a permanent disease
but this permanent disease is not dys
pepsia any more than consumption is
a common cold, any more than the
lock jaw is the simple puncture ofthe
nail, or than the fruit is the simple seed
from which it grew
nj Drrus TrNrop