Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-08-14

respects, also, the coloring matter of candies
is seen to be still worse These facts are
settled by simply looking into the stomach
with the naked eye, and viewing all the pro-
cesses or stages through which different ar
ticles of food must pass in the act of diges-
tion.
Hot bread never digests! Bear this in
mind, reader, if you are accustomed to eat
the light aud tempting biscuit at "tea," or
the warm loaf that looks so appetizing upon
your dinner table Hot bread never d.
gests at all it will, after long season of
tumbling and working about in the stomach,
begin to ferment, and it will eventually be
passed out of the stomach as an unwelcome
guest of that delicate organ; but it never
digests-never becomes assimilated to or
absorbed by the organs that appropriate nu-
triton to the body. 1t is, however, first
rate dyspepsia producer
Chopped meat, moistened, introduced
through this bullet hole into the mans stom-
ach, is fourd 10 nourish him just as it would
if taken at the mouth All that the spa
tient" requires, in that case, is to be allowed
to chew piece of gum, (merely to satisfy
the haJH of chewing, We suppose) and he
gets along as well as if he had eaten his din
ner; it is undoubtedly better, however, that
the food should first be masticated, and this
can only be done through the proper agcn.
cies appointed for that purpose by nature.
Venison digests in an hour; cooked oys-
tiers, in two hours and half; raw oysters
Contrary to our previous impression) three
hours and a half beef stake, two hours and
a half; fat pork, four hours lean pork, a
little more than three hours. Probably this
rule would not apply to all persons differ
emily in different stomachs but the general
principle here illustrated undoubtedly holds
good in the great majority Of cases
CalOm"l, taken into healthy stomach,
according to DR. Bunting's experiments, is
found to irritate it; if given in case of dis
ease, it does not have that effect
: Mirthtu1nrSs, at and after a meal, facilta-
tes digestion wonderfully. Take St. Mar
tin to theatre, for instance, after hearty
evening meal, and let him enjoy a good
comedy-the result is astonishing; digestion
is promoted to an astoniug degree. "Laugh
and grow fat" is an adase now seen to be
founded upon physiological truth.
But make this man suddenly angry, un-
der the above circumstances, and presto
what a change The whole process of diges-
tion is at once arrestcd-brought to sud-
den stop, as ii by the stroke of an electric
shock and it does not again 60 on as well
as before, until II considerable time after the
emotion which caused the interruption has
died away.
Water is the first thing taken up and ab-
sorbed by the stomach, and this must be
done before food is acted upon, even if the
water be taken subsequently to the food
Eating aud drinking freely alternately, at
meals, as habit, is not sanctioned by the
revelations made through the bullet hole in
St. Martins stomach Another bad prac-
tce is the habit of eating between meals,
and at all hours. This custom, according
to the disclosure here made, is a most per-
nicious one. Regularity, above all things,
is to be observed, both in the quantity of food
and the time of eating it.
Black pepper is much. worse for the stom-
ach than red or cayenne pepper; it inaames
the chasngs of the stomach.
A piece of meat, tied to a string, has been
introduced into the stomach through this
orifce and after the lapse of a certain time,
it has been pulled out again, and the process
of the digestive action accurately noted. In
this way, corned beef for instance, has been
reduced to mass of fine, delicate aud oven
threads, after having been for some time
subjected to the action of the gastric juice.
Another queer disclosure is the action of the
stomach in case of hunger, when the whole
sack or bag, known as the stomach, is seen
to roll and "work" about. If kept too long
in this empty and restless condition, the
action of the organ is weakened stom-
ach looses portion of its vital energy, and
the digestion of food taken at that time is
performed more slowly in consequence The
stomach evidently requires rest, like the
body, and it receives injury if this is not al
lowed it, but it should not be kept too long
without food
Anger has the effect to cause the lille to
rush into the stomach in stream. This
has been observed with certainty in the case
of St. Martin. When he has been sudden
ly enraged, while lying upon table, the
bile had been seen to rush into the stomach,
which was perfectly clear of it the instant
before, and in such quantity as to admit of
its being emptied out freely into cup sim.
ply by turning him oyer.
DR.. Bunting has taken voluminous notes
and will publish book, setting forth the
results arrived at while St. Martin has been
under his charge. 1t will be valuable ad-
dition to the existing works on medicine
and surgery:
ST. Martin, since he was wounded, has
married and become the father of seven chill
dren, FIVE of whom with his wife, are now
living. At first the only way his food after
entering the stomach by the oesophagus,
could be prevented fram passing out through
the wound, was to use eompressive and aa-
hesiye straps This necessity has been since
overcome by the growth of a small fold of
the coats of the stomach, which now ex-
tends almost entirely over the oriice, but
which can be readily depressed with the fin