The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-12-26


mans stomach, is found to nourish hin
just As it would II taken in at the mouth
Veuison digosts in an hour; cookee
oysters in two hours and half; raw oy
stcrs. CONTRARY to our previous impress
IONS three hours and half; beef steal
two hours and half; fat pork four hours
lean pork little more than three hours
Probably this rule would not apply to al
persons; different articles Of food are di
gcsted differently in different stomachs
but the general principle here illustrated
undoubtedly holds good 10 the great ma
jority Of cases.
Calomel taken into healthy stomach
according to DIR. Bunting's experiment
is found to irritate il; ifgiven in case oi
disease, it does not have that effect.
Mirthfulness, at and after meals, facili.
tates digestion wonderfully. Take st.
Martin TO theatre, for instance, after. q
hearty evening meal, and let him enjoy a
good comedy-thc result is astonishing
digestion is promoted to surprising de-
gree. "Laugh and grow fat" is an ad.
age now seen to be founded upon phys.
biological truth.
But make this man suddenly angry,
under tho above circumstances, and pres
to what change! The whole process
of digestion is at once arrestcd-brought
to sudden stop, as if by the stroke OF
an electric shock and it does not again
90 on as well az before until a considera-
bic time after the emotion which caused
the interruption has died away.
Water is the first thing taken up and
absorbed by the stomach, and this must
be done before food is acted upon, even
if the water be taken subsequently to the
food. Eating and drinking freely, alter
nately at meals as a habit, is not sane
toned by the revelation made through
the bullet-hole in ST. Martins stomach
Another bad practice is the habit of
eating between meals and at all hours.
The custom, according to the disclosure
here made, is most pernicious one.
Regularity, above all things, is to be OBJ
Served, both in quantity of food and time
of eating it. Black pepper is much
worse for the stomach than red or Cay
enne pepper; it infames the coatings of
the stomach.
a piece Of meat tied to string, has
been introduced into the stomach through
the orifce, and after the laps of Ger
tain time it has been pulled out again,
and the progress Of the digestive organs
accurately noted. In this way corncd
beef, for instance, has been reduced to a
mass of fine, delicate and even threads,
after having been for some time subject
ca =. = = The action Of the gastric juice.
Another or,,er ni--"'osure is the action
of the stomach in case of hunger, when
the whole sack or bag known SIS the
stomach is soeu to roll and work about
If kept teo long in this empty aud rest
less condition, abe action Of the organ i
weakcned--thc stomach loses portion
Of its vital energy, and the digestion Of
food taken at that time is performed
more slowly in couseauenee.
The stomach evidently requires rest,
like the body, and receives injury ii this
is not allowed it; but it should not be
long without food.
Anger has an effect to cause the bile
to rush into the stomach in a stream
This has been observed with certainty in
the cas-. Of St Martin. When he had
been enraged, while lying upon the table,
the bile has been seen to rush into the
stomach, which was perfectly clear Of it
the instant before, and such quantity
as to admit of it being emptied out freely
into cup ! simply by turning him over !,
DIR. Bunting has taken voluminous
notes, and will publish book, setting
forth the results arrived at while St. Mar
tin has been under his charge 1t will
be valuable addition to the existing
works on medicine and surgery.
st. Martin, since he was wounded,
has married. aud become the father of
seventeen children, five Of whom, with
his wife, ere now living. At first the
only way by which his food after enter
ing the esophagus could be prevented
from passing out through the wound
was to use congresses and adhesive
sbftIs. l. HS hSSNnSisy a.S slUCt DeSD
overcome by the growth of smal fold
Of the coat, of the stomach, which now
! extends almost over the orifcs, but can
be readily ropressed with the finger sc
as to allow an examination Of the stom,
ach when it is empty, to the depth OF
five or six inches. st. Martin is of me
dium hight, dark complexion, peculiar
glittering grey eye, and is remarkable
| for his toughness Of constitution.
The Medical Society were much inter
es,ed in the experiment, and they pass
ed resolution Of cordial thanks to DIR
Bunting for affording them this oppor
tunity Of personally witnessing this sin
cular and interesting case, and for I'M
portant facts which he so freely furnish
ed them; also TO Col Colt, for the live
ly interest he had taken in securin!
his presence Of St. Martin in Hartftrd
in order that professors here NIGH
have the benefit of witnessing an
testing important facts in this case
Hartford Times.
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