The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-03-04

In both of these respects, also, the col.
oring matters of candies is seen TO be
still worse. These facts are settled,
simply by looking into the stomach with
the naked eye. and viewing oil the pro.
cesses or stages through which different
articles of food must pass in the act of
digestion.
Hot bread never digests Bear this
in mind reader, if you are accustomed to
eat the eight" and tempting biscuit at
tea. " or the warm loaf that looks go ap.
petzing upon your dinner table. Hot
bread never digests at all; it will aftor
a long season Of tumbling and working
about the stomach, begin to fermcnt, and
it will eventually be passed out of the
stomach as an unwelcomc. tonant of that
delicate organ but never digests-never
becomes assimilated to or absorbed by
the organs that appropriate nutrition to
tho body. 1t is, however, first rate
dyspepsia producer.
Chopped meat mristoned. introduced
through his bullet.hole into the mans
stomach, is found to nourish him just as
it would if taken at the mouth All
that the "patient" requires, in that case,
is to be allowed to chew piece of gum
| (mercly TO satisfy the habit of chewing,
we suppose) and he gets along as if he
had eaten his diuner it is undoubtedly
better however that the food should be
first masticated, and this can only be
done through the proper agency appoin-
ted for tina, purpose by Nature.
ia, n1
oysters, in two hours and half; raw
oysters CONTRARY to onr previous impress
stony three hours and a half; beef steak
10 two hours and a half fat pork four
hours; clean pork, little more than
three hours. Probably tLs rule would
not apply to all persons; different arti-
Giles of food are digested differently in
different stomachs but the general
principles here illustrated undoubtedly
holds good in the great majority of cases.
Calomel, taken into the healthy stoin-
ach, according to Dr. Bunting's expert.
ments, is found to rritate it if given in
case of disease it does not have that ef-
feet.
Mirthfulness at and alter a meal, fac
ili'ates digestion wonderfully. Take St.
Martin to theatre, for instance, after q
hearty evening meal, an1 let him enjoy
a good omedy-thc result is astonish.
ing digestion is promoted to a surpris-
ing degree. Laugh aud grow fat" is
an adage now seen to DC founded upon
physiological truth.
But make this man suddenly apgry,
under tue above circumstances and
presto what change The whole
process of digestion is at once arrested
brought to sudden stop, as if by the
stroke of an electric shock and i. does
not again 60 on as we'll as before, until
a considerable time after the emotion
which caused the interruption las 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, al
ternately, at meals, as a habit, is not
sanctioned by the revelations 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 per
nlcious one. Regularity above all
things, is to be observed, both in tho
quantity of food and time of eating it.
Black pepper is much worse for the
stomach than red OF cayenne pepper it
iufames the coatings of the stomach.
a piece of meat, tied to string, has
been introduced into the stomach thr'o
this orifce, aud after the lapse of Ger.
tain tine it has been pulled out again,
and th4 progress Of the digestive action
accurately noted. In this way, cornod
beef, for instance has been reduced to
mass of fine, deliberate and even threads,
after having beer for some time subjec.
ted to the action of gastric juice. An
other queer disclosure is the action Of
the stomach in case OF hunger, when tho
whole sack or bag known as the stomach,
is seen to roll aud work about. If kept
too long in this empty and restless con.
dition, the action Of the organ is weak.
ened-the stomach looses portion Of
its vital energy, and the digestion of
food taken at that time is performed
more slowly in consequence, The stom-
ach evidently requires rest, like the
body, aud it receives injury if this is not
allowed it; but it should not be long
without food.
Anger has tho effect to cause the bile
to rush into the stomach in stream
This has been observed with certainty
in the case Of St. Martin. When be
has been suddenly euraged, while lying
upon table, the bile has been seen to
rush into the stomach which was per-
fectly clear of il the instant before, and
ip such quantity as to admit of its bo-
ing emptied out freely in cup simply
by turning him over2
DR.. Bunting has taken voluminous
notes, and will publish book, setting
forth the result arrived at while St.
Martin has been under his charge. 1t
will be valuable addition to the exis
ting works on medicine and surgery.
ST. Martin, since he was wounded, has
married, and become the father of sew
entcen children, five Of whom, with his
usifa ora no,v living At first tha only