Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-09-09
Scientific.
HOW TO EAT.
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volumes written; and vet Ms often
mas thelvery point been missed which
ought never to have been forgotten.
VIZ, that we must listen to the voice
oil nature. In our present enlightened
age OF science, and spelling made easy.
most OF us Know that one OF the first
receiving houses for food is a double
mouthed bag, lightly slung i'm the space
Deiow the end of the breast-bone, and
calleda stomach that this bag is rather
q complex struture, furnished with
Diood-vcsse and glands which keep
IL IN working order, and with a set of
nerves, which telegraph to the brain
Wnen the working is out of order. The
Inludle ana outer coats of this bag have.
some muscles handily interviewer. and
tnese aaenlore plentiful and stronger at
the lower mouth of the bag, and act
me part of doorkeeper, to prevent re-
Iractory morseis of food from boiling
through the opening, as raw recruits
Ior tne bowels. Then, for the blood
eesseis, the very term implies the
Junction and the glands, what are
shey lor 10 secrete juices which shall
heIP 70 digest the food while the nerves
are the geographic system which per-
meates the whole structure, and sig
mails very distinctly to the brain when
Dlood-Vessel, gland or muscle. is fail
ing to do its respective duty, or doing
this duty inefficiently. If, then, we
can bear in mind two great facts con-
nected with the stomach, namely
that it has, first'a set of blood-vessels.
ana therefore can be inflamed and. sec
ondly, that it has nerves, and therefore
can be pained,-w may perhaps feel
more disposed to be cautious of our
treatment of the same. Luckily for us.
IL is good stout bag, and will stand
plenty OF wear and tear; but the pro-
verbal camel has its back broken by
the last load, and the stoutest leather
VIII occasionally give way, instead of
stretched to circumstances; so is il to
be wondered at that the stomach some
times strikes work
My reader may ask, "How am to
tell whether this or that food agrees or
disagrees with me?" | answer. "By
your sensations" The nerves will tel
egraph the state of affairs. At first
uneasiness, and then pain, will tell yo;i
whether the food you have taken has
agreed, or the reverse. And, indeed.
IL - aquestion of agreement; you must
come To terms with your stomach for
II you DO not, 1t will eject the unwel-
come ledger, or pinch and gripe YOU
INTO submission. So that by listening
Ia Tune To the warning given by pain
ana uneasincss, you may avoid the
lifelong trouble of Indigestion.
! have spoken of the stomach indi-
vidually as separate organ, because
iIls perhaps regenerally understood,
IL not more generally talked of; but we
must not forget the part played Ivy the
bowels in the great drama of ,iIpes-
tlon. Your stomach is out of order"
Is about the first sentence uttered by
the medical man to his patient who
shows HIM furred tongue. Sir Eyre
has discoursed pleasantly and well on
The Stomach and its difficulties
have weak stomach is the COM
plant OF dyspeptic. 1t is as / said
before, good, stout organ, and will
bear much rough work; and il is well
for us that Nature has so constructed
1t, Tor when so many bolt their food
with little or no mastication, how nee
essary IS II TO have another set of teeth
lower down, 10 reduce the precipitate
morseis To that more harmless COM
pound known as chyme. This is what
the stomach does for us,-it remasti-
Gates our food, -only the teeth are
replaced by certain juices, the constit-
uents of which are a Babylonian mys-
terry to Psychologists. The stomach
thus does the first bard work that has
been shirked or slurred over by the
teeth and, though supplied SO richly
with blood-vessels, is rarely attacked
by inflammation; showing that, after
all, we must look to the poor neglected
bowels for most of our digestive troub-
les.
There are instances of the great en-
durance of the human stomach; but
they are by no means examples for us
to turn fire-eaters or Indian jugglers,
hut rather to warn us against making
any rash trials of the powers of the
stomach for there is one little peculi-
| arity about this organ,-that, after
| repeated attemps to stay the progress
| of toughs morsel, the valve which
| stops unlawful exports becomes weary,
| and passes the contraband wares
| through sheer fatigue. The consequence
| Is, that the fragments which withstood
the peptic machinery of the stomach
not only defy, but wound the more
| delicate surface of the bowels,
| Pause then a moment before raising
a tough, though tempting morsel to
the mouth, and think of the journey
| 1t will undertake, when it has once
fairly shot the rapids of the gullet, and
got into the seething current of food
that whirls and eddies in the great
stomach lake below; and, as lighter
craft glide safely over the Canadian
rapids, so let your food morsel be light,
and the transit will lose all danger.
Given, therefore, a stomach, strong
|
| conscience, and bowels delicate and
| mpressiOnable-is il not fair that Ma
| ture makes us suffer through these or
gans, when we insult her so grossly by
irritating them with bad food, III
cooked, half masticated, and wholly
unfit for the purposes of nutrition +?
| We deserve 10 suffer, and richly too.
Sometimes we pour cehmical COM
| pounds into the beautiful labatory of
| Nature, and call them stimulants, but
our chemistry is ill-applied. Stimu-
| lants they are in one sense, for they
excite the coats of the stomach and
| bowels into state of chronic inflam-
nation. But this is not the whole sum
of our folly. Barely satisfied with the
| mischief already worked by bad food
and Yillanous drink, we crown all by
veXing the unotlending liver. "moTe
sinned againsttha SHINING" with blue
| pill, and the already wounded bowels
with black draught. Is it wonderful
that we suffer? Is 1t surprising that
we fall sick? How about that pain
behind the shoulders, rs If somebody
had knocked you down with a paving
stone; and that pain in the stomach,
as If the same assailant had trampled
on you when you were down? Did
not that tough, leathery fragment,
served as a steak, and chewed like rhi-
noceros hide, play some part IN origin
ating these pains? Aud did not the
walter, puttiag decantcr before you
with an iuky tluid i'm il, call il wine ?
PoIt wine / think he called il, and mis-
quoted the year of its birth by quar-
ter of IA century. And did not pour
this liquid fire over the infamatory
steak below, swallowed but not d.