Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-12-07
Dyspepsia Cure.

LEROY SUNDERLAND, of Quincy, Mass,
contributes the following to the Rural
New Yorker:
In the Rural New Yorker of Oct. 81
there are pills" and decoctions" pre-
scribed for dyspepsia and another writer
calls for a "remedy for liver complaint"
These articles remind me Of the story told
of the celebrated English physician, who,
being called upon by Responding dys-
peptic for remedy" for his complaint,
the doctor said to him, my fee is five
guineas ! That paid and / will give you
prescription that is infallible" The dys-
Dcptic, without hesitatng a moment,
handed over the fee, when the doctor
handed back to him the following pre-
scription Live on sixpence ii day, and
earn it."
The writer has been forty years in the
wilderness" Of the "pcstle' and "pill
Of dyspepsia and 'liver complaint" by
following out this method.
There is a story told of another physi.
clan that stood in the front ranks Of the
medical profession who prescribed 1.-THE
oil Of the axe handle" as sovereign
cure" for liver complaint this coil" to be
SIuttLtu OuL C|clN Ntdg tllopplH5 Noo''.
Chop said the doctor. eth you feel
and see the 'oil' dropping from your face. ?"
While giving "A course Of lectures in New
York some years since on hygiene, Ger
man doctor told me the following. He was
applied to by man suffering from diar-
rbea, when the doctor wrote his prescrip
ton, and, handing it to the patient, said :
There, take that" The sick man took
tJo ,,onor opI lannr+nJ Tn faur dave
he returned to the doctor to pay his bill,
when the latter inquired if the remedy"
was successful, and the patient at once de-
gave him had certainly cured him; ''but,"
said he, II found it difficult Job to swal-
low it,
There are but few, if any, cases of dys-
pepsia or liver complaint but which have
been brought on by the habits of living;
that is the fault is in the food, or owing to
its kind and quantity In quantity it is out
of proportion to the amount of regular
and appropriate exercise taken ! could
give the cases of hundreds like the follow
ing:
DR.. S. r. L., age sixty, of nervous bill
ious temperament for fifteen years, had
had dyspepsia constipation and sick
took to hard work in his garden, ten years
ago, and without particle of medicine,
he has been perfectly well ever since
have seen the worst forms Of dyspepsia
and of liver complaint cured without
medicine. The proverb says Nature
performs the cure, and the doctor gets the
credit" Live on simple food, such as
boiled wheat or parched corn. Eat no
bread except that made of unsifted meal
In Germany there is popular method
known as the "Raisin Cure" because
the diet of the patient consists exclusive
ly of that fruit during the process of treat
mcnt. / know aman now in good health
who has lived five years on fruits eXclu-
sively The true method of cure points
out what is to be done, or left undone; it
is not "dose" to be swallowed. Undo
all you have done to get sick, and good
health must follow as the result.
TO the above the editor of the Rural
New Yorker adds:
There Is as much dyspepsia among hard
working men or women as among those
who are supposed to do nothing. Espe-
cially among farmers it prevails; and it is
often due to the fact that they bolt down
their food in great haste, bolt away from
the table and out into the field to work
without giving the stomach time to assm-
ilatc and digest the food it has received.
1t is one of the most prolific causes of
dyspepsia among workingmen. A half
or whole hours rest should follow the
eating of hearty meal