Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03
yspepsia.

In Enigmas Of Life" published by
J. r. Osgood 6 Co., we read of the vast
amount of personal misery which arises
from dyspepsia. Perhaps this malady is
answerable, directly or Indirectly, for
more unhappiness, and does more to low
er the general tone and average of human
enjoyment, than any other. We all of
us know something of it, many of US
know it well. We generally lay the foun-
datlon in childhood, or in our first youth,
by reckless and ignorant self-indulgence
the fault of parents and teachers, you
will say, and what they could have check
ed in time, had they known and valued
the laws OF physiology. True; but we
ourselves ale, or have been, or will be,
those very parents and teachers. Then,
do we not ourselves commit much the
same follies as our children? When we
eat, as we habitually do, more than is
good for US; when we eat, as most of us
do, what we know will disagree with us;
when the pleasures of the palate tempt us
to do more than satisfy our hunger or re-
cruit our strength; when we drink alco-
hol, not because we need it, but because
we like 1t; when we take second glass,
not because second was required, but
because the first was very good; when
smoking becomes regular habit, instead
Of an occasional indulgence; in all these
cases we are sowing seeds for an inevita-
BILE harvest-we are diligently earning
our wages and mourning a recorded
obligation. If only all wages were as
well earned and all debts as certain to be
paid When we sit lazily in our arm
chair under circumstances which
indicate that we ought TO be in active ex-
ercise; when we sit in close rooms and in
a vitiated atmosphere, instead of breath
ing the clear air Of heaven; when we go
on toiling and thinking long after our
sensations warn us that we have expend-
ed the income and are drawing on the
capital of our cerebral strength; when
ever, IN word, we neglect the plainest
physiological laws (Which it is difficult
not to read whenever our attention is
drawn to them), then we are laying the
foundation of that functional disorder of
the digestive organs which entails so GER
tain and so sad penalty. J arl skepti-
cal about stomachic ailments which a
man has done nothing to decerve. I
scarcely believe In any which either he or
his progenitors have not worked hard to
generate. [ believe, moreover, that there
are few which, however induced origi-
naily, may not be cured or keptin bounds,
even after mature age is reached, by
sedulous care scientifically directed We
are most of US familiar with the case Of
Cornaro, who, awakening at forty years
OF age to the consciousness Of a shattered
constitution, yet contrived, by spacious
observation and incessant vigilance, to
recover the tone of an outraged and fee
bic stomach, and lived in laughing COM
fort to green old age.
A MONKEY, finding heap of cocoanuts,
gnawed into one, then dropped it, gag
ging bideously 'Now, this is what I
cali perfectly disgustingw said he. 81
can never leave anything lying about but
some one comes along and puts quantity
Of nasty milk in it!' A cat just then hap
pening to pass that way began rolling the
cocoanuts about with her paw. "Yeowr'
she exclaimed; cit is enough to vex the
soul of castiron dog! Whenever I set
out any milk to cool, somebody comes
and seals it up as tight as drum" Then
percelving one another, and each think
ing the other the offender, these enraged
animals collided, and wrought mutual
determination, whereby two worthy con-
sumers were lost to society, and a guam
tity Of excellent food had TO be given to
the poor.
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