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A New Mode of Treating Dyspepsia.

The first number of the Z" Archives of
Science and Practical Medicine" the
new monthly. edited by DIR. Brown Sc
guard, and published by the Lippin-
colts, contains, among other interesting
and able articles, enc in which the
editor describes novel mode of treat
ment which he tried with perfect sue
cess is very bad case of dyspepsia in
1851, and which has since been tested,
with more or less satisfactory results,
in many cases of dyspepsia, chlorosis
and an@mia. The following is an
extract from an account of the first case:
After few days, finding that he had
not improved, l decided to try radl-
cal change of his ailments. as regards
the quality of food to be taken at q
time. Instead of three meals day, l
made him take sixty or more. Every
twelve or fifteen minutes he took two
or three mouthfuls of solid TODD,
chiefly meat and bread. He drank a
little less than a wine-glass of Bor-
deaux wine and water every thirty or
forty minutes. On the very first day
this method of alimentation was be-
gun his digestive trouble disappeared,
and within week he was so well that
he returned to Paris.
He continued the same mode of ali
mentation for almost three weeks, and
then gradually diminished the number
of his homeopathic meals, aud in
creased the amount taken at each of
them, until in about eight or ten days
he came to eat only three times a
day, and full meal at each time.
The following paragraphs will serve
to give the reader a clearer idea of the
treatment commended:
The plan consists in giving but very
little OF solid or fluid food or any kind
of drink at time, and giving these
things at regular intervals of from ten
to twenty or thirty minutes. All sorts
of food may be taken in this way, but
during the short period when such
trial Is made, 1t is obvious that the
fancies of the patients are To be laid
aside, and that nourishing food, such
as roasted or broiled meat, and especi-
ally beef, mutton, eggs, well baked
bread, and milk, with butter and
cheese, aud a very moderate quantity
of vegetables and fruit, ought to con-
stitute the dietry of the patients we try
to relieve. This plan should be pur-
sued two or three weeks, after which
the patient should gradually return to
the ordinary system of eating three
times day.
The most varied diet as regards the
kind of food can be followed under
this plan as well as when one has only
two or three meals a day. The only
absolutely essential points are, that
the amount of food taken every ten,
fifteen, twenty or thirty minutes be
very small (from one to four mouth
fuls), and the quantity of solid food in
a day from thirty-two to forty ounces,
or a little less when, instead of water,
the patient drinks beef tea or milk.
Dr. Brown Sequard considers that
the facts observed under this treat
ment confirm 3" the view that we are
naturally organized, like most, if not
all animals, to eat frequently, and not,
as we do, two. three or four times a
day. and that functional dyspepsia,
when once ii has begun (neyer mind by
what cause) is kept up or increased by
distention of the walls Of the stomach. "
IL might be supposed that there would
be trouble from the dlstention of the
stomach on the return of the ordinary
system Of meals, after several weeks Of
the treatment described, but in no case
has hr found this TO occur. Boston
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