Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-08
1906 plus 1861 equal 90, 997
About Dyspepsia.

DID you ever have the dyspepsia? Did
you ever have-Or ever imagine you had
"a complication Of all known, and seve-
raj unknown diseases? If yes, then you
have had the dyspepsia, or its full equiva-
lent. Chronic dyspepsia may be defined
as an epitome of every complaint where
with transgressing mortality is scourged.
1t is as nice thing to have about you as
a trunkfal of tarantulas, with the trunk
lid always up. An eminent English ply
stefan has said: GA man with bad dys-
pepsia is william" He is, and worse.
He is by turns fend, a moral monster,
and a physical coward-and he cannot
help it. He is his own bott0mlesS pit,
and his own demon at the bottom of it,
which torments him continually with
pangs Undesirable.
When a worm of the business dust of
this world has writhed with dyspepsia
until it has assumed virulent chronic
form, who shall find colors and abili-
ties varied enough to paint his condition?
His blood becomes first pOverty-stricken
then impure, and, as "blood will tell"
every part Of his system is contaminated
by the foul stream The brain complains
bitterly on its own account, and vehem-
ent complaints are being continually sent
up to it from the furnishing liver, bowels,
spleen. heart and lungs. Like "sweet
bells tangled out Of tune" the entire ora
ganizatiOn breathes discords. Even the
remote toes telegraph up to the brain
eve are starving down here for want OF
provender." The brain makes reQuisi-
tons on the stomach, which are futile.
The stomach is pOWerless to provide, and
the brain cannot transmit. At times
oil -I,n NIrn TO-
gether, suspend work and under
take to compass by riot what they
fail to get by appeal. Then life trem BILE
in the balance. Then the consolation
0, the consolation-that is visited on the
dyspeptic. Friends-when he is lifeless
from lack of vitality-friends will exas-
perate him with taunts of being "lazy,"
"shiftless," "indOlent," and without am
bitionw Nor can his friends be made to
appreciate that it is as preposterous to
expect one who is undergoing constant
torture and consequent exhaustion to
have ambition" as it would be to expect
a corpse to have an appetite. Remedy
everybOdy's advice-that is, ride every
bodY's hobby. Cure: death. Drugs are
but aggravations, and "bitters' are bitter
indeed. We have heard Of chronic dys-
peptic who took his cue from his chick
ems, and by swallowing daily moderate
handful of gravel stones OF the size OF
pea downward, finally succeeded IN trans
| forming 'cue" into ''cure." He claimed
| cOmplete restoration. In the face OF this
evidence to the contrary, we re-assert that
for chronic dyspepsia in its worst form
! there is but one certain cure-absolute
rest. Preventive: take as good care OF
| the coats of your stomach as you 40 OF
the coats of your backs Do you wish
for faith in God, in human love, IN earth
" happiness, in the benefcence OF nature
and in immortality? Keep your digestion
Would you prefer an abiding faith in tor
be? DESTROY your digestion. Would
YOU live in the body forever2 Keep your
digestion in full vigor; and although 15g the the
end of the world may come your en-. enc
it. Old age is but the failure Of nutri
ton. Nutrition is life; non-nurition Is
death.-O0erE07d Monthly.