The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-22
FOR DYSPEPTICS.


DIR. J. W. Holland, of Louisville, KY,
gives the following sensible advice to
dyspeptics as to the food which they
should eat:
In the absence of trustworthy reports
from the invalid, it is convenient to have
ready a simple and nutritious dietary
which, having acted well on familiar cases
before, will probably be digested without
difficulty In the one under consideration.
The following directions will be appliga-
BILE to the majority of dyspeptics, who
can take solid food without pain, but
who suffer from water rash, heart burn.
sour stomach, sense of distension and
drowslness, with dull headache after
eating, fattilenuy, irregular action Of the
bowels, and the nervous symptoms CON-
monty called ''bihousness. BY regular
and moderate supplies of mixed food of
easy solubility, we expect to furnish sui
ficient nutriment that Will not leave an
unwholesome residue of partly changed
food to irritate and impede the organs of
digestion. Let the dyspeptie take three
meals day at regular hours. For break
fast and dinner, some kind of easily di-
should be served three hours before bed
time. It takes about FIVE hours for the
stomach to lid itself Of a meal of mixed
food, and any interference with its nat
ural course by eating between meals him
ders its perfect work Let him stop
short of the quantity which distends the
stomach or which brings on drowsy or
distressed feeling. AS a typical regimen,
it may be advis ed, that the flesh-former
Of breakfast should be broiled beefsteak
or mutton chop or chicken, or egg, soft
boiled on poacLed; butter, with stale
white or brown bread, and tea or coffee
or milk will complete it; at the midday
meal, roast beef or mutton or fowl, or
game, or oysters, mealy potatoes, and
stale bread or crackers; at supper, tea or
coffee or milk, with stale bread.
1t is the oft-repeated, experience of
athletes in training, who use the above
dietary, that when it is joined to regular
exercise all indigestion, bowel troubles.
palpitation Of the heart, and nervous
dread speedily disappear. If brain
worker, in practicing this regimen, finds
that meat at the midday meal impairs
the mentpl ease and clearness SO desira-
BILE during working hours, he can make
a lunch Of bread, ripe fruit and potatoes
and take the meat at supper.
AS a rule, ayspeptics are made uncom-
Portable by chocolate, which is very rich
in fat and sugar; by smoked, sailed, OF
fried meateof any kind, especially by
pork, by twice cooked hash, by salads,
by hot bread (nnless it be light corn
bread), and by pastry and sweatmeats.
It will be understood that this plan is
trough and ready" and will frequently
bear considerable modification At the
outset some can not take tea or coffee,
and others can not take milk. Much
latitude can be given if it does not con.
fiict with the individual experience. L
may include fish, ripe fruit, tender peas
beans, lettuce, and tomatoes when Their
is no complaint of fatulency. A very
concentrated diet, Or one made of sub.
stances SO perfectly digestible as to leave
but little residue, induces constipation
To counteract the habit of constipation
brown bread and trade article calico
the Graham cracker" may be eaten a
each meal. Unless forbidden by pre-
vious experience, q good corrective may
be found in cracked wheat and oat mea
mush for breakfast, boiled for severa
hours, so rs to make a coherent Jelly
permeable so the saliva