Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-16
Indigestion.

dyspepsia has sometimes been ella med
As the great American disease. A
Scotchman generally has smiling OF
a cold; an IriShman a smothering about
the heart; and an Englishman. as he
| Increases in red blood. is worried about
his liver. But yeur average American
Is dyspeptlc. except that for variety it s
now quite common to speak of it as
little touch of the malaria. We think
that there are some very good REASONS
why Indigestion, in some form or other.
Is very common complaint. 1t has
certainly become Il characteristic of the
nineteenth century, especially in Amer,
lra, TODD work in a somewhat hurried
way. There is development of the
nervous susceptibility at the expense of
those forces which have to do with di-
gestion and assimilation. Not onlv
does this make greater demands upon
Authorization, but in itself it interferes
directly with the process of digestion.
This has been tested by feeding persons
when under continued excitement. and
by comparison of the activity OF iirrs-
ton of two dogs fed precisely the same
and killed, the one after three hours of
rest and the other after three hours of
violent exercise. Besides. however. this
generol law. the habit OF rapid tv finds
its most active indulgence at the table
We once had occasion to wait in Il large
eating-hUuse of New York CITY to watch
the process of eating. 1t was marvel
Gus to see how many would finish q
meal IN ten minutes; how many more
in fifteen, including baked appie-dump-
ilngs rs a dessert. Even many of
those who stayed longer spent SO much
time in waiting or talking that the act
of eating was itself hurried.
Nothing that Il man does in life
should be more delib rated than that of
eating. This wonderful mechanism of
supply can not he too closely studied;
how the glands of the mouth are sup
piled with juices and lubricants so that
there may not enter into the stomach
any drinks at all or any food either so
dry or SO unme,licated as to be indiges-
::5le. If one had no teeth. very much
would be gained in the eating Of soft
food by moving it about with the
tongue. so as to stir well into it these
marvellous fluids which the chemistry of
Nature has provided. Then the teeth
of all varieties, shapes, sizes, with cut
ting edges. with grinding surfaces, are
unequaled by any mills of human con-
struction. The muscles which operate
them are used to crack walnuts BY
many child who does not use them
very much to masticate food. The orr
gin of very many eases of dyspepsia is
just in the fact that the mouth rs the |
mixing and grinding place of food is |
ignored. A well-chewed slice of fresh |
cucumbeT is not so indigestible as many |
think; but such 4 slice lodged whole |
against the mucous membrane of the |
ST t1y On
become source of irritation.
Ii food is we'll chewcd and thoroughly |
mixed the juices and the motions of the |
stomach seem to take comparatively
little heed OF lis composition. Food /
thus prepared for Il healthy stomach
can be of very composite admixture
and Yet not indigcStible. II is soon so
softeued and chymiiied aSin little GUAM
titles at 4 time to find its way through
the pylOric end OF the stomach. ready
for those other processes which take
place in the upper intestine. When. the
stomach i irritated the muscles here
often act in 4 spasmodic manner. and [
the stirring or periStaitic action il
greatly disturbed. The number that
recover from dyspepsia. when they find
out the errors of method they have
is so great as to show that
DO part of the human system is more
Inclined to keep right if only it has
chance. The great trouble is that, so
often ailments, which are Il direct result
OF errors in modes of eating or in the
used. are attributed to some
other cause. Heart palpitation very
often occurs from disturbed digestion.
SC-called liver complaint is generally a
form of mal-assmilatiOn. and it is ONLY
by adapting foods to the stomach and
upper intestine that, as a rule. we re-
lleve hepatic congestions or derange-
mentS. No greater progress has
marked medical chemistry and physics
than that which concerns the relation
Of foods to Authorization. The physical
trainer has so come to understand it and
to apply it directly and successfully in
all physical contests. There never has
been a time in all ages when it was so
possible to get right food. TO secure
right preparation of it by cooking and
and 10 get from it physical
forces, mental energy and capacity for
all progress There are some Chris
tians who would greatly develop their
graces by bringing their religion to
bear upon physical duties. and there
ire multitudes of Others who would i'm
prove in duty, comfort and capacity,
oy remembering that indigestion is gen
orally not inherited. but is positive
token of personal blunders.-N Y.
Fpncino Ont tho Rabbits