The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-27
Dyspepsia.


Dyspepsia.
This malady, which is so much conn
planned of and seems to be so wide
spread, arises from various causes and
is cured in various ways. Many peo-
pie imagine that the internal organs in
all individuals are the same, and that
like treatment will produce.like results
in everybody. The internal organs are
alike in different people just as their
faces, hands, feet, figures. are alike.
A celebrated surgeon who has attended
a thousand autopsies says that the
aspects of the inside of bodies vary As
noticeably as the aspects of the outside
of the same bodies, and we know that
the variations in these are infinite. 1t
is very rare that we find the hands of
any two persons agree exactly in form,
proportion, color, symmetry, even
t5e..yh the same number of glove may
be worn by both. The same thing is
true of the other external members of
the body, and equally so Of the internal
organs, the heart, the lungs, the liver,
the stomach, and all the rest. Just as
q man must have his clothes made to
order if they are to be perfect fit, just
as he must have his own last for his
shoes, and his own measure for his
gloves, so he must fit his stomach with
food convenient" for it.
'.I've tried to eat oat meal and vege-
tables and graham bread and do with
out meat and fine flour" said an author
to an expounder of hygienic living on
the vegetarian plan, 'but can't write
on such food. must have n generous
diet or my brain won't work" The
professor was man of sense, and look
ing over the complainant carefully, re-
Piled: ..Your stomach is small and you
need concentrated foods; meat, eggs
and fine flour with fruits are your prop
er diet" A person with a large stom-
ach and a vigorous circulatory SYSTEM
can absorb large quantities of plain
cold food and find nutriment and COM
fort in it. To such person condi-
ments are superfiuities, but with per-
son of limited capacity of eating and
feeble circulation, warm food and veg
etable are not only grateful but neces-
sary. Even sheep like spicy bushes,
and when they are permitted to run
wild in the woods, regale themselves on
aromatic herbs and shrubs, and by this
food their flesh acquires gamy flavor.
The kind of work a person does large
ly determines the quality and quantity
of food he requires. Corn bread. cab
bage, pork, onions, potatoes, apples.
supply the necessary elements wanted
by the average workingman in the open
air; but the man who uses his brains as
well as his hands and works indoors will
not thrive on this diet, and he who uses his
brains and not his muscles will not find
it all suited to his needs. What he will
find suited to his needs he can deter
mine only by experiment, and this is
true more or less of every individual.
To one oysters are an active poison; to
Strawberries; to another. onions;
to another, cheese; and yet these foods
are good for the majority of eaters.
Some can make satisfactory meal OF
one dish, others require variety OF
dishes to keep their stomachs complai-
SAINT. The same person under one set
foods that under others would be abhor-
rent and sickening 20 him. One who
has been surfeited with rich and varied
bills of fare will settle down to the mush
and brown bread of some Cure" and
thrive on the diet. He has been over
fed and now it benefits him to be under
fed. Another, who has had his ELL OF
lean fare at home will loathe the mush
and brown bread and suffer Indigestion
from eating it. One who has enjoyed a
choice of dainties may possibly find "hog
and hominy" tolerable when "roughing
it," but steady adherence to this dish
will cause dyspepsia in the toughest
The average farmer sets a very poor
able. If he has milk in abundance, it
IS generally skim milk or buttermilk or
and the cream is saved for but
.er to sell. He has too much to do, or
links he has, to provide his table with
asparagus, celery, the small fruits and
he finer vegetables. He insists that
plain food is healthy" He comes in
hungry from the field, bolts his meals
n the shortest possible space of time,
not stopping to enjoy the flavor of the
fishes or roll them as a sweet morsel
lnder his tongue" not stopping to sea-
'on them with pleasant conversation,
md then hurries to the field again,
eaving the stomach to do its work as
,est it can. The patient, abused organ
taggers on under the cruel loads i'm
,osed on it until at last it is powerless
o act, and then its cruel master suffers
he torments of dyspepsia We have it
rom high authority that the chief
market for the patent medicines so
argely sold for the cure of dyspepsia
nd of liver and kidney troubles is
mong the farmers and their families.
no one organ of the body re-
elves more constant and habitual
ll-treatment than the stomach. A
nan wouldn't think of thrusting sticks
nto his liver or pins into his heart. but
e will swallow grape seeds and cherry
tones and watermelon seeds, and eat |
aw turnips and uncooked cucumbers,
nd then wonder that he feels badly. !
he stomach can do nothing with these /
Kings but pass them along, and so of
ne other organs that try to assim late
hem. They are as indigestible as cob
lestones, and pass from the body I'M
hanged. When the laws of the stom-
CHI are violated, its necessities ignored.
5 expostulations UNDECIDED and it be-
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