The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-07-28
Dyspepsia.

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
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. It
is very rare that we find the hands of
any two persons agree exactly in form,
proportion, color, symmetry, even
though 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
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.
give tried to eat oat meal and veoe-
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. L must have 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 large stom-
ach and vigorous circulatOry system
can absorb large quantities of plain
cold food and find nutriment and COM
fort in it. To SUI person condi-
ments are superfu..ies, 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 a 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 andworks 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
another Strawberries; to another, onions;
to another, cheese; and yet these foods
are good for the majority of eaters.
Some can make a satisfactory meal of
one dish, others require a variety of
dishes to keep their stomachs complai-
SAINT. The same person under one set
OF circumstances will relish and digest
foods that under others would be abhor-
rent and sickening 10 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
tlIlNc vi tue uIcl' 11t HAS DccH ONcI-
fed and now it benefits him to be under
fed. Another, who has had his fill. 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 a steady adherence to this dish
will cause dyspepsia in the toughest
stomach.
The average farmer sets a very poor
table. If he has milk in abundance, it
is generally skim milk or buttermilk or
clabber, and the cream is saved for but
ter to sell. He has too much to do, or
thinks he has, to provide his table with
asparagus, celery, the small fruits and
the finer vegetables. He insists that
''plain food is healthy" He comes in
hungry from the field, bolts his meals
in the shortest possible space of time,
not stopping to enjoy the flavor of the
dishes or ''roll them as sweet morsel
under his tongue" not stopping to sea-
son them with pleasant conversation,
and then hurries to the field again,
leaving the stomach to do its work as
best it can. The patient, abused organ
staggers on under the cruel loads i'm
posed on it until at last it is powerless
to act, and then its cruel master suffers
the torments of dyspepsia. We have il
from high authority that the chief
market for the patent medicines SC
largely sold for the cure of dyspepsia
and of liver and kidney troubles is
among the farmers and their families.
Probably no one organ of the body re-
ceives more constant and habitual
ill-treatment than the stomach. A
man wouldn't think of thrusting sticks
into his liver or pins into his heart, but
he will swallow grape seeds and cherry
stones and watermelon seeds, and cal
raw turnips and uncooked cucumbers,
and then wonder that he feels badly.
The stomach can do nothing with these
things but pass them along, and so OF
the other organs that try to assim ilate
them. They are as indigestible as cob
blestones, and pass from the body un-
changed. When the laws of the stom.
ach are violated, its necessities ignored.
its eXpostulations UNDECIDED and it be-
comes at last outraged beyond endur-
ance, it exercises the last right of on.
pressed creatures and revolts, Their
Mischief, thou art afoot!h The treas.
ury is empty and bankruptcy inevitably
follows. Those in whom this dire rev.