Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-02
BOWEL DERANGEMENTS.
Tho Danger OF the Afiictlon and Its Most
Natural Treatment.

Tho Danger OF tho AHiiction and Its Most
Natural Treatment.
That the worst forms of bowel com
plants result, and that directly, from
eating and drinking, far more than from
climate and sudden changes of the
temperature, can not admit of a reason
able doubt. Most of this indigestion is
referable to rapid eating, insufficient
chewing, the food, as it reaches the stom-
ach, being unprepared for the second
stage of the digestive process, from the
use of improper food, that too taxing to
the digestive organs, the use of crude
and unripe, or partially decayed fruits,
to irregularity in eating, excess, etc.
And here it may be remarked that it is
rare while so many are governed far
more by mere taste, than by the judg-
ment and conscience, in the selection of
their food, to have due regard to the
proper proportion of the various kinds OF
food used, while the majority take far
more food than the system demands.
This may be particularly true in the
use of meats and fruits in a country in
which both can be had in abundance,
ordinarily, if one has the means for the
purchase of them. While it is gener-
ally admtted-in modern times that
ripe and fresh fruits are wholesome,
these may be particularly used in eX-
cess, often proving a curse rather than
a blessing, in accordance with their de-
sign. This follows, in part, from the
fact that some persons regard them as
outside the realm of food, to be taken
at any time, in any quantities, as a
mere sensual indulgence. Instead OF
being taken as a part of the meals, they
are often taken in large quantities, at
the close, in addition to sufficient
quantity of food, and between meals,
severely taxing the digestive organs.
Though most of these are easy OF di-
gestion, compared with ordinary foods,
there is an added labor, too often crush
ing tolls, so deranging the stomach that
much undigested food passes into the
bowels in an unprepared state, irritat-
ing and inflaming them, preparing the
way for serious arrangements and
disease.
will here remark that dysentery is
usually preceded by constipation, and
that, as strange as it may seem, this
state, stoppage, continues during the
worst stage of the disease, the improve.
ment Immediately following the relief
If physic may ever be given, this is the
time for its administration, during dyS-
entery! 1t is p matter of vital impor-
tance to avoid having any crude or I'M
dgested food pass into the bowels in
this disease. The disease is continued,
aggravated and often rendered uncon-
trollable by such irritants, to avoid
which it is necessary to discard solid
food-even milk, which solidifies be-
fore digestion taking liquids which
will in no respect tax digestion, still af-
fording all needed nourishment. Such
liquids can be prepared from thin
Cruel made of the "crude gluten, y
strained and perfectly clear, very nour
ishlng and bland. This may be given
once in two hours if needed, as it does
not require digestion, being assimilated
in the circulatory system. This will
) furnish all needed nourishment, though
it may be well to add little pure and
clear juice of such fruits as the peach
ripe and fresh, in its best condition
with that of similar fruits With sucf
foods, with no irritants introduced int
the bowels, often cleansed by warn
water injections, the disease ought sool
to Weld. j. H. Hanatord, in Gold
en- Rale.