St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-01-03
A CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA.
Making "Good Digestion Walt on Appe-
tite, and Health ON Both" -


| tite. and Health ON Both" -
The English press are at present dis
cussing Mr.. Andrew w. Tuer's method
of making "good digestion wait on ap-
petite and health on both" He wrote
an article on this most important sub
| ject for Chambers Journal and it must
have done good, for that popular publi-
cation has universal circulation. The
general opinion in America is that En-
glishmen never have dyspepsia, but this
seems popular error. Mr.. Andrew w.
Tuer thinks dyspeptics should be
.fewer," so he fixed up dose, which
we may suppose will result in perfect
sscuern
Mr.. Tuer's remedy is glycerine-un-
pretixed with nitro, of course. No doubt
dose of nitro glycerine and some hearty
exercise after it would effectually cure
dyspepsia and other ills the flesh is heir
to. However, the difficulty of getting
enough of the patient together
to hold an inquest on after the
operation of nitro-glycerine no
doubt impressed itself upon Mr..
Tuer, so he contents himself with plain
glycerine, which is not so boisterous in
its results. Nitro-glycerine is one of
those remedies that are not to be shaken
after being taken. Mr.. Tuer says: A
drachm of glycerine mixed in half a
wine-glassful of water is to be swal-
lowed with, or Immediately after each
meal until the enemy takes to flight,
which in an ordinary case will be in
from one to two days, and in an obsti-
nate one, perhaps fortnight. Sooner
or later, unless the predisposing causes
are removed, another attack will follow,
and the glycerine will have to be re-
sumed.
'.Predisposing causes" having been
referred TO. it must now be the endeavor
to find out what they are, SO that a per-
feet cure may be effected and the glyce-
rine discarded altogether. Ones own
common sense would suggest that food
known to disagree should be avoided.
Indigestion is often set up at the earli-
est and. to the dyspeptic, the ightest
meal of the day, at which he probably
confines himself to crisp toast buttered
as soon as cold, bread-and-butter with
very lightly boiled egg, or little
fat bacon, the whole moistened with a
little tea. In the word just used, ..moist-
ened," probably lies the '.predisposing
cause" The food, when only half
chewed. is moistened with sip of tea
to expedite its departure to the stomach,
but to insure its digestion, be it ever so
simple, the food must be thoroughly
smasticated and receive during the pro-
cess the necessary moisture from the
saliva. Food should be swallowed with
out extraneous aid in a liquid form, and
ought never to be washed down. A sip
of tea may be taken between the bites,
but not when there is food in the mouth,
of which fair quantity ought to be dis
posed of before the tea is even thought
of. The tea itself. by being slowly
slipped, receives its share of the saliva
and is rendered more digestible. And
this assertion is borne out by the fact
that many persons who can not digest
milk when gulped or drunk down quick
ly, readily do so whenit is slowly slipped.
The habit of taking ones breakfast in
the manner recommended is so very
easily acGnired that, after the first trial,
no inconvenience.w will be felt; in fact,
the food will be. enjoyed and the pleas
ure of the meal greatly increased. In
discretions committed at the dinner
table are credited as the cause of many
dyspeptic attacks, but probably more
may be traced to the pernicious habit
indicated and indulged in BY SO many
persons at breakfast and tea.
A final hint as to the tea at breakfast.
The epicurean method of making it, and
that, we believe, practiced by profess
sional tea-tasters, is to put single
spoonful-let it be of the best and with
out any admixture of green-into
breakfast cup. which is filled up with
boiling water, covered with plate or
saucer, and allowed to stand for three
minutes only, when-after decanting
into another cup. so as to dispose of the
leaves, which will remain behind-the
tea is made. Sugar is added to taste,
and lastly, milk-and very little, II any
of it. Tea made in this manner is not
only deliciously aromatic, but most di-
gestible; for the bitter tannin. which is
apt to Extraordinarily to .tan-the
food in the stomach, is left behind
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