The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-28
INDIGESTION.
A Paper by J. Miner Fother-
gill, M. d.
HOW TO AVOID THE DISEASE.
what Should be Eaten anc What For
bidden-AlcOhOlic Drinks, and
their Effects. ~

Strong beef-tea, made from almost
+obulous amounts of beef, on which the
hoAsewife proudly dilates-welI, it is the
fashion, SO it must be spoken of with
,ircumspection-is fraud! or some
hing akin thereto. Its food value has
,si to be demonstrated! Not long ago
caIyes-feet jelly was indispensable in
conditions of debility; its day is now
over, it is little heard of
Strong beef-tea, meat essences, meat
iuices, are pleasant; and certainly
natients think they are the proper thing
for the debilitsted. Well, they may be
so; if and provided they take something
else as well. But to give the starving
natient. starving in the midst of plenty,
these things to feed him, Is giving him
a stone when he asks Tor bread. Il
little light food which can be digested is
Infinitely better for him.
This is something like what should be
arrived at:
Breakfast: porridge, oatmeal, or
hominy, with milk, to start with; to set
the children a good examplel
Then a little cold meat or bacon, or
fish, with cup of coffee, tea or cocoa.
Lunch: some potatoes mashed with
plenty of milk and butter, better still
cream, peppered and sailed, and
Drowned before the fire. la-r.
A little cold minced meat in thin
LAYER, not to be further cooked, but only
to be make hot, may be added. Some
cold milk pudding, left over from the
dinner of the day before, and some
stewed fruit. A glass OF milk, claret, or
sherry, may be permissible. Let 1t be
little. No glasses OF wine betwixt meals
to whip one up" Such habet is bad,
very bad! .r..
Dinner: little light soup, some boiled
fish, very little joint or some game, or
entrce like sWeetbread. or spinach and a
poached egg; some milk pudding, and
stewed fruit.
Wine, two glasses of the wines men
toned, or perhaps if the patient be very
sure that it does good, and suits better
than anytime else - one glass OF port
wine. Aerated waters are Objectionable,
they are too gaseous; while alkaline
waters are not good at meal-tlmes. they
reduce the acidity of the stomach which
is essential to the digestive action in the
said stomach.
NOW dS W QcSScIb. Oil
going to be heret cal, perhaps only "a
little advanced" Nuts are certainly not
to be advocated for the dyspeptic.
Oranges, pomeloes and shaddocks, are
like grapes, unobjectionable if the juice
only be swallowed; apples, pears, p,ums,
gooseberries, cherries, straw berries, each
and all are good. The salts, potash and
others. of sub-acid fruits are good for
1.-The blood" Often these fruits are for
hidden unnecessarily. If they disagree
let them be avoided; experience must
be the sole Judge of their admissibility.
Only they need not be eschewed whole
sale, as is too much the rule.
Bananas, figs. pineapples, raisins,
preserved peaches and apricots. when
the fresh fruit cannot be obtained, are
also good; candied fruits perhaps are
not as a rule admissible.
Supper: a draught of milk and an ar
rowroot biscuit is, the best and lightest.
It is rarely required except after an
early dinner. n
Some persons, however, must take
their food at short intervals, because
they can only digest little at once.
When the fast betwixt supper and
breakfast is too long little milk and
biscuit in7the small hours of the morn
ing may be taken; or tumbler of milk
with teaspoonful of wine or brandy in
it may be taken on getting out of bed to
dress. With some persons this enables
them to take fair breakfast. ---
Some persons can eat no breakfast.
Not uncommonlv tethey eat their break
fast before going 10 bed ~ they make
good supper; this is very common with
business people who work hard all day,
and have no rest till supper time. The
mistress of business requiring much
personal attention is apt to do this. She
commonly becomes dyspeptic; |; f her
digestion can stand this outrage, usual
" she ultimately becomes the subject of
govt, in some one or other of its many
forms.
Some dyspeptics find that they must
take no fluids with their TODD, and have
to 1--we on 3 very dry dietary, an Arab
dietary Others require more fluids
than they allow themselves. Others re-
ouire biscuit or some light article of
food "betwixt meals" When this is
made an excuse for glass of sherry, it
is to be closely criticized as question
able habit. more honored in the breach
than in the observance. To take some
fruits would be better in every way.
Some succulent fruit would satisfy the
craving "tor something" and would not
require the beverage ITO get it down."
Such use of fruit ought to more general
than it is at present. In all households
where the expense does not forbid it, q
large dish of picked fruit of various
kinds, when the season permits of it,
should be placed on the side-board every
morning, with label Help YOURSELF
on it las is found in the waiting rooms
of several London consultants.) Chill
dren would soon cease to overeat them
selves, Just as do the assis tants in con-
fectioners' shops when they realize that,
it is to be constant affair, not an &C.
casional treat to be made the most of.
Such an idea is well worthyot adoption.
If the Temperance" section of society
would set the example, it would soon
be followed by Others, to the benefit Of
the digestive organs of many. while it
would be agreeable to all. Fresh gath.
cred fIuit out of the garden and orchard
ought to be placed on the breakfast
table every morning. For those who
experience bitter or hot taste in the
morning on awakening, such addition
to the breakfast table would cbe most
accountable