The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-08-19


The depressing emotions, grief,
anxiety and the like, tend directly to
derange health, and intellectual la
Dor indirectly by its facilitating in
iluence.
FOOD.
In general, the food that is palata-
bic and digestiblc is best. The al
most exclusive use of flesh food in
pulmonary diseases is not judicous
any more than it would be in health.
The cereals as the staple food are
preferable to any other form, and
wheat, the queen of the cereals, is
better than eats, more digestible, and
more accurately adapted to the wants
of the system. Hence wheat-meal is
preferable to oatmeal.
1t has never boon demonstrated
that cod-lIyer oil is better in pull
monary cases than other fats, and it
should never be taken when it dis
turbs the stomach.
Ny opinion is that in most cases
solid fats, as it comes on the table,
will be found better than the oil.
Solid fats, in general, are more man
ageable than liquids. Solid fats are
enclosed in membranous bags that.
becoming digested in the stomach,
gradually set fee the contents, which
as gradually, pass into the duodenum,
where, under the influence of the
pancreatic juice and the bile, the fat
is slowly prepared for absorption.
The gastric has no more action on
fats than water has, and the pressure
in the stomach of considerable
quantity of free fat is only an obsta-
Gle to gastric digestion, which,
though limited to but small proper
ton of the food, is still of great i'm
portance-among other reasons be-
cause, if gastric digestion is incom-
plete, besides its liability to disorder
other organs through impressions
transmitted by the nervous system,
the fermentation or putrefaotion OF
the oontents Of the stomach results
in juice that tend to derange the ac-
ton of the whole alimentary canal,
and especially that Of the second
stomach, the duodenum, where di-
gestion is chiefly accomplished. :
QUANTITY or room,
A rple rarely 10 be departed from
by an invalid is in eating to stop
short not merely of repletion, but of
fully satisfying the appetite. There
is no better established law of the sys-
tenn than that disease Of une part at
fleets in greateE or less degree, all
parts, and there are few diseases in
which the digestive organs do not in
cur more or less debility.
BY the proposed limitation of guam
tity not only do those organs acquire
an increase Of yigor, ana the tissue a
greater facility of appropriatmg, but
in the long run, through this in
crease yigOr more food may be eaten
and through this greater facility more
flesh acquired, than is possible by
fully gratifying the appetite.
Now often have known an inva-
lid, when convalescing, to fully graf
ily the returning appetite, and in two
or three weeks complain that the APP
petite had failed.
The explanation is that lie appe-
lite can be restored faster than the
vigor Of the digestive organs. Of all
plumbers that physicians have made
in dieting invalids none has been so
great as the forcing process that has
been in vogue for some years.
BY it flesh may temporarily in
crease while disease is steadily adj
vancing. But where once the system
succumbs to the forcing process the
disease advances more rapidly than
ever, and it is frequently impossi ble
to restore the lost flesh.
DRINK.
1t is well to drink all the pure wa
ter that can be taken without OPP
pressing the stomach. Water emf
nently promotes those processes Of
change which are the very essence of
life