The Monitor., 1888-12-07
ADVICE TO DYSPEPTECs.
What TO Eat and How to Five 10 Have
Good Health

Hsat TO Eat ana How fe Five 10 Have
Good Health.
One thing which all dyspeptics should
bear in mind is this: Without strong.
healthy, wholesome blood in their veins
they cannot be either well or happy, and it
is from the food We eat that blood is made.
About the most that medicine can do for
you is to regulate the bowels and secretions,
increase the appetite, and supply any con-
stituent that may be absent from the blood
such as iron, etc.
l have but mentioned few of the symp-
toms of Indigestion of chronic character.
Unhappily, many of my readers arc but
too well acquainted with others, so | need
not name them. The causes of this indiges-
ton are important to know. and these
must but skim lightly over. Oyereating is
the most fruitful source of the dreadful
mischief. Young growing people need
substantial diet to build up their frames:
hard outdoor workers require good and
abundant food; middle-aged people who do
not work should eat most sparingly. and Of
diet not too much Mixed the old need
still less to sustain the system. Over-eat-
ing in some makes fat. This weakens and
wearies the muscles, and really attenuates
them; and, worse than all. it interferes
with the action of the heart and oftens in
duees sudden fatal ISSUE In others over
eating produces constant nervous fever.
and though no fat is formed, the person
loses actual flesh, and that which he has is
flabby and poor. The abuse of stimulants
is another cause of the complaint; and re-
member when | say s'stimuant, include
rich sauces and peppers, tea, coffee and
cocoa. Tobacco counts its victims on its
finger ends, and it is fiend with thou
sand fingers.
Drinking fluid with instead of after
meals is injurious. An injudicious mix
ture of diet, indigestibe food badly-timed
meals, want of exercise, want of proper
ablution and the bath, sleeping in badly
ventilated rooms, hard worry, anxiety.
want Of sleep: all these are liable to induce
the ailment; and once begun, it has a ter
ribly disagreeable tendency to go on to the
bitter end It is for all the world like
ball or piece ofrock started down hill. The
farther it goes the worse it gets. and the
greater difficulty there is in stopping, and
if il is not stopped it is dashed to pieces at
the foot.
Now for my remedies. To begin with,
do not wish you to look upon yourself as an
invalid. Because if you do, you will become
nervous, and things will become worse.
There are no bounds to the Imagination of
a nervous invalid. A patient of mine came
to me the other day with a pimple on the
side of his nose. Tell me the truth now,
DOCTOR he said, shat may be prepared
This"-he referred to the pimple-.is the
beginning of the end. is it not?''
Do not look upon yourself as an invalid,
but resolve to live by rule, all the same If
you are a society man, better keep out of it
for few months. Go and travel, or tramp,
or camp, or anything to keep you away
from the demoralizing vice of overeating
am not using too strong language, for
over-eating is quite as dangerous as over
drinking; but woe is me, or woe is he, if
the two should go together.
Well, you have let us hope, regulated
and reduced your diet, then as accessories
you have pleasant exercise, fresh air, the
matutinal tub, rising betimes, ventilation
of your bedroom, and good sleep procured
naturally.
If you feel really very dyspeptic, weak,
and poorly, 60 to a hyropathic establish
ment, where you will have your diet
regulated for you, and come back new
man, But not to begin old ways: you
may re-enter society, but live abstemiously
at table, and if you do so You viii fec so
full of life and spirit that you will thiuk
she tide of time is being rolled back, and
You are getting young again.
If you do not go into society, but live at
home, yon will be able more easily to reg
ulatc your diet, both as to quantity. change
and time. Do not fast very long. Do not
go to bed hungry. Do not eat after exerr
tion; l mean when tired. Do not eat i'm
medately before exertion; as, for instance,
before going out for a spin on your cycle.
Take no food at all if not hungry, and be
regular with your meal hours. Never eat
tough meat. Take tea, coffee and cocoa in
moderation, and never any meat with it;
an egg at most. Take bread and butter or
toast with these beverages. Do not drink
fluid till you have eaten. Never touch al
cohol in any form.