Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-17
IS DYSPEPSIA A MYTH
a DISEASE NOBODY SEEMS AsLE TO
DEFINE OR LOCATE.

Goodness or Twenty Other Thinrs--Hsrd
walkers and Rough Eaters DO Sot Have
r-Doa't Ilamc It on the Stomach.
Some time ago we read something in one
Of our exchanges in which the writer held
tbatit was all wrong that we should even
FOR moment entertain the idea that there
existed such thing as progressive phys
ieal racial deterioration, and this optimis-
tic writer would make US believe that the
generally accepted idea that We are fast be
coming a nation Of dyspeptics had no foun-
dalton 10 fact. but that. on the contrary.
evidence would show that dyspepsia was
much more prevalent % years ago than
now.
We hate to undeceive any cheerful human
being but we cannot but feel that the OPP
timistic writer IS laboring under fond de
fusion. which il is our unpleasant task TO
dispeL What is this disRgreeable and Ill
behaved condition that renders the lord OF
creation 50 miserable. robs him Of all spirit
and makes him feel like the wicked and re-
pentant Nebuchadnezzar as he erawled on
all four,
The discovery OF the art Of cookery may
have given alnrgcr list Of food whence man
iAAENh NAAfAN UP AAA0 hAAA " AaAANH fAfi'A A-aAf
imagine that the art has greatly contrihut-
ed toward health and the frightening OF
human life. There are many good reasons
to make us doubt these conclusions. Prim-
1 tive man living on grapes. berries nuts
and grasshoppers. with milk aud honey for
relishes and wild onions for appetizers
! must have been the very soul Of optimism
! and health, Those evil gcuii, the distiller,
I brewer and cook. had not begun their inter
I minable duel with the apUthecary and the
/ Doctor, with poor, miserable man and his
stomach FOR battlefield, and primitive
( man was consequently not dyspeptic, equity
I nor uremic Has the stomach Of man
! changed since those happy days, and what
/ has thes stomach really to do with dyspepsia
1t has been asserted. and not without
reason. that the Caucasian has more en-
l durnce than any other race, and that in
comparison with contemporary animals he
excels in capacity for work and endurance
| There is no doubt but that his stomach has
endurance and capabilities that nearly
equal those Of the ostrich, rhinoeeros or
camel.
The Scotch highlander swallows his un
derloue oatmeal p0rridge, feeling that its
r,wuess will retard its digestion, and not
compel him to rcplenish his furnace for
many hours. On the same principle the
Irlshman swallows his national mess Of po-
tatoes boiled with a stone in the center
that is, only the outer layer OF the potato
being boiled at all-alsO AN eXpedieut
learned By experience that a half raw pota-
10 will last MS long as three well cooked
ones. The French peasant makes his meals
Of a bread made Of a mixture OF peas, rye,
beans or wheat flour ground up, husks and
all, into one mass This, with the addition
ofa little cheese Of questionable age and
some acrid wine, may serve for breakfast,
dinner or sumner. Now, what is Of particu-
lnr interest ms is the fact that none of
the examples given are troubled with dys-
pepsia. 1t is well known thnt Ireland and
Scotland present the greatest number Of
mast ccrtenarinns willis for an all round
LONG liver there is no nation on earth that
[ excpIs the French.
The German can take down his regular
Government length or allowance OF pep
meal. s,usnr, sauerkrnut. sour milk and
home bre,ycd lager beer. handle the ilnil al
duy and dance in his hobnailed shoes al
ni1ht. filling in the interval with lunche.
of ANYTHING TINT comes handy.
Tho African stomach seems more to as
simulate to that of the ostrich or the rhl
noeerns The amount required to gatisf,
the ordinary annette of the son of Ham 4
something Incredible. The more he eat
the SIMMER his skin glows. We never knew
one to leouire my pepsin even after din
, pcr of "A 3-pound ilsi. pound OF roast
! half II dozen eggs, olives, pickles. potatoes
J beets. turnips and other things, with som,
. dessert and coffee.
D Evidently dyspepsin cannot be said Il
dcpynd on overriding the stomach will
y odd. and ends as If IL were a secondhan,
junkshop or some back ward swilltub.
, By disci,rlin, the idea of stomach com
I, intention in any connection when treatipl
+ dyspepsia we viii be more likely TO rrnei
. the tue origin. cause or sent of the disease
Il SOME c,.4es have Welded mn To exercise sys
: trmatically employed. while Others recoye
; under Il few DAYS of absolute rest TN
!. numbers of so called dyspepsin tint mr.
y cured by the dlsappearnnce of business dc
nestle or social anuoyauce are nearly IN
u limited An overdue note in the possessio
OF a bottle nosed and beetle eyed creditor
y more productive Of dyspepsia than n men
a OF secondhand Garnet tacks In fnet.
A mny he n safe thing Ia assume Tint i'm DIV,
Ii nepsia we had better lool, In the gurret
e closet or cellar Of the dysnentio's house !
a among his business or social relation,
h rather than "a his stomach for the solutio
l. OF the di,licnlty
" WIN Aniericans dvsnensia has sever,