The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-27
READY FOR H BORE
CONVERSATION OF A MAN WHO WAS
PRlMED FOR A DyspEPT,c,
A Chronic Invalid. Bent on Relating His
Own Case, Hear IS of a More Remarkable
One and Is Able to Get In but . Few
Words In the Course Of . Long Talk.

Words In the Course Of = Long Talk.
'You are SO burly and robust" sail
the orgulo1s dyspeptic. with score,
scorn. to his casual travelling acquaint
ance. that l presume you are neve,
troubled with dyspepsia. You have
much to be thankful for am often in
such a state .hat"-
Was the Iurly acquaintance to endure
the garrulity of a chance d~yspeptic? He
was not.
'On the contrary" he immediately re.
piled. for. never having suffered a mo-
ment III his life from any physical all
ment. his mind was active and vigiiant.
o he contrary, | have suffered un
told torture from dyspepsia. and as you
are interested in the subject | will will.
lngly give you my experience. | began
with the finest digestion IN the world,
but while engaged in the military service
Of the country, being j. wears scouting
on the frontier. the character of the ia.
lions. together with the quality of the
CONNECTIONS of soldier cooks previously
engaged in driving HI chs and slu.ging
castings"-
'Oh. my tfoublc was not with cooks
interposed the dy peptic loftily, but
nevertheless iulch clagrlned to find the
ourly acquaintance prepared to talk on
on the subject As / was about to tell
you, am often III >ucn Il state that
And the irreyularity Of the meals
hurried IN the burly acquaintance,
served. you understand, in camp. al
fresco and a la fourchette sans c~crrlnonie,
threw me into such disorder that | had
indigestion. then dyspepsia. then non
assimilation. | submitted my case to the
army surgeons. They advised me-
Doctors are of little use. | will tell
you
To confne myself to the simplest and
mos, digestible edibles and esculents to
De found in the military commissary
But | grew worse. and the surgeons or
dered me back to civilization. where ]
could obtain the delicate nutriment
which my disordered and seriously i'm.
paired system required. | went to Chi
cago and began a diet of chicken broth,
fresh fruit. stale bread made from newly
ground graham, steamed oatmeal'-
oh, | tried all those. Five year,
ago.
THE result was that | grew worse. az
before. and the local doctors advised me
to go toto go to New York. where |
should be able to find foods better suited
to my parlous state. Accordingly went
to New York and laid out Il diet of the
finest and purest of the selected food.
that that metropolis Affords
plain country food taken as the sys
tenn requires
MY physician advised exact regular
lty. ! had two ounces sea food, w
ounces farinaceous food. two nee of
the juice of fresh imported fruits and
ounces ~coagulated albuminoids ev-
cry two hours. Growing steadily worse. |
consulted higher medical talent. One
doctor kept me on clam broth. another
on tangerines, another on shredded
broiled frogs legs. another on distilled
alfalfa"-
Five years ago.
"Growing steadily worse. | consulted
IT'LL higher authority. | was now told
that my diet was at variance with ma
lure. The doctor told me that nature
proportion, rhythm. music-foods
be taken in harmonious proper
He p"ascribed the same sea foods.
,~ereals. meats and fruits as the others.
put in a chromatic scale Of the decreas-
ng seventh. throwing in occasionally a
vegetables by way of variation Of
he fugue and double extracts as over
ones
'Of course you recovered, your case
icing merely temporary
"Growing steadily worse. | consulted
doctor who had had great success
lmong the millionaires-financial sue
'ess. He was a man of blunt speech
md plain common sense. He said | had
'verworked my stomach and must give
/ entire rest. What | was to do for a
wing in the meantime he did not say.
nut he took ii large fee with great scorn.
lightly despising me for the small
mount of money that he left me. My
was now worse than ever. 1t
efused to be cajoled and despised my
tfers of peace. Excuse me a moment
| had spent over As hours fasting.
then drank two drains of soda mint
With four ounce Of aqua pura-every-
hing was now drains, scruples and
unces with me. and the zigzag symbolso of
hose distressing quantities appeared in
ny nightly Nightmares like a procession
{ Daniel Quilps and Humpbacks of No.
10 Dsme-as | say ' drains of sterilized
nilk at 20 degrees centigrade, with iv
Of bismuth and ii jiggle jaggles
{ soda, with a couple of glasses of wine
Nd n0vrSv 70 GA - tho nr,c<~,,-r -1-
res Of digestion.
1.-THE large amount of actual food con
mined In the ounce of milk began to dis
me exceedingly, but the wine, to
vhich ] was not accustomed, gave me
ourage. | took several more doses Of it
Immediately. increasing the doses rhyth-
! had not felt so well il months,
said Wine is undoubtedly a mocker,
mt it is a good rubifacient, besides pos
essing valuable ~uualities as an antinar-