The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-24
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THE DEMON DYSPEPSIA.
DR.. Madana F. DeHart Tells
How to Overcome Its In
sidiou5 Advances.

Mrs. Madana F. DeHart, M. D., delivered
the third of her lectures to women in the
Tabernacle lecture room yesterday after
noon on the subject of digestion" There
was a large and always attentive audience.
DIR. DeHart began by saying:-"The sub
iect today is Dyspepsia from a Greek
word which means Il digest with difficulty.
We will first review the digestive process,
and afterward consider some of those devia-
ions from the normal, which are, unfortu-
nately, so familiar to us all. The early
symptoms are those which lave direct con
nection with this process and these organs,
| and the later manifestation are those dis
turbances which show that remote organs
nave been drawn into the difficulty, and are
trying as best they can to assist their fellow
workers, and, by increased activity, do all
in their power to remove Instructions and
repair damages.
ave have seen that normal digestion is
| unconscious, therefore unusual and I'M
natural sensations are signals OF distress, to
let us know that something is wrong, and our
| highest wisdom consists in carefully
considering this natural language,
in order that we may at once correct ouI
mistake and return to better practices. 1t is
well worth our while to study the meaning
of such signs as loss of appetite; nausea, pal
Ditation of the heart and wakefulness, for
they are the advance guard which precedes
not only an army of ills, which involve not
only the body, but the mind, and sometimes
seem to destroy both the reason and moral
sense.
THE NECESSITY OF RIGHT LIVING.
eve might as well realize, once for all, that
| there is nothing in medicine which can take
the place of right living. or abrogate natural
laws. Obedience is the price of peace, and
ignorance of these laws does not ave us
from the penalty. Many, anxious to get
quiet relief from their ~annoyances, resort to
anodynes and stimulants, which nave the
power to mask the trouble for a while, and
they thus succeed in putting off the day OF
reckoning, but the score stan against them
in natures book of account, and she is never
cheated, but sooner or later, convinces us
that we must reap what we SOW, no matter
how unpleasant the harvest"
Continuing, DIR. De Hart said, that among
the early symptoms of dyspepsia, are loss OF
appetite, nausea, vomiting, 1atulence, acid
| ity, ~faintness, pain in the stomach, or con-
stipation; those which nave direct onnec
ton with the process and the organs of di-
gestion. Among the late symptoms are pal
pitation of the heart, disturbed breathing,
sometimes asthma or neuralgia, even in dis
tant parts, wakeTulne3s, spasins, headache,
dizziness, dizziness of intellect, disturbances
of sight or hearing, mental depression or ex-
| ceSsive nervousness, melancholla and 1nsan-
ity, emaciation, govt, s%crofula, tuberculosis,
rheumatism and ricketts,, all OF Which long
train of evils make, take their beginning
from disorders of the digestive process. The
causes of dyspepsia include unhealthy or
gans, eating improper food, or eating with
the mind disturbed, exercising too quickly
| after eating, tight lacing and such kinds of
work as cause pressure, drinking iced water,
eating ice cream, or eating irregularly. If
regularity in the feeding of infants, may
lay the foundations of dyspepsia. Too little
exercise may induce dyspepsia, as may exces-
sive mental strain, the use OF tobacco or
| s~timulants. In speaking of the feeding of
infants, DR.. DeHart said that farinaceous
food might be given at six months and meat
at eighteen months.
PEPsIN AMI MALT.
OF the various meats, roast pork takes
about 5 hours to digest, veal 4 hours, NUT
ton 3. Is, turkey $50 and tripe /. Milk takes
9 hours. The peculiarities of the individual
must be regarded-''what is. one mans meat
is sometimes) another mans poison" Lac
topepsin claims to represent in composition
the natural digestive juices of the stomach,
pancreas and sahyary glands, and will there
fore dissolve all foods necessary to the re-
cuperation of the human body. Pepsin is
the active principle found in the gastric
juice, and is given to assist weak stomachs
to digest. Malt claims to contain a large
amount of d~iastase, which has the power to
convert starch Into sugar, n thus assist
nature when she is enfeebled. Cod liver oil
is an easily digested food
DR.. De Hart continued, "Perhaps some
may say, What is the advantage of know
ing these things!' 1t is that we may use
them, that we may by their help draw wise
conclusions and rise from them to the idea,
the principle; the law upon which they de-
pend. 1t is to be hoped that women will
find out why they are invalids; why so
many of their children are SO badly born
that they either die during their first year
or linger on SO feeble and sickly that even
their own mothers come to look on death as
a blessing; why many who seem to have
sound physical health have such hayward
moral natures that they are a constant
source of anxiety and sorrow to those who
feel themselves responsible for their exist
ence. With advancing scientific knowledge
and increased ethical culture, let us hope that
this problem, which has been the despair eli
economists N philanthropists in the past,
will yield to the combined forces of educated
men and women working together for the
welfare of the race.
At the conclusion Of the lecture, which was
one of the most practical and interesting of
the course, an opportunity of asking ques-
tiOnS was afforded.