Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
Melancholy and
Mental Depression

Also Known as Low Spirits and "The
Blues" are Almost Invariably
Caused by indigestion and Stomach
Derangement.
Chronic melancholy is a symptom
frequently encountered in the victims
of dyspepsia and Indigestion. Defec-
tive blood nutrition or anaemia ap-
pears to be the physical state with
which the great majority Of cases of
melancholy and mental depression are
connected and to which all modes OF
treatment are directed. Powerful and
permanent and depressing moral and
mental emotions act as effectively in
arresting healthy digestion and ali
mentation as the eating of injudicious
food, or the use of nourishment
under circumstances such as the re-
spiration of impure air, or indulgence
in Incorporate tendencies, which rem
der proper assimilation of food impos-
sible.
But while depressing mental emo
lions may cause disturbed digestion,
on the other hand, dyspepsia may, in
turn cause mental depression, so that
cause and effect may be transposed.
Melancholy or "the blues" should not
be regarded as the distinct and indie
pendent affection, as it is almost in
variable traceable to, and dependent
upon, some disorder of the digestive
system.
The victims of this distressing con-
dition present not only the usual
symptoms of indigestion or nervous
dyspepsia, but also a long train of
symptoms of peculiarly melancholic
and morbid character, such as ex.
IRENE increase of nerve-sensibility
palpitations, strange internal sensa.
tions which simulate many other
diseases, together with an exaggerat
ed uneasiness and anxiety chiefly con
cerning the health. They imagine
they have all the diseases known to
Pathology, and are great pessimists
prone to look on the dark side of life
They are easily annoyed by small
things, which if their health and diges
ton were good, would never bother
them; and they feel constantly if
ritable, have dark forebodings, and
fear the approach of some imaginary
evil, impending disaster or calamity.
If they experience indigestion-pains
in the heart region, they think it is
| heart disease; uneasiness in the chest
means consumption, while the various
other fugitive aches and pains distrib
uted over the system they imagine tt
be symptoms of some fatal, organic
disease.
Every one of these morbid symptom:
depend upon a disturbed state of the
digestion. and for the removal ant
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