The Indigestion is sometimes less the Effect of the Quantity, than of the Quality, or the Corruption of the Food, contained in the Stomach.
But Susan, being young and as yet untroubled by the indigestion that openly or secretly preyed upon everyone else, did at last grow somewhat used to noise, did contrive to get five or six hours of broken sleep.
In mere indigestion the food taken is apt to come up, and the same may happen in flatulent colic.
A bounding pulse often accompanies mere palpitation of the heart, whose source may be the sympathetic influence of indigestion or nervousness.
The practice of students and accountants going immediately from severe mental labor to their meals, is a pernicious one, and a fruitful cause of indigestion and mental debility.
The disease it induces, is indigestion or dyspepsia.
How are the worst forms of indigestion and nervous depression produced?
What is one cause of indigestion among students and accountants?
How should indigestion arising from nervous prostration be treated?
Many of the cases of indigestion among clergymen, seamstresses, school teachers, sedentary mechanics, and factory operatives, are produced by breathing the impure air of the rooms they occupy.
Indigestion arising from a prostration of the nervous system, should be treated with great care.
If the contractility of their muscular fibres is destroyed or impaired, the tone of the digestive apparatus will be diminished, as in indigestion and costiveness.
The worst forms of indigestion and nervous depression are those which arise from excessive mental application, or depressed feeling, conjoined with unrestrained indulgence in the pleasures of the table.
What is one cause of indigestion among the sedentary class in community?
Out of all these scores of people, many of whom are supposed to have weak stomachs, I have never had one case of indigestion from such a combination.
But the person with nervous indigestion rolls out the "gas" with such force that the noise can sometimes be heard all over the house.
There came to me one day a well-known public woman who had suffered from nervous indigestionfor many years.
No indigestion or pains at the neck or burning at the pit of the stomach?
At first she thought the sensation was a touch of indigestion which frequently brings with it, its near relative, depression.
Following this same line of thought, is not disappointment or grief, in a way, the indigestion of a caprice?
Sooner or later, then, gastritis and stomach indigestion develop, with consequent intestinal indigestion.
Intestinal indigestion should be corrected, and free daily movements of the bowels should be caused.
If they have much indigestion at night which keeps them awake so that they do not get good comfortable rest, their largest meals should be the morning and noon meals, and the evening meal should be very light.
By all the laws of American dieting and Prohibition the German race should have been destroyed by indigestion and drunkenness centuries ago.
Weak backs, nervous prostration, indigestion and similar indispositions were not topics at the Buchers'.
It, like the others, is used for indigestion and liver complaints, but especially for laryngeal affections.
This accounts for the gas coming from the stomach and bowels of persons troubled with indigestion and constipation, who frequently complain of a rotten-egg taste in the mouth.
Footnote 22: "Indigestion as a Cause of Nervous Depression.
Indigestion is the enemy to be overcome; and he must be "killed dead.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Careful observers have remarked that fruit is a prophylactic, and is also curative, taken on an empty stomach, but is likely to promoteindigestion if added to a hearty meal of mixed food.
When he got to his hotel he had nervous indigestionand a violent headache.
Once he had been taken with an acute indigestion pain and a doctor was called in.
The inspector, if he happens to haveindigestion or domestic trouble, can be appallingly disagreeable.
Strange to say, many people who often suffer from indigestion after their simple fare at home can go through an hotel menu without any bad after-effects.
Otherwise the man is apt to get a headache before he gets his meal, and indigestion after he has taken it.
The writer once recommended this plan to a lady who complained of indigestion after eating rice, and told her that if she insisted on its being carried out she would have no further difficulty in the matter.
Coffee does not as a rule tend to cause indigestion or affect the nerves; its ill-effects are due to the fact of its causing biliousness.
People are often surprised when they get indigestion after partaking of bread and milk; that is, bread soaked in hot milk.
When taken in this form it certainly causes indigestion as well as biliousness.
There are some people, and not a few, who cannot take milk without suffering from indigestion or biliousness.
Up to that time she had never known what indigestion was, yet for the next couple of days she suffered from it in a most acute form.
Indigestion results, and this means that the eatables lose their power of nourishment, and, what is even worse, become tainted with poison.
In older children an attack of indigestion should be the signal for putting them upon a simpler and more restricted diet for a time.
Indigestion during the first year of life shows itself by languor, pallor, and evident discomfort.
We repeat, that most cases ofindigestion in infants and children yield promptly to an immediate change in the diet, without medicine.
If the symptoms of indigestion do not yield, milk containing an excess of cream should be used.
In infants at the breast indigestion is usually caused by giving the breast too often or by an excess or change in the quality of the milk.
Whenever indigestion is present the diet should be plain and simple, and everything avoided which produces heartburn, sourness, or flatulency.
Such, therefore, as are found, in each individual case, to produce indigestion and an acid stomach in the mother, should be carefully avoided by her.
The treatment of indigestionin childhood is usually easy and satisfactory.
But boiled green vegetables and husk fruits are very apt to cause indigestion and diarrhœa.
But indigestion may proceed from loss of nerve power, or from a badly acting liver or spleen, or from weakness of the heart, etc.
We see that mists are mists and indigestion indigestion, and that there aren't such things as ghosts and demons.
So that when we find ourselves misbehaving to one another as we march along the Open Road, we may know it's only indigestion and take a pill.
For so many generations humanity has seen ghosts in the evening mists and taken its indigestion for the promptings of a demon.
To any one who have, or may have in the future, indigestion cases, let me advise the following treatment, viz.
Every acute disease is fulminant, even indigestion is fulminant, but the force of the warring elements is soon expended and unless reinforced by fresh elements the fulmination must end.
They drink it at every meal, and suffer from indigestion before they come to middle age.
They try to get the blackest fluid out of the tea, and in doing so draw out the tannin, which, though it has its virtues, acts upon the coats of the stomach and produces indigestion by middle life.
In India it is used by inunction in rheumatism and in the Philippines locally over the stomach in indigestion and colic.
They use it in doses of 30-60 grams as a purgative, externally as an application to the abdomen in colic or indigestion and with friction in rheumatism or contusions.
Flesh requires considerable acid for dissolution; sometimes more than is normally supplied by the stomach, and consequently results in indigestion or non-dissolution.
By observance of these rules, together with a reasonable observance of the laws of exercise, fresh air and deep breathing, the most obstinate cases of indigestion or subacidity can be overcome.
Sidenote: Diet in cases of subacidity] In cases of chronic indigestion or impoverished acid secretions, it often becomes necessary to prescribe a counteractive diet, the composition of which should be determined by the cause of the disorder.
