{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2428", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No.\\nShelfJRUL 3 S\\n.-3*4 o-\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "INDIGESTION\\nITS CAUSES AND CURE.\\nBY\\nJOHN H. CLARKE, M. D.,\\nFELLOW OF THE BRITISH HOMCEOPATHIC SOCIETY EXTRA-\\nORDINARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY\\nOF EDINBURGH CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO\\nTHE LONDON HOMCEOPATHIC HOSPITAL\\nAUTHOR OF THE PRESCRIBER,\\nETC.\\nAMERICAN EDITION.\\nRevised and Enlarged by the Author,\\nFrom the Fifth English Edition.\\nPHILADELPHIA\\nBOERICKE TAFEL.\\n1900.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "O COPIES BfcX^Ei\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u00a22 71900 ttQp\\n6140\\nCOPYRIGHTED\\nBY\\nBOERICKE TAFEL,.\\n1900.\\nT. B. H. B. COCHRAN,\\nPRINTERS,\\nLANCASTER, PA.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nPreface to American Edition, 5\\nPreface to the First Edition, 7\\nChapter I. Digestion, Primary and\\nJ^ Secondary, 11\\nChapter II. Causes of Indigestion, 21\\nChapter III. Food and Drink, 29\\nChapter IV. Indigestion after its\\nKinds:\\n1. From indigestible food; 2. From ex-\\ncessive indulgence in good food; 3.\\nFrom alcohol; 4. From tobacco; 5.\\nFrom tea; 6. From cold; 7. From\\nbad air; 8. From vinegar; 9. From\\ntight-lacing; 10. From nervous de-\\nbility; 11. From bloodlessness; 12.\\nMedicinal; 13. Constitutional; 14.\\nGouty. 42\\nChapter V. Treatment of Indiges-\\ntion with Illustrative Cases:\\nI. Improper food: Case I., Convulsions\\nfrom eating indigestible food, cured\\nby Nux vomica. 2. Irregularities of\\ndiet: Case II., Extreme dyspepsia\\nwith mental symptoms, from irreg-\\nularities of diet, etc., Sulphur,\\nLycopodium, Nux vomica. 3. Al-\\ncohol: Case III., Chronic alcohol-\\nism; cirrhosis of the liver; dropsy;\\nindigestion great amelioration\\nfrom China. 4. Tobacco: Case IV.,\\nAggravated dyspepsia caused by\\ntobacco poisoning, cured mainly\\nby Nux vomica; Case V., Indiges-\\ntion, with indurated liver; Case VI.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Contents.\\nTobacco and whisky dyspepsia,\\ncured by Ly cop odium. 5. Tea:\\nCase VII., Tea dyspepsia, cured by\\nMerc, sol., Actcza rac, etc.; Case\\nVIII., Tea dyspepsia. 6. Arsenic:\\nCase IX., Arsenic dyspepsia, cured\\nby Bryonia. 7. Cold: Case X,,\\nDyspepsia from cold, cured by\\nCard, veg.; Case XI., Dyspepsia\\nfrom cold, Plumbum. 8. Bad air:\\nCase XII., Dyspepsia from bad air,\\nNux., Sulph. 9. Vinegar dys-\\npepsia. 10. Tight-lacing dyspepsia.\\n11. Dyspepsia from nervous debil-\\nity: Case XIII., Dyspepsia from\\nnervous shock, Iodine; Case XIV.\\nDyspepsia resulting from nervous\\ndebility, Natrum mur etc. 12.\\nIndigestion and chlorosis: Case\\nXV., Indigestion of chlorosis cured\\nby Petroleum; Case XVI., Dys-\\npepsia of anaemia simulating ulcer-\\nation of the stomach, cured by\\nArgent, nit. 13 Drug dyspepsia.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a214. Miscellaneous Case XVII.,\\nLondon dyspepsia, Abies nigra;\\nCase XVIII., Dyspepsia of six\\nyears standing, cured by Abies\\nnigra. 15. Constitutional indiges-\\ntion: Case XIX., A chronic con-\\nstitutional case with dilated stom-\\nach; recurrent fistula; cure: Case\\nXX., A chronic case arising from\\nan improperly treated skin affec-\\ntion, Sulphur, Nux moschata, 64\\nChapter VI. Diet in Dyspepsia, 118\\nChapter VII. Materia Medica, 129\\nIndex, 143", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE TO THE FIFTH ENG-\\nLISH EDITION.\\nThk continued popularity of this treat-\\nise, as evidenced by the exhaustion of\\nanother edition, is a gratifying circum-\\nstance in itself, and at the same time it\\nenables me to keep it thoroughly up to\\ndate. In the present revised edition will\\nbe found much additional matter, includ-\\ning several new cases, which I hope will\\nstill further increase the usefulness of\\nthe work.\\nJOHN H. CLARKE.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "PREFACE TO AMERICAN\\nEDITION.\\nIn presenting this little work to Amer-\\nican Homoeopathic readers, I can only\\nexpress a hope that it may find as gratify-\\ning a reception on the western side of\\nthe Atlantic as it has done on this. Five\\neditions have already been called for,\\nand as the last w T as issued little more\\nthan a year ago I have not found it\\nnecessary to make any extensive altera-\\ntions. At the same time I have gone\\ncarefully over the work and have been\\nable to incorporate a considerable amount\\nof new matter.\\nJOHN H. CLARKE.\\n30 Charges Street, Piccadilly,\\nLondon, W.\\nJune, 1899.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "FROM THE PREFACE TO THE\\nFIRST EDITION.\\nConsidering the enormous influence\\nthe human stomach has exercised on the\\nhistory of the world and of individuals,\\nit is astonishing that people are so little\\ncareful how they treat it, and what they\\nput into it. But for the stomach, as every\\none knows, there would be little of the\\nworld s work done. If any man will\\nnot work, neither shall he eat, is the\\napostle s rendering of the primal curse,\\nIn the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat\\nbread. And certain it is that but for the\\nstomach and its demands there would be\\na very great scarcity of workers. Nor\\ndoes the doing of the work alone depend\\non the stomach s wants;, the quality of it\\nalso depends very much on the stomach s\\ncondition. When a man cannot eat a", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 Preface.\\nmouthful of food without suffering acute\\nmisery, it is impossible for him to work\\nwith the pleasure that the best work de-\\nmands, or to take a just and charitable\\nview of his fellow-creatures; and when\\nthe man happens to be one of the rulers\\nor leaders of men, the consequences may\\nbe far-reaching.\\nIt becomes, therefore, a matter of the\\nfirst importance in life to give the stom-\\nach fair play. In the following pages,\\nafter describing the normal process of\\ndigestion, I go on to sketch the various\\ndeviations from the normal to which the\\nprocess is liable, and to show how they\\nmay be avoided, and how cured.\\nI have illustrated the treatment of the\\nvarious kinds of indigestion by narrating\\nthe treatment of actual cases. It will be\\nseen that the treatment is of several\\nkinds.\\nIn some cases of acute indigestion, the\\nbest remedy is to abstain from food for", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Preface. 9\\ntwenty-four hours, and take no medicine\\nat all. In most cases the regulation of\\nthe diet, and the time at which it should\\nbe taken, is a matter of the first import-\\nance. But there are many cases in which\\nthis is not enough; and in almost all cases\\nit may be usefully supplemented. It\\noften happens that the conditions of life\\nare such that the active causes of indi-\\ngestion are operating all the time, and\\nno change in regimen is possible. What\\nis to be done in these cases A melan-\\ncholy-wise shake of the head on the part\\nof the physician does not provide much\\nhelp, and though this is often all the\\nsufferer receives, it is because the physi-\\ncian does not know his business.\\nThere is much to be done; but he who\\nknows not Hahnemann and Homoeop-\\nathy will fail to do it.\\nIt is just here that Homoeopathy shines\\nwith such conspicuous lustre beside Old\\nPhysic. By means of its powerful and\\n2", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "io Preface.\\nyet innocuous medicines it can work out\\ncures when Allopathy must stand help-\\nlessly by, or make matters worse by giv-\\ning drugs that are almost certain to do\\nharm.\\nAfter narrating my cases, I shall devote\\na chapter to the diet treatment of indiges-\\ntion, and then, in a final chapter, I shall\\ngive a list of the medicines which are\\nmost useful in the disease, with the par-\\nticular indications for^their use.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nDIGESTION.\\nT^HE process of digestion com-\\nmences immediately that food\\nis taken into the mouth. Before\\nfood can be converted into blood,\\nit is necessary that it be reduced to\\na liquid or semi-liquid state. All\\nsolid foods, therefore, must be\\nbroken down in the first instance to\\nfine particles, and for this purpose\\nthe teeth are provided. Solids may\\nbe swallowed unmasticated, it is\\ntrue, and the strong digestive juices\\nare capable of digesting them, but\\nthis power is made much more", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 Digestion.\\ncertain and easy if the food lias\\nbeen first finely ground by the\\nteeth. But the teeth have another\\nfunction. In the cheeks and under\\nthe tongue are the salivary glands,\\nthe ducts of which convey the saliva\\ninto the mouth, and one function\\nof the teeth is to mix the food\\nthoroughly with saliva at the same\\ntime that they grind it small.\\nThe leading action of the saliva is\\non the starchy elements of the food,\\nwhich are converted by it from\\ninsoluble starch into soluble grape-\\nsugar. In this way solid food is\\nprepared for its passage into the\\nstomach, which is the organ of\\ndigestion par excellence.\\nThe stomach may be defined as\\nan organ for the reception, at", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Digestion. 13\\nproper intervals, of food and water.\\nI say water, rather than drink,\\nbecause whatever drink is taken, it\\nis the water which is the essential\\nthirst-quenching part of it. The\\nstomach, when it has received the\\nfood, does not complete the\\ndigestion of it, as many people\\nimagine, but it does by far the\\nlargest share of the work in\\nliquefying the food and reducing it\\nto a condition in which it can be\\nabsorbed. It is lined with a mucous\\nmembrane richly supplied with\\nglands of a special kind, which\\nsecrete a very powerful acid fluid.\\nThis fluid acts chemically on the\\nfood taken, breaking it up and\\nreducing it to a pulp. It also\\ncontains the substance u pepsin,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 Digestion.\\nwhich acts in a peculiar way like\\na ferment, converting all the\\nalbuminous foods, such as meats of\\nall kinds, into il peptones which\\ncan be absorbed, in the same way\\nthat saliva converts starch into\\ngrape-sugar. Besides the mucous\\ncoat there is a muscular coat, with\\nfibres running in two directions,\\nfrom end to end, lengthways of the\\norgan, and circularly, all round it.\\nBy these two sets of fibres the food\\nis moved about when the stomach\\nis full, until it has all come in\\ncontact with the mucous membrane\\nand been submitted to the action of\\nthe gastric juice. When thoroughly\\nmixed with this, the whole being\\nreduced to a grey, semi-fluid mass,\\nit is ready to be passed on into the", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Digestion. 15\\nbowels. There it meets with the\\nbile, the pancreatic juice, and the\\nsecretions of the intestinal glands\\nand mucous membrane; and as\\neach different secretion acts on it,\\nsome portion of it is rendered ready\\nto be taken up by the absorbent\\nvessels called lacteals which abound\\nin the intestines. In the lacteals it\\nis a fluid and looks like milk. After\\npassing through the abdominal\\nglands, where it undergoes some\\nfurther preparation, the fluid is at\\nlast collected from all the lacteals\\ninto one large duct (the thoracic\\nduct) and poured into the current\\nof the blood.\\nThis is the primary digestion,\\nand that alone with which I con-\\ncern myself in the present treatise", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "1 6 Digestion.\\nbut there is also a secondary diges-\\ntion, to which I will briefly refer.\\nAll the tissues of the body are in a\\nstate of ebb and flow. Where life is\\nthere is no standing still; every-\\nthing is in a state of motion and\\nchange. The tissues once built up\\nfrom the food no sooner reach their\\nperfection and perform their func-\\ntion than they begin to decay and\\nmake room for more. Some tissues\\nchange more rapidly than others\\nthe soft tissues more rapidly than\\nthe hard, but all change and break\\ndown into their elements. The\\nsecondary digestion consists in the\\nabsorption of these decomposed ele-\\nments by the lymphatic vessels\\nand glands, the elimination of those\\nelements which are entirely waste,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Digestion. 17\\nand the recom position of those that\\nare still utilizable into blood and\\nnew tissues.\\nThis process is one of vast im-\\nportance, and one which, is easily\\nderanged. Some people naturally\\nhave a more active secondary diges-\\ntion than others, and these are\\ngenerally thin. Tissue change\\ngoes on rapidly, and it matters\\nlittle how much they eat, they can\\nnever fatten. In spite of their\\nspareness they have generally great\\nvital heat, and are of an active,\\nnervous, and restless temperament.\\nOthers, on the contrary, eat little,\\nbut grow constantly fat. With them\\nthe process is slow the tissues burn\\naway (for it is essentially a burning\\nprocess) less rapidly, and they are", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 8 Digestion.\\nof a quieter, more easy-going dis-\\nposition lymphatic or phlegmatic.\\nBut when there is not merely slow\\ntissue-change, but, in addition to\\nthis, a defect in the carrying off of\\nthe effete matters from the tissues,\\nthen we have various kinds of dis-\\neases arising as the effete matters\\naccumulate in the system. If it is\\nlactic acid, we have rheumatism\\nif the predominating substance is\\nuric acid, we have gout. These\\nare, in general, diseases of the sec-\\nondary digestion. It is of course\\npossible, and, indeed, most com-\\nmon, to have defects of the two\\ndigestions combined, but they are\\ndistinct things nevertheless.\\nI have said that the secondary\\ndigestion is easily interfered with.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Digestion. 19\\nAll lowering influences put a check\\non it. Too great exposure to cold,\\nfor instance, will stop it, as in the\\nchill which sets up rheumatic fever.\\nAlcohol, tea, coffee, opium, tobacco,\\ncheck it; hence some of the diseases\\nthat spring from over-indulgence in\\nthese as articles of ordinary con-\\nsumption. Of course, it will be easily\\nunderstood that the two digestions\\nact and react on each other and it\\nmust not be forgotten that the\\nabove-mentioned substances power-\\nfully affect the primary digestion,\\nand may disorder that as well as\\nthe secondary.\\nHaving explained this much, I\\nwill return to a consideration of\\nthe stomach, for that is the organ\\nwhich is chiefly concerned with", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 Digestion.\\nwhat is popularly understood by\\nindigestion, and is, in fact, the\\nmost important of the digestive\\norgans. If the stomach is in good\\ncondition the chances are that the\\nrest of the organs of digestion are\\nin good condition also, and if these\\nare not sound, the stomach is pretty\\nsure to feel it, and let its owner\\nknow.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "^VW\\nCHAPTER II.\\nCAUSES OF INDIGESTION.\\nT3EF0RE proceeding further I\\nwish to be clear about terms.\\nMedical terms are often confusing\\nto non-medical readers, who attach\\ndifferences of meaning to different\\nterms when they are simply two\\nnames for the same thing. A\\nfamiliar instance of this is the case\\nof the terms scarlatina and\\nscarlet fever. The first is sup-\\nposed to represent a mild form of\\nthe second. But they are used\\nabsolutely indifferently by medical\\nmen, the most malignant cases", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 Causes of Indigestion,\\nbeing called scarlatina, just as the\\nmildest cases are called scarlet\\nfever, and vice versa. There is the\\nsame distinction made by some\\npeople between indigestion and\\ndyspepsia. It is a distinction\\nwithout a difference both are\\nnames (indigestion, Latin and\\ndyspepsia, Greek) for identically\\nthe same condition, and I use them\\nindifferently. I am sorry if I must\\nrob some poor sufferer of the little\\nconsolation he has been able to\\nobtain from the supposition that\\nhis complaint is not vulgar t4 indi-\\ngestion, but a more refined some-\\nthing named dyspepsia, but it\\nmust be done, for they are merely\\ndifferent names for the same thing.\\nA great deal might be profitably", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Causes of Indigestion. 23\\nwritten on the art of eating. Hur-\\nrying over meals, paradoxical as it\\nmay sound to say so, is tlie most\\nextravagant waste of time. The\\nteeth cannot do their proper share\\nof mastication unless they have\\nsufficient time to do it in the food\\nis passed into the stomach in an\\nunprepared state, and the lack of\\nmental quiet prevents the stomach\\nfrom expending a proper amount of\\nenergy on its duties. A meal-time\\nshould be a time of mental and\\nbodily rest to all but the digestive\\nfaculties. Another point in the\\nart of eating is the avoidance of\\ndrinking much during a meal. The\\npractice of washing down every\\nmouthful with a drink, whether of\\nwater, wine, lemonade, or what not,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 Causes of Indigestion.\\nis exceedingly bad. It dilutes and\\nweakens the action of the digestive\\njuices, and almost certainly leads to\\ndyspepsia. A good drink, if thirsty,\\nshortly before a meal, or a little\\ntime after it, is the best arrange-\\nment; though a draught in the\\npauses between the courses need\\nnot be objected to. But food should\\nnever be washed down.\\nA healthy stomach is able to\\ndigest anything in an ordinary way\\nthat is called food. Its power is\\nnot strictly limited to the digesting\\nof wholesome food, but it has a\\nmargin of over-power, which allows\\nit to undertake luxuries like mince\\npies, roast pork, and confectionery.\\nThe happy possessor of such an\\norgan should enjoy what he eats", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Causes of Indigestion. 25\\nand be thankful, and think little or\\nnothing about his stomach. Only\\nhe must not transgress his margin.\\nFor the strongest stomach may be\\nruined if it is tried beyond its\\npowers, and if its possessor uses it\\nas a receptacle for things that\\nplease his palate, rather than for\\nthose which sustain his body. But\\nif he makes the latter his main\\nobject, and only indulges his palate\\nnow and then, his stomach will\\ntake it all very good-naturedly, and\\nno harm will be done.\\nThe three grand requirements of\\nevery stomach are proper food,\\nproper quantity of food, and proper\\nrest.\\nIt does not matter how whole-\\nsome the food may be if there is\\n3", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 Causes of Indigestion.\\nnot enough of it, or if there is too\\nmuch, the stomach will resent it.\\nOr, if the quantity as well as the\\nquality be right, and if it be given\\nirregularly, at improper intervals,\\nallowing no time for the stomach to\\nrecover itself after its last digestive\\neffort, indigestion will result.\\nA large number of the cases of\\nindigestion we meet with arise\\nfrom violation of these three cardi-\\nnal rules. But not all. The stomach\\nmay be disordered when there is no\\ncomplaint to be made whatever as to\\nthe treatment of the stomach itself.\\nFor instance, in all fevers and\\nacute inflammations the digestion\\nis more or less interfered with,\\nthough the stomach may not be\\noriginally at fault. Whatever dam-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Causes of Indigestion. 27\\nages the vitality of the blood, either\\nin the way of blood-poisoning, or\\nby its becoming watery and thin,\\nimpairs the power of digestion.\\nWorking in ill-ventilated offices\\nwith gas, or at poisonons trades, as\\nin the case of cardboard boxmakers,\\npaper-hangers and stainers, and\\nartificial florists, who inhale ar-\\nsenic, and plumbers who work with\\nlead, any of these conditions may\\nset up indigestion. Improper\\nhabits of body, as neglect of open-\\nair exercise, and excesses of every\\nkind, will bring on a very inveter-\\nate form of indigestion. Inherited\\ndelicacy of any kind, whether con-\\nsumptive, rheumatic, or gouty, will\\nsometimes manifest itself in indi-\\ngestion apart from any want of", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 Causes of Indigestion.\\ncare on the patient s part. Finally,\\nmental canses must not be omitted\\nfrom the list. Laugh and grow\\nfat is a very old adage and a very\\ntrue one. When the mind is ill at\\nease the stomach cannot work as it\\nought, and the face grows haggard\\nand lean and the muscles lax.\\nWorry is one great cause of indi-\\ngestion.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nFOOD AND DRINK.\\nW^H AT is a food This is not\\nquite so easy a question to\\nanswer as some people might sup-\\npose. Any substance which is\\ncapable of being digested and con-\\nverted into the tissues of the body\\nis a food. This is the scientific\\ndefinition but there are many sub-\\nstances which have been eaten, and\\nwhich have actually helped to sus-\\ntain life under emergencies, which\\nwe are not in the habit of looking\\nupon as food in an ordinary way.\\nFor instance, in times of siege,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 Food and Drink.\\n9\\nleather has been actually eaten by\\nstarving people, but we don t con-\\nsider leather a food. Therefore in\\npractical life it is only those sub-\\nstances which contain a consider-\\nable amount of digestible material\\nthat are to be regarded as foods.\\nMoreover, the question, What is\\na food can only be answered by\\neach individual for himself. What\\nis a food to one man is not neces-\\nsarily a food to another. Such an\\ninnocent thing as mutton, for in-\\nstance, would be said by most\\npeople to be good food for every-\\nbody, and yet I know those to\\nwhom the least bit of mutton is\\ndangerous poison. Many people\\ncan eat mackerel and enjoy it with-\\nout feeling any after-effect; in", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Food and Drink. 31\\nothers the smallest portion of it\\nwill set up choleraic symptoms.\\nSome people are so sensitive that\\nfish of any kind will cause violent\\nnettlerash. I have known others\\nwho are sure to have a severe fit\\nof asthma if they even smell roast\\nhare. Finally, some people are\\npoisoned if they eat rice, and can\\ndetect its presence in beer by their\\nsymptoms when merely a few\\ngrains of it have been put into the\\nbeer at the time of bottling.\\nIn our definition of food, there-\\nfore, we must make room for excep-\\ntions it is not all substances con-\\ntaining nutriment that are food for\\neverybody.\\nFoods are divided into two kinds,\\nthose in which the nitrogenous or", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 Food and Drink.\\nalbuminous elements predominate,\\nand those which contain the carbon\\nelements in the greater proportion.\\nTo the nitrogen class belong lean\\nof meat, cheese, French beans, peas,\\nlentils whereas the carbon class is\\nrepresented by fat of meat, butter,\\nfarinaceous foods, sugar, potatoes,\\nand bread. The only perfect food\\nis milk, containing both elements\\nin good proportions. Eggs also\\ncontain both elements, but they\\nare not such a perfect food as milk,\\nas they do not contain the neces-\\nsary salts in solution as milk does.\\nOf course there are other things in\\nfoods besides these two predomi-\\nnating elements, though these\\nserve to usefully classify them.\\nAnd it must not be supposed that", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Food and Drink. 33\\nthe members of one class have\\nnone of the elements characteristic\\nof the other. It is only the pro-\\nportion which serves to distinguish\\nthem meat contains carbon as well\\nas nitrogen, and bread contains\\nnitrogen as well as carbon. Nor\\nare the members of the same class\\nalike, rice and bread are both in\\nthe carbon class, but rice contains\\nless nitrogen than bread.\\nThere is another food element\\nthe importance of which has been\\nrightly emphasized by Dr. Lah-\\nmann, namely, food-salts. These\\nare contained in milk in the right\\nproportion as regards other food\\nelements, and also in the right\\nrelative proportions among them-\\nselves. Soda, potash, and lime", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34\\nFood and Drink.\\nsalts are the principal. These are\\ncontained in the various fruits and\\nvegetables in sufficient excess to\\nmake up for the deficiency of them\\nin meats, and pulse foods, such as\\npeas, beans, and lentils. It is im-\\nportant that vegetables should be\\ncooked by steaming, as the com-\\nmon practice of boiling them boils\\nmost of their salts out of them\\nand common table-salt does not\\nmake up for the deficiency.\\nCow s milk contains .7 per cent,\\nof food-salts, which have the fol-\\nlowing percentage composition\\nO\\n-SO\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009eo\\n3~\\nCO\\nO\\nOS\\ncd\\nU\\nB\\ngo\\nu a~0\\nOPw\\n,a\u00c2\u00ab1\\n*Cco\\nSO.\\na\\nC o5\\nPk\\n03\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00ba4\\nPm\\n0}\\n03\\na\\n24.67\\n9.70\\n22.05\\n3-05\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a253\\n28.45\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a230\\n.04\\n14.28", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Food and Drink. 35\\nMeat, white flour, potato, and\\npea contain very much less than\\nthe proper proportion of soda, lime,\\nancj chlorine than the standard of\\nmilk. Spinach, cabbage-lettuce,\\nand carrot contain more than the\\nstandard. Apple and strawberry\\ncontain more than the standard of\\nsoda but less of lime. This shows\\nthe necessity of plenty of fresh\\nfruits and green vegetables in the\\ndietary of a meat-eating people.\\nThe use of common table-salt is no\\nsubstitute for the lack of the right\\nfood-salts. Chloride of sodium is\\nmore of a stimulant than a food.\\nIt renders too rapid the passage\\nof fluid from the tissues and causes\\nan abnormal thirst. Salted meats\\nare not such valuable foods as", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 Food and Drink.\\nfresh meats and for this reason.\\nThree-fourths of the weight of\\nfresh meat consists of water but\\nin contact with salt fresh meat\\nloses some of its water, which\\npasses into the urine and carries\\nwith it a considerable part of the\\neffective organic and inorganic\\nconstituents of the meat (Gorup-\\nBesanez). A similar process of\\nu pickling goes on in the bodies\\nof those who eat excessively of\\nsalt. Another effect of over-in-\\ndulgence in salt is the creation of\\nacidity.*\\nFood, then to be satisfactory,\\nmust contain all of these elements\\nand the proportions should be about\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acl Natural Hygiene, H. Lahmann, M. D.,\\nLondon: Swan Sonnenschein.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Food and Drink. 37\\nfifteen of the carbon (fat and\\nsugar), and five of the nitrogen\\nclass (albumen), and one of salts.\\nIt is in order to keep the propor-\\ntion between carbon and nitrogen\\nthat potatoes are taken with meat,\\nand are better for that purpose than\\nbread, which itself contains much of\\nthe nitrogenous elements. Cheese\\nby itself is much too strong a food,\\nand needs to be taken with bread,\\nand perhaps butter as well.\\nProper food, then, which I have\\nsaid is the first requisite for the\\nhealthy stomach, consists of food-\\nsubstances combined in proper\\nproportions according to their\\nnature, and, of course, if cooked\\nat all properly cooked.\\nThere is much dispute about", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 Food and Drink.\\nalcohol, as to whether it is a food\\nor not in the proper sense of the\\nword. If it be a food it is an\\nuncommonly poor one. It is a\\ncarbohydrate, that is certain, and\\nit is capable of being absorbed into\\nthe blood but it no sooner gets\\nthere than every organ does its\\nbest to get rid of it, and if any of it\\nundergoes a change in the blood, it\\ncan only be a very small proportion.\\nIt is a safe rule to make, never to\\nconsider anything as a food when\\nthere is any doubt about whether it\\nis a food or not. There are plenty\\nof things about which there is no\\ndoubt. Let these be taken as food,\\nand if the doubtful articles are\\ntaken at all, let it be for some other\\nreason, and not with the idea of\\nnourishing the body.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Food and Drink. 39\\nAlcohol brings ine to the question\\nof drinks. Actually there is only\\none drink water. Beer, tea, coffee,\\nand the rest, are drinks, it is true,\\nbut they owe their property of\\nthirst-quenching to the water they\\ncontain, not to the substances which\\nflavour them. Milk is a drink, but\\nit contains so much food, which\\nbecomes solid as soon as it enters\\nthe stomach, that it should only be\\ntaken as a drink at meal-times by\\nthose who are not able to take much\\nsolid food. It is well, as mentioned\\nin the previous chapter, not to drink\\nmuch of any liquid during a meal,\\nbut to take a good draught before\\nit, or after it is over.\\nSome people have a great distaste\\nfor cold water, and some cannot", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "4-0 Food and Drink.\\ndigest it. For them hot water or\\ntoast-water may be substituted,\\nwhen other drinks are obj ectionable.\\nThe second great requisite for\\nthe stomach that I pointed out, is\\nProper quantity of food.\\nThe stomach requires a certain\\nmass of food for it to work on.\\nA healthy stomach will have noth-\\ning to do with essences or condensed\\nfoods; it requires bulk in order that\\nits muscular coat may have some-\\nthing to grasp and contract on, and\\nits secretion something to mix with.\\nIt is for this reason that the starchy\\nfoods, like potatoes, are the best to\\neat with meat, because the latter\\ncontains nutriment in so condensed\\na form that substances less rich\\nmust be added to make up suffi-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Food and Drink. 41\\ncient bulk. When foods are pre-\\nscribed in small quantity, and in\\nlight form, it is because the stomach\\nis in an abnormal condition.\\nThis leads me to speak of the\\nthird requisite Proper rest.\\nWhen the stomach has dealt with\\na meal, pouring out its secretion,\\nand by means of its muscular action\\nreducing it to a proper state for fur-\\nther digestion in the intestines, it\\npasses it on. Then the stomach\\nhas rest, and the other organs take\\nup the work. The effort it has\\ngone through is no light one, and\\nit needs time to recover itself. If\\nthis time of rest is broken by sub-\\nsidiary meals, or indulgence in con-\\nfectionery, the stomach resents it,\\nand the result is indigestion. Unless\\n4", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 Food and Drink.\\nunder special circumstances, no food\\nwhatever should be taken between\\nmeals, and a good five hours should\\nbe allowed between one meal and\\nanother. Three meals a day at 8,\\ni and 7 o clock is the best arrange-\\nment in an ordinary way. The\\nmiddle meal should be very light\\nif much active brain-work has to be\\ndone in the afternoon. In the morn-\\ning the stomach is most vigorous,\\nand a substantial meal can be taken\\nthen, though active work must be\\nbegun soon after. In the evening\\nthe powers of the body are more\\nexhausted by the day s exertions,\\nand yet a substantial meal can be\\ntaken at that time, as it is followed\\nby a period of rest and relaxation.\\nTo those in delicate health rest of", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Food and Drink. 43\\nbody,before and after food is almost\\nas essential as rest of stomach. The\\nrobust may sit down to a hearty\\nrepast immediately after fatiguing\\nemployment. Not so the delicate\\nfor them rest is necessary both\\nbefore a meal and after. I have\\nknown invalids unable to take the\\nlightest meal without suffering\\nindigestion, if they took it immedi-\\nately after the seemingly slight\\nfatigue of dressing whereas, if\\nthey rose a little earlier, so as to\\ngive themselves a quarter of an\\nhour s rest before the meal-time,\\nthey ate with more appetite and\\ndigested their food without trouble.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nINDIGESTION AFTER ITS KINDS.\\ni. From Indigestible Food.\\nT^7HEN a small boy strays into\\nan orchard before the fruit\\nis quite ripe, and indulges his\\nappetite without staying to reflect,\\nhe is apt to experience an attack\\nof indigestion of the simplest kind.\\nThe food he has eaten is not\\ndigested, but remains in his stom-\\nach like an irritating foreign body.\\nIf he is discovered in time, the\\nsimplest process is to give him an\\nemetic of salt-and-water or mustard-\\nand-water, and so get rid of it in", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "4-6 Indigestion after its Kinds.\\nthis way. But if it lias already had\\ntime to pass into the bowels, other\\nmeasures will be needed. The\\nsymptoms he experiences are sharp\\npains in the upper part of the body\\nor about the navel, and even cramp\\nand spasms which may go on to\\ngeneral convulsions. Stone fruit\\nbefore it is ripe will cause the same\\nsymptoms.\\nThose who have reached mature\\nyears are generally more discrimi-\\nnating in their diet, but every little\\nwhile they may forget themselves.\\nPerhaps it is some favourite dish\\nwhich they know does not agree\\nwith them, but which they cannot\\nresist, and then they know what to\\nexpect. The symptoms vary accord-\\ning to the food that has caused the", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 47\\nindigestion. Nuts cause pains in\\nthe stomach* and chest. Fat food,\\nespecially fat pork, causes nausea\\nand vomiting, with moist white\\ntongue. This is frequently accom-\\npanied by pains in the body and\\ndiarrhoea.\\nFood may be indigestible under\\nsome conditions, and digestible un-\\nder others. If a person in a state of\\n^Throughout this treatise I use the\\nword Stomach in the anatomical sense,\\nmeaning the organ which receives the\\nfood as soon as it is swallowed. The\\nstomach lies in the upper part of the ab-\\ndominal cavity, more on the left side\\nthan on the right, which is occupied by\\nthe liver. The stomach is protected by\\nthe lowest ribs on the leftside, and many\\nof the pains arising in the stomach are\\nfelt in the chest. In common speech the\\nStomach means the whole of the ab-\\ndomen, but I do not use it in this sense.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 Indigestion after its Kinds.\\nexhaustion sits down to a hearty\\nmeal, even though the food is no-\\nthing but what he is used to, he will\\nnot be able to digest it. In all\\nsuch states the very lightest food\\nshould be taken until the bodily\\npowers are restored, which usually\\nhappens after a sleep. Some people\\ncan eat hot meat very well, but not\\ncold meat, and to them cold meat is\\nan indigestible food. The explana-\\ntion of this is that in cold meat the\\nalbuminous and gelatinous parts\\nare set, whereas in hot meat they\\nare fluid, and these are more easily\\nacted on by the digestive juices;\\nmoreover, cold meat must become\\nwarm in the stomach before it can\\nbe digested, and this absorbs a cer-\\ntain amount of the stomach s vital", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 49\\nenergy. Pains in the chest and\\nintestines, flatulence, and great\\ndistress, are the penalty of want\\nof due care on these points.\\nUnder the same heading of indi-\\ngestion from indigestible food must\\ncome those cases due to defective\\nteeth. When the teeth are faulty\\nand cannot masticate the food\\nproperly before it is swallowed, it\\nreaches the stomach ill-prepared,\\nand sets up indigestion which is\\napt to become chronic. The rem-\\nedy in this case is to consult a\\ndentist, and if he cannot put mat-\\nters right, the food that is, the\\nsolid part of it will have to be\\npassed through a sausage machine\\nand so chewed artificially.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "5o Indigestion after its Kinds.\\n2. From excessive Indulgence in\\ngood Food.\\nIt is just as possible to injure the\\ndigestion with good food as with\\nbad, if too much of it is taken. By\\na process of training, the stomach\\ncan become developed out of pro-\\nportion to the rest of the body,\\nand then large quantities of food\\ncan be taken without any active\\nsymptoms of indigestion. The\\nstomach becomes to the gourmand\\nwhat the athlete s limbs are to him\\ncapable of an amount of exertion\\nbeyond the powers of other men.\\nBut over-development is not good\\nin any part of the body, be it\\nmuscle or be it stomach and the\\ngourmnad pays the penalty before", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 51\\nlong. His powerful digestion lays\\nup more pabulum than lie requires\\nhe grows in bulk without grow-\\ning in strength, and is one day\\nseized with a fit of gout, he is\\nfortunate if it attacks his toe and\\nnot some vital organ, or the stom-\\nach itself. Gouty dyspepsia is one\\nof the most troublesome kinds to\\ntreat. Gout may be inherited as\\nwell as acquired, so it is not always\\nthe sufferer s own fault. There is\\nin cases of gouty dyspepsia much\\nacidity, flatulence, pain, and con-\\nstipation.\\n3. From Alcohol.\\nThe man who drinks excessively\\nof beer loses consciousness, and has\\nan acute attack of indigestion and", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 Indigestion after its Kinds.\\nvomiting. The vomiting relieves\\nhis stomach, a few hours sleep\\nrestoring his senses, and after a\\nday s indisposition he is well. But\\none who habitually indulges in beer\\nand not necessarily to such excess,\\nwill have chronic dyspepsia of a dif-\\nferent kind. Alcohol acts on both\\nthe primary and the secondary\\ndigestion, and the action of beer is\\nto relax all the tissues of the body.\\nThe beer-drinker gradually be-\\ncomes of the flabby or sodden\\ntype, probably pale and rather fat,\\nand his digestion also becomes\\nflabby and slow, and the tongue is\\nlarge and yellow-coated, and there\\nis much flatulence. Those who\\nlive active lives in the open air in\\nthe country do not show the effects", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 53\\nso soon as those who live in towns\\nand get little exercise.\\nWine and spirits act somewhat\\ndifferently. They do not cause so\\nmuch puffiness as beer, but they\\nredden the skin more, causing dila-\\ntation of the small blood-vessels,\\nespecially of the nose. Often there\\nis pallor of the rest of the face,\\nleaving the nose only red. There\\nis in general wasting of the tissues\\nof the body.\\nOne marked symptom of the alco-\\nholic dyspepsia and this applies to\\nall kinds, whether from beer, wine,\\nor spirits is sickness in the morn-\\ning. There is bad appetite at any\\ntime, but in the morning, before\\nanything has been taken, there is\\nvomiting, of mucus generally. The", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 Indigestion after its Kinds.\\ntongue is tremulous, and there is a\\ntremor through the body flatulence\\nand constipation generally accom-\\npany this kind.\\n4. From Tobacco.\\nThe first attempts to smoke are\\nalmost always attended with an\\nacute attack of indigestion, deathly\\nnausea, and vomiting. But habitual\\nover-indulgence in tobacco causes\\ndyspepsia of a different kind. In\\nthe most aggravated form it is\\ncharacterized by perpetual sickness;\\nno food can be retained, and at this\\ntime, smoking, and even the smell\\nof tobacco, is intolerable. In the\\nless severe cases it takes the form\\nof acidity, heartburn, pain after tak-\\ning food, sinking sensation at the pit", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 55\\nof the stomach, and generally con-\\nstipation.\\n5. From Tea.\\nIt would be difficult to say which\\nis the greater cause of indigestion\\nalcohol or tea. It is true people\\ndon t often get drunk with the cup\\nthat u not inebriates (though there\\nhas been one case reported, in which\\na woman who ate tea suffered from\\ndelirium tremens in consequence),\\nbut they do often get dyspepsia.\\nIn the tea dyspepsia the nervous\\nsymptoms predominate. There is\\nmore pain at the stomach than\\nsickness or vomiting, the tongue\\nis not so large and flabby as with\\nbeer-drinkers, and the subjects of\\nit suffer more from what is called", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 Indigestion after its Kinds.\\nnerves. They are always on\\nhigh tension, easily startled, sleep\\nlittle, and have no appetite for any-\\nthing bnt tea. They want tea\\nalways it is the only thing that\\nrelieves the sinking they com-\\nplain of (itself a consequence of the\\ntea). They suffer much from low\\nspirits.\\n6. From Cold.\\nFew things stop digestion so soon\\nas lowering the bodily temperature.\\nA cold bath soon after a meal ar-\\nrests the process completely, and\\nis very apt to cause dangerous\\nsymptoms. A drive in cold air\\nwith insufficient wraps will cause\\nsymptoms of indigestion, chiefly\\npains in the stomach, and flatu-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 57\\nlence. The next meal gives great\\npain, and it takes some time for\\nthe stomach to recover from the in-\\njury.\\n7. From Bad Air.\\nWhen many hours of the twenty-\\nfour are passed in air that is spent,\\nheated by gas, or polluted by the\\nbreath of human beings which can-\\nnot escape, it is impossible for the\\ndigestion to go on properly. The\\nstomach, as well as the rest of the\\nbody, loses its proper vitality the\\ndigestive fluids are not able to\\ntransform the food eaten and, for\\nwant of proper oxygen in the\\nblood, the secondary digestion is\\nimperfectly performed. The re-\\nsults are wasting and pain.\\n5", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 Indigestion after its Kinds,\\n8. From Vinegar.\\nSome persons who have a ten-\\ndency to grow fat take to drinking\\nvinegar, in order to prevent snch\\na dreadfully unbecoming calamity\\nfalling upon them. Many have\\nsucceeded by this means in bring-\\ning about vinegar-consumption,\\nand dying of it Others have gain-\\ned their object at the price of no\\nworse a disease than ruined diges-\\ntion. Constant acidity, pain after\\nfood, flatulence, flushing of the\\nface, great thinness, are the leading\\nsymptoms of vinegar dyspepsia.\\n9. From Tight-lacing.\\nAnother vanity for which many\\nwomen pay dearly is a wasp-waist.\\nWherein the beauty of this ana-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 59\\ntomical enormity consists it is diffi-\\ncult to discover, and it must be\\nclassed along with the foot deform-\\ning custom of the Chinese, and\\nthe head flattening of some tribes\\nof North American Indians. The\\norgans of digestion resent it, and\\nshow their resentment by painting\\nthe nose red, and torturing the\\noffender whenever she attempts to\\nput food into the stomach without\\nleaving it proper room. Constipa-\\ntion is usually one result of this.\\n10. From Nervous Debility.\\nSome of the most inveterate cases\\nof indigestion arise from weakness\\nof the nervous system. This may\\nbe brought on in many ways. It\\nmay be due to nervous strain or", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "6o Indigestion after its Kinds.\\nworry of business. It may arise\\nfrom fright, mental shock, or anx-\\niety. Much more frequently it\\narises from evil habits and abuse\\nof the organs of generation. One\\nvicious boy at school will often\\ncorrupt numbers of others, and so\\nthe disease will spread like an in-\\nfection, bearing fruit before long\\nin the loss of all manly qualities,\\nand in sufferings of a most dis-\\ntressing kind connected with the\\nprocess of digestion. These cases,\\nlike most of the others, are curable,\\nbut they need much care, and, of\\ncourse, a sine qua non is the aban-\\ndonment of the habits that have\\nbrought about the disorder.\\nii. From Bloodlessness.\\nYoung girls between 12 and 20", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 61\\nare very frequently affected with a\\ndisease commonly called green-\\nsickness. This is chiefly a fault\\nof digestion, primary or secondary,\\nor both, but it is also a fruitful\\ncause of digestive troubles. There\\nis almost complete loss of appetite,\\nconstant nausea, frequent vomiting.\\nUsually, also, there is great weak-\\nness and constipation. When the\\ncondition is attended by violent\\npains at the stomach after all food,\\nit is not easy to distinguish be-\\ntween simple indigestion and ul-\\nceration of the stomach. This is\\nusually declared by vomiting of\\nblood in quantity, which never\\ntakes place in ordinary indiges-\\ntion, and is rarely, if ever, absent\\nat some period of ulceration.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 Indigestion after its Kinds.\\n12. Medicinal.\\nMany a sufferer from indigestion\\ntraces his troubles to the prescrip-\\ntions of his doctor. It is one of the\\ncommonest experiences of medical\\nlife, to find digestion ruined by\\nstrong drugs given for other com-\\nplaints. Others owe it not to their\\ndoctors, but to their own efforts to\\ncure themselves with drugs. Prob-\\nably, in the first instance, it has\\nbeen a slight attack of indigestion\\nfrom indiscretion in diet, for which\\nthe offender has purchased a drug\\naccording to his own fancy. Then\\nthe drug has set up symptoms of its\\nown, for which he has taken more\\ndrugs. More symptoms have fol-\\nlowed, and the drugging has become", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 63\\na habit which he has not been able to\\nbreak off. Palliatives, like Carbon-\\nate of Soda andBismut/z, are respon-\\nsible for many cases of confirmed\\ndyspepsia, and Iron, Mercury, and\\nacids for many more. The symp-\\ntoms in these cases vary according\\nto the drngs which have caused\\nthem.\\n1 3 Constitutional.\\nA depraved or disordered consti-\\ntutional state is often answerable\\nfor chronic indigestion. Persons\\nwho inherit a tendency to skin dis-\\nease frequently find that when\\ntheir skin is affected their digestion\\nis good, and vice versa. This is\\nwhat Hahnemann called psora. In\\nsuch cases, the only treatment that", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 Indigestion after its Kinds.\\nis of any permanent service is one\\nwhich is directed to the constitution\\nas a whole. The indigestion is\\nonly one symptom of many.\\nIndigestion is frequently a man-\\nifestation of the consumptive ten-\\ndency which is one of the branches\\nof Psora, and in such cases Tuber-\\nculinum or Bacillinum often greatly\\nassists the cure. Occasional doses\\nmay be given inter-currently with\\nthe symptomatically indicated rem-\\nedy.\\nThe hydrogenoid constitution of\\nGrauvogl is answerable for many\\nindigestive troubles. The symp-\\ntoms of this are an extraordinary\\nsensitiveness to cold, damp, and\\nbarometrical changes. The persons\\nare always chilly. Residence by", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 65\\nwater, in valleys, or forests, passing\\nstorms, and change of weather\\nbrings on attacks of illness, which\\ntakes various forms. Sometimes it\\nis general malaise, with no definite\\nsymptoms, only the patient feels\\nwretched, good for nothing. At\\nother times it is an attack of asthma\\nor ague. Certain kinds of food\\ndisagree with them, such as melons,\\ncucumbers, mushrooms, bard-boiled\\neggs, watery fruits, fish, and some-\\ntimes milk. They are generally\\npale, and have cold feet. They\\nare better in summer than in\\nwinter, and are relieved when they\\nperspire. This constitution may\\nbe inherited or acquired. It often\\nfollows malarial poisoning. The\\nparticular form of indigestion at-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 Indigestion after its Kinds,\\ntending this constitution is marked\\nby pains in the stomach, water-\\nbrash eructations of odourless gas,\\noften brought on by eating watery\\nfruits or vegetables and vegetable\\nacids. There is distaste for animal\\nfood, though the appetite is often\\ngood.\\nVaccination often leaves behind\\nit a depraved state of the consti-\\ntution with many hydrogenoid\\nsymptoms, and the development\\nof abdominal flatulence. Thuja\\nmeets most of these cases.\\n14. From Gout,\\nChronic gout is answerable for\\nmuch indigestion. It takes a great\\nvariety of forms and is often at-\\ntended with pains in the joints or", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Indigestion after its Kinds. 67\\naffections of the skin. There is loss\\nof appetite, acidity, tendency to\\nflatulence, generally constipation.\\nGouty persons are inclined to the\\nformation of fat in spite of small\\nappetite. This is in consequence of\\ninsufficient oxidation of the tissues.\\nThey have nearly always a great\\ndesire for the open air.\\nSome persons who are constitu-\\ntionally dyspeptic always suffer\\nfrom an attack when the wind is in\\nthe east.\\nIn addition to the above-named,\\nthere are cases of dyspepsia arising\\nfrom causes which cannot easily be\\nclassed, and some which seem to\\narise from no discoverable cause,\\nand which are hence termed self-\\ncausing, or, in the medical phrase,\\ni\u00e2\u0082\u00ac idiopathic.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 Indigestion after its Kinds.\\nIn the following chapter I shall\\ndescribe the treatment of the dif-\\nferent kinds of indigestion, and\\nshall relate a nnmber of typical\\ncases.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nTREATMENT OF INDIGESTION, WITH\\nILLUSTRATIVE CASES.\\ni. Improper Food.\\nCase I. Convulsions from eating\\nIndigestible Food, Cured by Nux\\nvomica.\\nOOME years ago I was called in a great\\nhurry to see a girl, about eight years\\nk old, in convulsions. The child was com-\\npletely unconscious, was struggling vio-\\nlently, the eyes were distorted, and the\\nface dark. It was the beginning of the\\nfruit season, and I discovered that she\\nhad eaten some foreign plums an hour or\\nso before the attack came on. There was\\nscarcely any remission in the convul-\\nsions; she went out of one into another.\\nI mixed a few drops of Nux vomica in", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "jo Treatment of Indigestion,\\nwater, and put a little of it between her\\nteeth every two or three minutes. After\\na few doses she was quieter, and at last\\nwas able to swallow the medicine. I\\nstayed with her for about an hour, by\\nwhich time the convulsions had entirely\\nceased, and they did not return. She\\npassed a quantity of the indigestible fruit\\nby the bowels, and the next day was\\nquite well.\\nNux vomica is the most fre-\\nquently called for remedy in cases\\nof acute indigestion from improper\\nfood. But if the food is of a rich\\nor fat kind, as fat pork, Pulsatilla\\nmust be given.\\nThe dieting in these cases is a\\nsimple affair. No food of any kind\\nshould be given until the attack is\\nover. If there is thirst, water or\\ntoast-water may be given, as much\\nas is desired.\\nWhen habitual disregard of the", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 71\\nstomach s requirements has set up\\na chronic indigestion, the same\\nremedies will be demanded accord-\\ning to their symptoms. Consult\\nalso in the Materia Medica,\\nArsen., Hydrast., Ac. carboL, Kali\\nbichrom., and the chapter on Diet.\\n2. Irregularities of Diet.\\nCase II. Extreme Dyspepsia with\\nMental Symptoms from Irregu-\\nlarities of Diet, etc., Sulphur,\\nLycopodium, and Nux vomica.\\nIn November, 1890, I was written to\\nfrom the country by a young lady com-\\nplaining of inability to take any kind of\\nfood, more especially meat, without the\\nmost intense suffering, bodily and men-\\ntal. From her description of her case I\\ngathered that she might be helped by\\ntreatment, and asked her to come to", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "7 2 Treatment of Indigestion y\\ntown to see me, which she did, accompa-\\nnied by a friend. She was extremely\\nthin, somewhat anaemic, with the ruddy\\ncomplexion on a pale skin that is found\\nin many cases of anaemia. She looked\\ngreatly depressed, and was, in fact, in\\nvery low spirits; very irritable, and liked\\nto be alone.\\nUp to the previous June she had been\\nin excellent health. In that month she\\nhad visited a sister who was ill, and\\nhelped to nurse her. This entailed much\\nworry, and she was subjected to great ir-\\nregularity in the times of taking meals.\\nIn addition to this she was frequently ex-\\nposed to cold, going out in thin shoes\\nand getting her feet wet when heated.\\nThe first symptoms which ensued were\\ncontinual and almost unbearable pains\\nin the back, severe headaches, loss of\\nappetite, and unpleasant taste in the\\nmouth, and a great distaste for meat.\\nShe had great thirst, and the bowels\\nwere constipated. At last she could not", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 73\\ntake the smallest piece of anything with-\\nout great pain, and she became dread-\\nfully low-spirited and cried much. She\\nhad a queer feeling in her head as if she\\ncould not think. She took medical ad-\\nvice, but did not improve. In August\\nher friends became so much alarmed\\nabout her condition, both mental and\\nbodily, that they induced her to go away\\nfor a change to the seaside. There\\nthings got worse rather than better. She\\nforced herself to eat in spite of the in-\\ntense pain and general discomfort the\\nfood caused; she had constant nausea,\\nespecially in the morning, and either\\nhad diarrhoea or was constipated. Re-\\nturning home she tried starving herself,\\ntaking only liquid foods and not much\\nof them, and she found that the less she\\ntook of anything the better she felt,\\nthough she became very weak and felt\\ndreadfully exhausted at times.\\nThings went on very much in this\\nway till she consulted me in November.\\n6", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nHer condition at that time was as fol-\\nlows:\\nShe was extremely thin and weak.\\nThough quite young, her hair was gray-\\nish, and had been so for three months.\\nHer face burned frequently, and more\\nespecially after food. Her tongue was\\nwhite; she had thick white phlegm in\\nthe throat, which felt sore and rough in\\nthe evening.\\nThe especial dyspeptic symptoms were\\nthe following, a craving for food and a\\nsense of weight felt in the lowest part of\\nthe abdomen, and made worse by eating.\\nSinking, empty feeling all day. Flatu-\\nlence both of stomach and bowels. Vomits\\nfood at times. Sour eructations at times,\\nand sometimes she hawks or coughs up\\nwhite or yellow phlegm. Rumbling in\\nthe bowels, distension after food, particu-\\nlarly after breakfast. Bowels always\\nconstipated; motions dark, accompanied\\nwith pain; urine has been very thick and\\nred, with sediment at times.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 75\\nThere was aching in chest in the morn-\\ning on waking. Pulse slow and soft.\\nContinual and almost unbearable pain in\\nthe back. Aching in limbs from exer-\\ntion. Feet very cold; hands and feet\\nused formerly to perspire much, but have\\nnot done so for the last three or four\\nmonths. Sleep poor, wakes between 3\\nand 4 A. m. She is very chilly, and is\\nbetter when warm. She received Sulphur\\nas a medicine, and was told that in spite\\nof the suffering it gave her she must per-\\nsevere in taking food. She was to have\\nscalded milk (that is, cold milk into\\nwhich an equal quantity of boiling water\\nhas been poured) in place of tea and coffee.\\nBreakfast at 8, of porridge, raw egg or\\nbacon. At 1 o clock, beef-tea, milk pud-\\nding, no vegetables. At 5, toast with\\nscalded milk. At 8.30, bread and milk.\\nIn a fortnight she reported herself better\\nin some respects. The pain in the back\\nwas less severe. She had not vomited,\\nthough the nausea continued. She com-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nplained of a sensation as if the food rose\\nup into the throat and stuck there. There\\nwas less flatulence. The urine was clearer.\\nThe bowels were still confined, though\\nshe had an action each day. She felt the\\nintense cold of the weather very much.\\nShe still slept badly. Eggs disagreed\\nwith her.\\nThe next prescription was Lycopodium;\\nand in the way of diet I ordered Nichol s\\nFood of Health (a preparation of\\nwheat) in place of oatmeal porridge.\\nThe Lycopodium seemed to aggravate\\nher symptoms she felt less well the\\nconstipation became worse she had a\\nworrying headache in forehead and left\\ntemple thick jelly-like and greenish or\\nyellow phlegm from upper part of throat\\ncame after eating. The Lycopodium was\\nnow replaced by Nux vomica, and this\\nmade a speedy change for the better. In\\na week the pains in the body and back\\nwere much better the headaches had", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 77\\ngone the constipation was better she\\ncould eat eggs without any discomfort\\nand her spirits were very much better.\\nThough still waking early in the morning,\\nshe was practically quite well in body and\\nmind by the end of January. I forgot to\\nmention, as showing the alarming state\\nshe was in, that the friend who came with\\nher when she visited me first, asked me\\nprivately, after the interview, if I did not\\nthink the patient was going out of her\\nmind. My reply was, that the mental\\ncondition was secondary to the bodily\\ndisease, and would become all right when\\nthe latter was remedied.\\nThis was a case in which the condition\\nhad gone so far that mere reform in diet\\nwas not sufficient to restore the patient\\nthe additional help of the gentle powers\\nof homoeopathic medicines was needed\\nfor the cure.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 Treatment of Indigestion,\\n3. Alcohol.\\nThe value of Nux vomica in\\ndissipating the effects of a too free\\nindulgence in the pleasures of the\\ntable is too well known to need\\nillustrating. The splitting head-\\nache, dirty tongue, and absence of\\nappetite, experienced the following\\nmorning, sends the delinquent who\\nhas once tried it to the Nux vomica\\nbottle ever after. Older sinners,\\nwith tremulous, white-coated\\ntongue, vomiting in the morning,\\npale face, and no appetite, will find\\nsome relief from Antim. tart., and\\nif they can be persuaded to give up\\ntheir tippling habits, they may re-\\ncover and preserve a measure of\\nthe strength they have squandered.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 79\\nAnd even when it has come to a\\ncase of hob-nail liver and dropsy,\\nhope must not be abandoned, as\\nthe following case will show\\nCask III. Chronic Alcoholism Cir-\\nrhosis of the Liver; Dropsy; In-\\ndigestion Great Amelioration,\\nChi?ia y Kali carb.\\nOn the nth of December, 1886, there\\ncame to my clinique at the Homoeopathic\\nHospital a man, E. T., aged 45, an\\ninspector on the railway by occupation.\\nHe was a tall, large man, having his\\nface covered with the red spots charac-\\nteristic of spirit drinkers. He had recently\\nbeen discharged from St Thomas s Hospi-\\ntal as incurable, having been in there thir-\\nteen weeks, during which period he was\\ntapped four times for dropsy. Ever since\\nhe was tapped the third time he had", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 Treatment of Indigestion.\\nsuffered from pain about the navel shortly\\nafter anything he had eaten or drunk.\\nIn addition to this, he complained of\\nswelling of the limbs and body, coldness\\nof the hands, pain in the bowels, the\\nmotions being light, and bad sleep. The\\ntongue was clean, the appetite good in\\nspite of the pain caused by eating. There\\nwas much dropsy of the legs and body,\\nthe liver was hard and small, and its\\nsharp edge could be distinctly felt beneath\\nthe ribs. He had been a great drinker,\\nhis favourite drink being gin and water,\\ncold. When he left St. Thomas s Hospital\\nhe was not warned about his drinking\\nhabits.\\nNine months previous to the date of\\nmy seeing him first, he had been for six\\nweeks under his club doctor, and received\\nso much benefit that he thought he was\\ncured.\\nThree years previously he had lost his\\nwife and his health had^never been the", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 81\\nsame after. He suffered from rheumatic\\ngout at times. Sixteen years before, he\\nhad gastric fever very badly, but except\\nfor these had never suffered from any\\nillness.\\nWhen this patient came to me first I\\nhappened to have several medical students\\nconnected with St. Thomas s Hospital\\nwatching my work, and as they were\\nacquainted with the case of E. T. and\\nthe treatment he had received at St.\\nThomas s, and its results, they were\\nanxious to see what else could be done\\nfor him.\\nI prescribed China in the i x dilution to\\nbe taken three times a day, with the same\\nmedicine in the 30 th dilution to be taken\\nat bedtime. I also cautioned him about\\nhis drinking habits, but I regret to say,\\nwithout very much effect.\\nHe returned in a fortnight, and his\\nformer hospital acquaintances were able\\nto note a marked change for the better,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nHe had lost all pains after food, and\\nalso the pains in his limbs, which were\\nsmaller; the abdomen was less distended;\\nthe motions were darker in colour, and\\na troublesome cough from which he\\nsuffered was better also.\\nUnder this same medicine he steadily\\nimproved gradually all the dropsy dis-\\nappeared out of his legs, and he was able\\nto do his work with comfort. Once, when\\nhis face became very troublesome, the\\npimples being inflamed and red, I gave\\nhim Kali carb. 30 for a few days, and\\nwith good effect. This was the only alter-\\nation I made in the original prescription,\\nand he ceased attending on March 25th.\\nHe continued at work till the following\\nautumn, and might have been at work\\nstill, in my opinion, if he could only have\\nkept from alcohol. This, however, he failed\\nto do, and I heard that he died after a\\nvery short illness following a severe cold.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 83\\n4. Tobacco.\\nCase IV. Aggravated Dyspepsia\\ncaused by Tobacco Poisoning,\\nCured mainly by Nux vomica.\\nAt Christmas, 1886, an active man of\\nbusiness came up from the country to\\nplace himself under my care with symp-\\ntoms of acute indigestion. He was 46\\nyears of age, short but stout, and had\\nbeen exceedingly strong his complexion\\nwas dark and rather sallow. There was\\nnot much doubt about the cause of his\\nindigestion. He had commenced to smoke\\nat 12, and had continued to use the drug\\nin excess, both chewing and smoking,\\nuntil a year before he came to see me.\\nAt that time he had met with an accident,\\nbeing thrown from his trap, and after this\\nhis health failed rapidly. He began to be\\nsick after his breakfast had tingling in\\nhis right thigh lost flesh was bilious\\nand depressed. He left off his after-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nbreakfast pipe, and only smoked after his\\ndinner. The sickness then ceased for a\\ntime, but soon returned as badly as ever.\\nHe consulted several medical men, and\\nreceived a little help from some of them.\\nIn September a lay friend, who is skillful\\nin the use of Homoeopathy, happening to\\nbe visiting at his house, took him in hand,\\nand gave him Nux vomica. At that time\\nsmoking was an impossibility he vomited\\nas soon as he attempted to smoke his\\nsickness was extreme he could not walk\\nalong the street without vomiting. Under\\nNux vomica he improved in a surprising\\nmanner, and soon regained appetite and\\ndigestion. In a week he felt so well that\\nhe thought he might try a pipe again.\\nAgain the sickness came on as violently\\nas before, and this time, though the Nux\\nhelped him, it did not restore him so\\ncompletely as at first. Now his sensitive-\\nness to tobacco was so great that he could", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 85\\nnot bear to be in a room where anyone\\nwas smoking.\\nWhen he came under my care, Nux\\nwas again the chief agent in his restora-\\ntion. Calc. carb. was very efficient in\\ncorrecting the acidity which was one of\\nhis symptoms, and Iodide of Arsenic also\\ndid him great good, but Nux again\\npractically cured him. He was able,\\nwhen I heard from him last, to eat any\\nkind of food he attended to his business,\\nand was steadily gaining weight. Of\\ncourse all this time he abstained from\\ntobacco.\\nBesides the remedies used in this case,\\nIpecac, is also a useful remedy in tobacco\\ndyspepsia, relieving the sickness greatly.\\nCase V. Indigestion with Indu-\\nrated Liver; Alcoholic History.\\nA city gentleman, about 50, came to\\nme in- the summer of 1895, complaining\\nof a pain in his left flank and round the", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 Treatment of Indigestion.\\nbody, giddiness, flatulence, and great\\ndepression of spirits. Eight years before\\nhe had had stone in the bladder. For\\nthe last two or three years he had\\nsuffered from liver symptoms, and since\\nthen he had been very chilly, whereas\\npreviously he never felt the cold. He\\nhad had eczema severely, but he found\\nout that it was only when he took fruit.\\nThe giddiness occurred when he turned\\nhis head. This had troubled him at\\ntimes since the previous winter, when he\\nhad several severe attacks, the first one\\noccurring in a train.\\nHis tongue was dirty. Good appetite\\nexcept for breakfast. His appetite was\\nbetter than his digestion. Formerly he\\nhad been in the habit of drinking too\\nmuch beer, but recently he had taken\\nnone, though he had not given up alcohol\\naltogether. He had a sinking sensation\\nat the epigastrium before lunch. Had a\\npain in left flank and all round the", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 87\\nabdomen when he moved. The bowels used\\nto be constipated, but since he had taken\\nCarbo veg. on his own account that had\\nbeen remedied, and he had discarded the\\nuse of Hunyadi Janos water, on which he\\nhad depended before. He had a pain in\\nthe soft part of the loins going round to\\nthe front on both sides. The fingers were\\nshrivelled as in cholera patients and after\\nwashing there was a peculiar odour from\\nthe tips, lasting a long time.\\nOn examination I found his liver was\\nconsiderably enlarged, and very hard and\\ntender. There w r as a venous zig-zag\\nalong the attachment of the diaphragm.\\nThe indication for Bryonia, especially\\nthe marked aggravation from movement,\\nwas sufficiently clear, and he received\\nthat medicine in the 30th.\\nSixteen days later he reported that the\\npain gradually disappeared, also the dead-\\nnessof the fingers; was free fromheadache,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 Treatment of Indigestion\\nbut had slept badly on account of irrita-\\ntion at the rectum.\\nR. SuL 30 ter die. Verbascum Oint-\\nment.\\nThree weeks later he reported himself\\nmuch better. Irritation gone. Very little\\nindigestion. The liver was softer, though\\nthe spleen dulness was increased. He\\nwas suffering from a cold, for which Cepa\\n30 was given with relief, and then he had\\nNat. mur. 30. Calc. c. and Psor. 30\\nwere given later, and he lost all his dis-\\ntressing symptoms, though his weight re-\\nmained much below his normal.\\nCask VI. Tobacco and Whisky Dys-\\npepsia Lycopodiu m\\nHere is a somewhat similar case of more\\nrecent date. J. M., 35, wrote to me from\\nthe north of Scotland in May, 1890, com-\\nplaining of indigestion which had troubled\\nhim for four years, before which time he\\nhad been exceptionally strong.\\nThe chief symptoms he complained of", "height": "3659", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 89\\nwere: A sweetish taste in the mouth;\\ntongue thickly coated, white in the morn-\\ning and yellow in the evening; hot,\\nburninig risings in the throat, which was\\ninflamed at the right side sometimes;\\nwhite sediment in the urine after stand-\\ning. Besides these he had other related\\nsymptoms; he was unable to think at\\ntimes, could not concentrate his thoughts\\non any matter he had to do, and at those\\ntimes he had a feeling as if the blood\\nwere running cold in his head; he was\\neither very drowsy or sleepy, or else very\\ncross, and his sleep was unrefreshing.\\nHe was always chilly, always catching\\ncold, and obliged to wear very heavy\\nclothing. He was a heavy smoker, and\\nalso took whisky. These I stopped, and\\nalso forbade all kinds of stimulating food\\nand drinks. The medicine I prescribed\\nwas Nux vom. in a high attenuation.\\nIn a month he wrote that he was still\\ntroubled a good deal with the sour risings,\\n7", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nthe condition of the mouth, and the white\\nsediment in the urine. It was evident the\\nNux was not a sufficiently deeply-acting\\nremedy to reach his complaint; though\\nfor the purpose of antidoting the effect of\\nhis bad habits and of preparing the way\\nfor the constitutional remedy, it was the\\nnatural one to think of first. The next\\nmedicine on the list of similars was Ly co-\\npodium, the leading indications being\\nacid risings, sore throat, worse on right\\nside, white sediment in urine (though with\\nLycopodium it is more characteristically\\nred), excessive chilliness, mental confu-\\nsion. I sent him three powders of the\\nmedicine in the same attenuation, with\\ndirections to take one at bedtime, one\\nthe following morning, and one again at\\nbedtime. The medicine was now allowed\\nto act without further repetition.\\nThe change wrought by these three\\ndoses may be estimated by the man s own\\nwords. Writing a month later, he said,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 91\\n14 I have felt much better with the last\\nmedicine than the first. The tongue is\\nless white, sometimes the coat has cleaned\\nright off, though it has come on again.\\nI feel much stronger now and quite\\nwarm. No more medicine was given\\nor required. The increase in the bodily\\nheat is a sure sign of regained vitality.\\n5. Tea.\\nCase VII. Tea Dyspepsia, Cured by\\nMerc. sol. Actcea racemosa, etc.\\nEmma E. 39, dressmaker, consulted me\\nat the London Homoeopathic Hospital on\\nJune 21st, 1883, complaining of the fol-\\nlowing symptoms: Great nervousness;\\npain in the left side when she ate; sen-\\nsation as if there was a weight on the\\nshoulders and back, especially when tired;\\naching in the nape of the neck all day;\\noffensive breath, bleeding gums, bad taste", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nin the mouth, white tongue restless\\nsleep. The bowels were regular and the\\nappetite good. She took her meals at\\nregular times, and drank ni7ie cups of tea\\nin a day.\\nI told her she must give up her tea,\\nand gave her Merc. sol. 6, in drop doses\\nfour times a day.\\nShe returned in a fortnight, and re-\\nported that she had reduced her allow-\\nance to six cups daily.\\nThe sharp pains she complained of were\\nbetter than they had been for years, and\\nshe slept better the breath was still\\noffensive. Repeat medicine.\\nShe was not able to attend for a few\\nw r eeks, and having been out of medicine\\nwas not so well. She was so very nervous.\\nBy this time she had got down to four\\ncups a day. Repeat medicine.\\nOn Aug. nth, she received Act. rac. for\\nheadache, and did not return till Oct. 6th,\\nwhen she reported that the medicine had", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 93\\ndone her head good, but now she had sore-\\nness of the chest, and much flatulence.\\nCarbo veg. 6, one drop four times a day.\\nNov. 3. Has kept well till to-day. Now\\nhas palpitation headache at the back of\\nthe head sore feeling within the head\\ngiddiness flatulence. Gels. 1 one drop\\nfour times a day.\\nOn Nov. 1 7, a fortnight after, she report-\\ned that she had not been so well for years.\\nThe head was very much better, and she\\nhad hardly any of the palpitation. She\\nhad now brought herself to two cups of tea\\na day. She received more of the medicine,\\nand soon after ceased to attend.\\nIn each instance the medicine given\\nresponded admirably to its indications, but\\nI question if she would have received much\\nbenefit if she had not, besides, cut down\\nher allowance of tea. It is possible to\\nantidote a poison when the poison is being\\ntaken, but it is easier to antidote its effects\\nwhen it is no longer present. Sometimes", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nthe effects of a poison, if not antidoted,\\nwill last for years after the last dose has\\nbeen taken.\\nCask VIII. Tea Dyspepsia.\\nThe next case I give not as an\\nexample of treatment, but as a\\ntypical case of the disease. The\\npatient, for some reason or other,\\ndid not persevere with the treat-\\nment, bnt she has left me her\\nhistory, and here I give it\\nM. G., 42, housewife, presented her-\\nself at the Homoeopathic Hospital on\\nSept. 8th, 1883.\\nShe complained of pain in the chest,\\nwhich she had had for weeks bad sleep\\npressure on the chest on falling asleep\\nwhite tongue poor appetite headache\\nacross the forehead. She drank much\\ntea, taking it three or four times a day.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 95\\nShe felt very ill after it, especially if she\\ntook it hot.\\nBryonia made no improvement in her\\ncase; she had much sickness and retching,\\nand the head was very sore. She did not\\nreport herself after the second visit.\\nTea produces two sets of symptoms,\\nnervous and dyspeptic, and sometimes\\nboth combined. In some it produces fits\\nof low spirits, and no other disorder.\\nWhen taken to great excess, it causes\\nparalysis. Besides the medicines given\\nin the above reported cases, China, Fer-\\nrum, Thuja, and Arsenic are good anti-\\ndotes to tea poisoning.\\n6. Arsenic.\\nCask IX. Arsenic Dyspepsia, Cured\\nby Bryonia.\\nSpeaking of Arsenic reminds me\\nof a frequent cause of dyspepsia,\\nwhich I have not particularly", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nspecified in the preceding chapter,\\nbut which I will illustrate here.\\nA young married woman came to me\\nsome time ago, complaining of symptoms\\nof dyspepsia, chiefly weight at the\\nstomach and pains through from the pit\\nof the stomach to the back between the\\nshoulders after everything she ate. She\\nwas pale and her lips were somewhat\\npallid The tongue was red, with a white\\nsilvery coating; the bowels were confined.\\nShe was temperate in all her habits.\\nI suspected Arsenic at once. She said\\nthat her husband suffered from similar\\nsymptoms, and I told her to bring me\\nsome of her wall-paper, giving her Bry-\\nonia to take until she came next. When\\nshe returned she reported very great im-\\nprovement in the symptoms. This might\\nhave made me doubt my first diagnosis,\\ndid I not know that it is possible to cure\\nan effect sometimes even whilst the cause", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 97\\nremains. I examined the paper, and then\\nfound Arsenic in great quantity. When\\nthe paper was taken away, both she and\\nher husband became perfectly well.\\n7. Cold.\\nCask X. Dyspepsia from Cold,\\nCured by Carbo veg.\\nExposure to cold has the effect\\nof stopping digestion, the result of\\nwhich is, in a general way, to pro-\\nduce a great quantity of gas in the\\nstomach and intestines.\\nA professional man, riding home on the\\ntop of an omnibus, facing a cold wind,\\nfelt pains in his chest and body of a\\nsharp cutting kind. He had experienced\\nthe same thing on previous occasions, and\\nhad at times suffered off and on for days\\nfrom weak digestion, the symptoms re-\\nturning after every meal. On this par-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nticular occasion, a few drops of Carbo veg.\\n6 relieved him at once of all his trouble.\\nCask XI. Dyspepsia from Cold\\nPlumbum.\\nA young lady, after leaving off a flan-\\nnel skirt for some obscure reason in cold\\nweather, was seized with violent pains in\\nher body, aggravated after everything she\\nate, no matter what. The pains kept her\\nawake at night, and she had cramp in\\nher calves and constipation. After some\\nremedies had been given without bene-\\nfit, Plumbum 6 cured her on this occa-\\nsion, and also subsequently when a\\nsimilar imprudence brought on a renewal\\nof the attack.\\n8. Bad Air.\\nCask XII. Dyspepsia from Bad Air.\\nWm. D., 33, lithographer, consulted\\nme at the Homoeopathic Hospital for in-\\ndigestion, flatulence, inability to sleep,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 99\\nloss of memory, and constipation. He\\nwas temperate and did not smoke. He\\nworked much over gas, and to this I at-\\ntribute the greater part of the symptoms.\\nNux vomica made a great alteration for\\nthe better in all his symptoms, and he did\\nnot return till two months later. Then\\nhe had a return of the old symptoms with\\npiles, and again Nux, with a dose of\\nSulphur at bedtime, put him right.\\n9. Vinegar Dyspepsia.\\nWhen acidity and flatulence are\\nthe leading symptoms of this form\\nof dyspepsia, Carbo veg. is the best\\nremedy. When the wasting is ex-\\ntreme, Iodine must be given.\\n10. Tight-lacing Dyspepsia.\\nThe symptoms of this kind of\\ndyspepsia are very varied, and will\\nutfO,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "ioo Treatment of Indigestion,\\ncall for a great variety of remedies.\\nOf course, the chief remedy is to\\ndiscard stays and let the ribs have\\ntheir natural motion, and the abdo-\\nminal organs room to act properly.\\nNux vomica, Carbo veg., Bryonia,\\nIgnatia, and Sulphur, must be con-\\nsulted.\\n1 1 Dyspepsia from Nervous\\nDebility.\\nCase XIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dyspepsia from Nervous\\nShock Iodine.\\nA young lady of gouty family, but en-\\njoying good health, active, well nourished,\\nand somewhat stout, met with a severe\\nnervous shock. From that time her health\\nfailed. She lost appetite, all food becoming\\ndistasteful to her, she had frequent attacks\\nof vomiting, and from being stout, wasted\\nrapidly. She had been under treatment", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 101\\nbefore coming to me, and had received\\nsome benefit, but not much. After trying\\none or two medicines, I put her on Iodine,\\nand on this she began to recover steadily.\\nAfter taking this some time she was re-\\nstored to a large measure of health and\\ncomfort, though when she left off treat-\\nment she was not quite the same as she\\nw 7 as before the shock.\\nThis is one type of dyspepsia\\nfrom nervous weakness. Business\\ncauses and continued anxieties are\\nequally prejudicial to digestion,\\nand are best removed by such\\nmedicines as Ignatta.\\nBut there is another and often\\nmore serious kind of dyspepsia,\\nwhere the disease is due not to\\nmental but to physical causes. The\\nusual history is the acquirement of\\nevil habits at school, young boys", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nbeing led on by those older and\\nwickeder than themselves. These\\nhabits are indulged in secretly,\\nuntil something happens to startle\\nthe youth into a sense of his\\ncriminal folly.\\nCask XIV. Dyspepsia resulting\\nfrom Nervous Debility.\\nA youth with the above history con-\\nsulted me a year or so ago for his indiges-\\ntion. He had great flatulence, which he\\nwas continually belching, acidity, and\\nheartburn, great sleepiness (w 7 hich was a\\nserious trouble to him, as he was working\\nfor an examination). He had queer feel-\\nings in his head, and had attacks of\\nnausea, but did not vomit. His bowels\\nwere constipated. He came of a dyspep-\\ntic family, and had been allowed to eat\\nindigestible things when a child, but that\\nwas not the cause of his present attack,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases, 103\\nthough both circumstances helped to\\nmake it the difficult case it was to treat.\\nThere were certain things that made\\nhis symptoms worse. The eructations\\nwere worse after eating water-melon or\\nrice pudding, and much worse after blanc-\\nmange and custard.\\nHe had a voracious appetite.\\nI put him on a very strict regimen,\\nwhich he faithfully followed. He had\\nbeen in the habit of dining in the middle\\nof the day, and taking tea in the after-\\nnoon about four hours after his dinner,\\nand a supper late.\\nI told him to take only three meals a\\nday, at 8:30, 1 and 6:30. He was never\\nto eat as much as he could; he was to\\ntake no tea nor stimulants of any kind,\\nbut to drink for breakfast, milk with\\nboiling water, take only a very light meal\\nin the middle of the day, of beef or mut-\\nton, vegetables (excluding potatoes), and\\nsome milk pudding; a similar meal was to", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 Treatment of Indigestion\\nbe taken at 6:30, and nothing after or\\nbetween. For breakfast I allowed him\\nbacon with stale bread, toast or biscuit.\\nAfter the last meal he was not to study,\\nbut to read light things, and take a two\\nmiles walk before going to bed.\\nThen I cut down his sleeping hours.\\nHe had been sleeping too much, from\\nabout 10:30 to 7:30. I ordered him to\\nbe in bed at 10:45, and to rise at 6:45,\\ntake a cold sponge bath and work before\\nbreakfast.\\nUnder this regimen he made consider-\\nable improvement, but the chief features\\nof his indigestion remained unchanged.\\nNux vom. gave him a great deal of help,\\nand Nux moschata did something towards\\nrelieving the drowsiness. Acid. phos. i x\\nfive drops in water for a beverage, to be\\ndrunk at lunch and dinner, also proved\\nhelpful. Calc. c. and Puis, relieved the\\nacidity, and finally ISiatrum muriaticum\\ncompletedthe cure, relieving constipation", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 105\\nas well as the other remaining symptoms\\nof indigestion.\\nHe was altogether under treatment\\nabout 10 months. At the end of this\\ntime he was able to work many hours a\\nday without feeling any drowsiness. He\\ncould eat eggs, rice and other articles\\nwithout inconvenience; and he was able\\nto make a good appearance in a scholar-\\nship examination.\\nI have found Nat. mur. of im-\\nmense service in similar cases.\\nChina, Ignatia, Platina, Oxalic\\nacid, and Sulphur have also helped\\nmuch.\\n12. Indigestion and Chlorosis.\\nAnaemia, green-sickness, or\\nchlorosis is attended with indiges-\\ntion as one of its main symptoms.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "io6 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nCask XV. Indigestion of Chlorosis\\nCured by Petroleum.\\nNot long ago I was asked to seethe maid\\nof a patient of mine. She was pale and\\nbloodless to an intense degree, had no\\nappetite, loathed meat, and could hardly\\nbe persuaded to swallow solid food of any\\nkind. It gave her pain and made her sick.\\nShe had great breathlessness on exertion,\\nespecially on going upstairs, of which she\\nhad much to do in the course of the day.\\nI put her on milk diet, and allowed her\\nnothing else. At first she was only able\\nto take this diluted with boiling water.\\nThis effected some improvement. I then\\ngave her as a medicine Petroleum, and the\\nbenefit was soon manifest. The sickness\\nleft her she was able to take other food\\nbesides milk, and with appetite; her colour\\ncame back, and the catamenia, which had\\ncompletely stopped, returned. She was\\nable to do her work with much less diffi-", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 107\\nculty, for she did not give up for a single\\nday.\\nHere is a similar case:\\nCask XVI. Dyspepsia of Anemia\\nsimulating Ulceration of the\\nStomach Cured by Argent, nit.\\nAlice C, 15, consulted me at the\\nHomoeopathic Hospital. She complained\\nof severe pain after eating. It had been\\nworse the last three weeks. She had had\\nthe same pain the previous winter. The\\npain was in the pit of the stomach, which\\nwas very tender. It came on an hour\\nafter food. She grew sick, but did not\\nvomit. She was thirsty and had no ap-\\npetite. The tongue was clean; bowels\\nregular. She had had diarrhoea.\\nThe pulse was frequent; she was very\\nbreathless; was pale, and had all the\\nsymptoms of anaemia.\\nI gave her Argentum nitricum thrice\\ndaily, and all the indigestion symptoms", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "io8 Treatment of Indigestion,\\ndisappeared. She told me that when she\\nhad missed taking the medicine at proper\\ntimes, she had had return of the pain.\\nIn this case there was more pain and\\nless sickness and absence of appetite than\\nin the one cured by Petroleum. Also the\\nanaemia was less intense.\\n13. Drug Dyspepsia.\\nWhen dyspepsia is the result of\\nfrequent drugging, the first thing to\\ndo is to stop everything in the shape\\nof drugs, and put the patient on\\nstrict rules of diet. He should not\\nbe closely restricted to articles of\\ndiet, but should be very particular\\nabout the time of feeding, giving\\nthe stomach proper intervals of rest.\\nHe must beware of taking too\\nlittle food. Dyspeptics of this kind\\nare very apt to leave off by degrees", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 109\\none article of diet after another\\nwhich they have found disagrees\\nwith them (and everything dis-\\nagrees), till they have hardly any-\\nthing left that they can eat. They\\nmust be encouraged to be a little\\ndaring, and as everything will give\\nthem pain at first, to eat everything\\nexcept the most indigestible articles.\\nIn this way the stomach will become\\naccustomed much more to proper\\nmeals. When this treatment has\\nbeen pursued for some time, then\\nHomoeopathy will be able to step in\\nand help the patient. In these cases\\nthere is no very definite set of symp-\\ntoms, and therefore the Materia\\nMedica must be consulted to discern\\nwhich drug is likeliest in its effect\\nto the condition of the patient.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "1 10 Treatment of Indigestion,\\n14. Miscellaneous Kinds.\\nAmong the unclassed kinds of\\ndyspepsia I will mention next tlie\\ncase of a young lady who was never\\nwellin London and never ill out of it.\\nCase XVII. London Dyspepsia\\nAbies nigra.\\nThis patient had been under me some\\nyears before for a sharp attack of inflam-\\nmation of the bowels, recovery from\\nwhich was greatly retarded by an arseni-\\ncal w T all paper with which her bed-room\\nwas papered.\\nNow, whenever she is in London she\\nhas violent attacks of indigestion, and also\\nhas constipation. The pain she suffers is\\nin the pit of the stomach, and right side.\\nIt is of a cramping, tearing nature, and is\\nmuch worse w T hen the bowels are relieved.\\nShe has great chilliness. She cannot eat", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases, in\\nmeat or any solid food, and is obliged to\\nrestrict herself to a diet of milk with boil-\\ning water (in place of tea or coffee), reva-\\nlenta, figs stewed in milk, and biscuits in\\nplace of bread. I found some medicines\\nhelp her a little, especially Abies nigra,\\nwhich relieved the pain, the chilliness, and\\nthe constipation, and seemed at one time\\nas if it w 7 as going to cure her. But the\\nconstipation returned, though not the\\ndyspeptic symptoms in their old intensity.\\nHowever, nothing cured her till she went\\ninto the country, and within a week of\\nher leaving she was able to eat anything\\nshe liked, and the bowels gave no trouble\\nat all.\\nI have known the reverse of this hap-\\npen people who are healthy in London\\nand yet suffer all kinds of discomfort\\nwhen living at home in the midst of a\\npine-forest.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "ii2 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nCase XVIII. Dyspepsia of Six\\nYears Standing Cured by Abies.\\nA barrister consulted me in the autumn\\nof 1886 about an indigestion from which\\nhe had suffered for six years. He was\\ntemperate, and there was no clear cause\\nfor his trouble. His symptoms w 7 ere op-\\npression, feeling as if something stuck in\\nthe pit of his stomach, flatulence, ten-\\ndency to constipation, depression, great\\nchilliness, difficulty in concentrating his\\nthoughts; he felt worse when he ate a good\\ndeal. His pulse was 84, soft. Before his\\nillness came on he had had exceedingly\\ngood health. The symptoms all pointed to\\none medicine, Abies nigra. I gave this,\\nand the one prescription practically cured\\nhim. When he returned, though his\\nsymptoms had not all gone, he was prac-\\ntically a different creature. The pain at\\nthe stomach pit had almost disappeared.\\nHe was no longer chilly. He was able to", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 113\\nwork better. His bowels were open. I re-\\npeated his medicine, and that completed\\nthe cure.\\n15. Constitutional Indigestion.\\nWhen indigestion is one of the\\nsymptoms of amorbid constitutional\\nstate whether gout or rheumatism\\nor one of those designated by Hah-\\nnemann^?/^ and ^6tfz the treat-\\nment will have to be adapted to the\\nconstitution, and not directed to the\\nstomach alone or chiefly, as when\\nthat organ is primarily at fault.\\nThe remedies most useful in\\ndyspepsia of gout are, Sulphur,\\nCarbo vegetabilis, and Lycopodium.\\nPatients who have loss of appetite\\nevery spring and autumn, and find\\nthey cannot digest eggs as they\\ncan at other times, who suffer from", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "ii4 Treatment of Indigestion,\\ndrowsiness, heaviness on waking,\\nunpleasant taste in the mouth, and\\npossibly constipation, will be\\ngreatly benefited by a few doses of\\nSulphur. Others who have flatu-\\nlence with pains in the chest, are\\nchilly, and yet desire air bowels\\nopen or loose, require Car bo veg.\\nLycopodium is suited for those who\\nhave flatulence in the bowels, with\\nconstipation, and urine giving a\\nred deposit.\\nI will now relate two cases in\\npoint.\\nCask XIX.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Chronic Constitution-\\nal Cask with Dilatkd Stomach\\nRkcurrknt Fistula, Curkd with\\nSulphur.\\nA ear or two back an officer in the\\narmy, who had seen a good deal of service\\nabroad, came to consult me about his\\ndigestion. He was 45 years of age, and", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 115\\nthough a man of large frame, was wasted\\nto a degree. He brought with him a\\nphotograph taken before the illness\\ncommenced, and it was difficult to recog-\\nnize any resemblance between it and the\\npatient in his then condition.\\nHis history in brief was as follows\\nFor ten years he had had indigestion\\nwith constipation and piles. He had lost\\nmuch flesh, especially in the last year.\\nIn India he had had fever and had taken\\nmuch quinine. Lately he had taken\\nmuch quack medicine, principally for\\nopening the bowels.\\nSeventeen years before I saw him he\\nhad had a boil form near the anus, and\\never since then after great exertion he had\\nhad a recurrence of anal abscess and fis-\\ntula. The last time w T as eight months be-\\nfore. It bled much, but had never formed\\nagain, and since that time his indigestion\\nhad been worse. He had been a great\\nsmoker, but for ten months had not\\nsmoked at all.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "n6 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nWhen he came to me he was having\\nattacks every week of violent vomiting.\\nIn two minutes he would vomit as much\\nas a gallon of fluid, sour or sweet. The\\nleast exertion caused him to vomit. There\\nwas pain and great thirst in the stomach,\\nbut not severe. The stomach I found to\\nbe considerably dilated, the spleen some-\\nwhat enlarged, and there were some en-\\nlarged glands in the groin.\\nThe tongue was dirty often there was\\na bad taste, and the mouth was clammy\\nand sticky in the morning. Up till ten\\nyears before, the bowels had been regular,\\nbut since then has had constipation, which\\nhe has taken purgatives to relieve. The\\npiles were not painful, but bled, and at\\ntimes came down. He had cramp in the\\ncalves, and cold, dry feet. Sleep was rest-\\nless. He took long to go off, and waked\\nearly in the morning. He was very\\nirritable and wished to be left alone.\\nI gave him Sulphur 30 three times a", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 117\\nday, and told him to take no purgatives,\\nbut to use eneinata if necessary.\\nIn a month he reported himself very\\nmuch better, and it was plain to see that\\nhe was quite a different man He had\\nhad much fewer attacks, and those that\\ncame were less severe. He had been able\\nto eat meat again without discomfort,\\nthough he had been subsisting on porridge\\nand gruel chiefly before. The excessive\\nthirst had gone, and though the constipa-\\ntion remained, the piles were very much\\nbetter. The urine, which had been thick\\nand offensive, was now normal. Sleeps bet-\\nter, though he still wakes at 4 a.m. Sul-\\nphur 30 twice a day, and Nux v. at bed-\\ntime.\\nIn another month still further improve-\\nment was apparent. He had filled out\\nto such an extent that he did not at all\\nbelie his photograph. He complained\\nchiefly of his appetite being too good,\\nbeing most hungry in the afternoons.\\nAt times the thirst returned, and he had", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "1 1 8 Treatment of Indigestion\\nflatulence sometimes. There was still a\\ntendency to early waking.\\nLycopodium was now given, and that\\ncompleted the cure.\\nNow this was a decidedly constitutional\\ncase. The indigestion was only one mani-\\nfestation of his ailment, and this became\\nworse when the fistula healed. The fistula\\nand the indigestion were not two com-\\nplaints but one; and only deeply acting\\nconstitutional remedies, homoeopathically\\nrelated to all affected parts of the organ-\\nism could have cured the patient. Severe\\nmeasures, such as surgical treatment of\\nthe piles, or acids or alkalies to correct the\\nstate of the stomach, though sanctified\\nby the approval of the highest scientific\\nauthority in the old school, is the merest\\ncobbling work, and no true cure at all.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 119\\nCask XX. A Chronic Cask arising\\nFROM AN IMPROPKRI.YTREATKD SKIN\\nAffection. Sulphur \\\\Nux moschata.\\nThis patient was a clerk in the city in\\nthe early twenties, and he complained of\\nhaving had indigestion twelve months. It\\ncame on suddenly one day after taking\\ntea, and he could not account for it in any\\nway. His principal symptom was that his\\nfood lay like a weight at the umbilical\\nregion. Sour eructations, and rising into\\nthe throat of bits of the last food taken.\\nBad taste in the mouth at times; good\\nappetite; takes rather much salt. Thirsty\\nafter dinner, which he takes in the even-\\ning, and which is the meal which gives\\nmost trouble. Spirits low; headache occa-\\nsionally. Sleepy after meals. Prefers cold\\nweather, but always feels cold and is\\nsensitive to draughts. Is a total abstainer\\nand a non-smoker.\\nSulph. 30 ter die.\\nA fortnight later he reported himself as", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "1 20 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nmuch better, and for several weeks under\\nPuis., Lye, and Sulph. the improvement\\nwent on with fluctuations.\\nOne day he mentioned, among other\\nsymptoms, that his saliva was very thick,\\nlike cotton.\\nR Nux mosck. 30 ter die for a week, to be\\nfollowed with Salph. 30 for the next week.\\nWhilst taking the Nux moschata the\\nsymptoms of indigestion vanished; but, to\\nquote his own words, singularly enough,\\nthe same eruption appeared as existed\\nbefore I had the indigestion. The Sulph.\\nrather sent matters back this time, so I\\ngave Nux mosck. again.\\nI now for the first time obtained the\\nhistory of the eruption.\\nIt w T as one of acne, which had been\\n1 cured by local applications. In other\\nwords, the complaint had been driven\\nfrom his skin to his internal organs.\\nHe was subject to eruptions w^hen\\nyoung. Shaving w^as now difficult, the\\nskin being so tender. Carbo an put that", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "with Illustrative Cases. 121\\nright. The Nux vioschata made him less\\nchilly, and he did not require much medi-\\ncine after these had done their work.\\nRheumatic dyspepsia will find its\\nspecifics in Bryonia, Kalibichromi-\\ncum (especially where rheumatic\\npains and dyspeptic symptoms\\nalternate), or Sulphur, Thepsoric\\nindividual will require very careful\\ntreating. The medicine of the\\nwidest range in the treatment of\\nthese cases is Sulphur, but his\\nsymptoms will require close stud}\\nand accurate comparison with the\\nsymptoms of the drugs in order to\\nfind the drug that most closely\\ncorresponds. For the hydrogenoid\\nor sycotic constitution, in which the\\npatient suffers intermittent^ from\\nindigestion, with other symptoms,\\n9", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 Treatment of Indigestion,\\nworse on every change of the\\nweather, and especially when the\\nair is damp and cold, Arsen., Nux,\\nIpec, and Natrum mur. will be\\nfound most useful according to the\\nindications given in the Materia\\nMedica.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "Wzfm-\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nDIET IN DYSPEPSIA.\\nTT is just as easy to give too little\\nfood to dyspeptics as too much.\\nWhen a stomach has once become\\nwhimsical, its whims will have to\\nbe disregarded in the process of\\nbreaking it into more wholesome\\nhabits. Of course, this will mean\\na certain amount of suffering at\\nfirst, but the good results of it will\\nsoon be apparent.\\nWhen there is ulceration of the\\nstomach present, it will be neces-\\nsary to give only liquid food, and\\nof all liquid foods in these states,\\nkoumiss is the best.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 Diet in Dyspepsia.\\nIn acute attacks of indigestion\\nthe best of all remedies is to go\\nwithout any food at all until the\\nstomach has had time to recover\\nitself.\\nIn the chronic cases where the\\nvitality is low, and the general tone\\nof health not robust, great care\\nwill be required in bringing the\\npatient back to ordinary diet. Cold\\nfoods must be particularly avoided.\\nBread only sparingly used. Bread\\nis not nearly so digestible an article\\nas most people imagine, and dys-\\npeptics should never eat bread and\\nbutter, or hot buttered toast. Dry\\ntoast is all they should indulge in.\\nWhen toast is not tolerated, rusks\\nor biscuits may take its place.\\nPlain water-biscuits are the best", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "Diet in Dyspepsia. 125\\nsuch as Huntly Palmer s Break-\\nfast biscuits, and Captain s bis-\\ncuits; Cracknell s; and Spiking s\\n(Dover Street, Piccadilly) Oval\\nCheese biscuits, and Lunch bis-\\ncuits. For breakfast there is one\\ncold article of diet dyspeptics may\\ntake, and that is the fat of very\\ngood cold boiled bacon. The}^ may\\nhave this with toast.\\nTea is bad for the digestion, and\\nthe habit of drinking tea in the after-\\nnoon is an exceedingly objection-\\nable one. It breaks up the proper\\ninterval between lunch and dinner,\\nand gives the tea its best possible\\nchance of working its evil effects\\non the stomach. Coffee is not so\\ninjurious to the digestion as tea.\\nIt rather assists the digestion of", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 Diet in Dyspepsia.\\nfats which tea hinders. Though\\ncoffee has more tendency to cause\\nheadache, and with some persons\\nflatulence and constipation, with\\nothers it assists the action of the\\nbowels. Tea should never be taken\\nwithout milk or cream, and it should\\nnever be strong, or taken after it has\\nbeen made more than a few minutes.\\nThe teas of China are less in-\\njurious than those of India and\\nCeylon. Green teas are especially\\npoisonous, and should never be\\ntaken under any circumstances.\\nCocoa possesses more of the\\nnutrient and sustaining properties,\\nand is less of a pure stimulant than\\neither tea or coffee. Some object\\nto it on that account, as they say\\nthey want a drink rather than a", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "Diet in Dyspepsia. 127\\nfood. This difficulty may be\\navoided by using some of the\\nlighter forms of cocoa, as Epps\\nCocoaine, an extract made from\\nthe nibs or the nibs themselves,\\nor the shells may be used for\\nmaking the beverage.\\nWhen meat cannot be taken,\\nbeef-tea must be substituted. Mut-\\nton is more digestible than beef,\\nbecause in beef the fat is more\\nintermixed with the fibre of the\\nmeat, and the fat is more difficult\\nto digest, and the fibre is harder.\\nIn cases where there is manifest\\nulceration of the stomach, koumiss\\nis the best food. It may be given\\nalone every hour or every two\\nhours, until the pain and vomiting\\nhave ceased and other food can be", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 Diet in Dyspepsia.\\ntaken. When koumiss is not ob-\\ntainable, milk and lime-water, or\\nmilk and soda-water may be sub-\\nstituted.\\nWhen dyspepsia is constitutional\\nthe particular constitution must\\nbe studied.\\nGouty patients should avoid all\\nrich or highly-spiced foods, and eat\\nlittle butter and milk except with\\ntea or coffee. These should be\\ntaken not strong, and the tea only\\nwhen freshly made. Meat should\\nbe taken once a day, never cold,\\nand never cooked a second time.\\nThe less flatulent kinds of vegeta-\\nbles are good, as French beans,\\nspinach, young peas, also stewed\\ncelery. Potatoes should be avoided,\\nand cabbage. Malt liquors, wines,", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Diet in Dyspepsia. 129\\nand spirits should be avoided.\\nWater is the best drink at meals\\nSalntaris water or toast water may\\nbe substituted. Hard water should\\nbe carefully avoided. Gouty pa-\\ntients should drink freely of liquids.\\nThose who have a tendency to\\nrheumatism should observe most of\\nthe rules indicated for the gouty.\\nExcess of meat and milk are not\\ngood. Oatmeal porridge should be\\ntaken at breakfast; at lunch or\\ndinner, soup, meat from the joint,\\nwith vegetables, plain rice or other\\nfarinaceous pudding without eggs,\\nand no fruit. Toast-water should\\nbe the drink with the meals. Fresh-\\nwater fish, and watery fruits and\\nvegetables, must be avoided.\\nFor the psoric no special rules", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 Diet in Dyspepsia.\\ncan be laid down. They innst be\\ndieted according to their symp-\\ntoms. The chilly sycotic patients\\nmnst avoid all cold foods and\\nwatery foods, as the rheumatic.\\nThey may drink hot water, but\\nnever cold water. It will often be\\nfound beneficial to the circulation\\nto sponge them every morning all\\nover with spirit of wine before\\ndressing. Fruit, milk, melons,\\nmushrooms, hard-boiled eggs must\\nbe avoided.\\nOysters can sometimes be taken\\nwhen nothing else can, and they\\ncontain a considerable amount of\\nnourishment. They may be taken\\nraw or cooked as desired.\\nPepsine and all the artificial di-\\ngestives I do not like, except for\\nshort periods. The stomach is", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Diet i?i Dyspepsia. 131\\nready enough to accommodate itself\\nto inaction and when it finds the\\nfood put into it already pepton-\\nised, it will not trouble itself to se-\\ncrete any pepsine itself. Hence it\\nfalls into bad habits, and finally the\\nartificial pepsine ceases to suit the\\npatient, whose stomach is then\\nreally weaker than before the pep-\\nsine was given.\\nAn exception must be made in\\nfavour of a preparation I have found\\nvery useful, namely, Bullock? s Acid\\nGlycerine of Pepsine, a teaspoonful\\nbeing mixed in half a tumbler of\\nhot water, and drunk at meals as a\\nbeverage. This is very pleasant to\\ntake, as well as efficient. It must\\nnot, however, be used continu-\\nously.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 Diet in Dyspepsia.\\nVitalia contains nourishment in\\nthe most concentrated form. It is\\nvaluable as a restorative and stimu-\\nlant as well as a nutrient.\\nBovinine is another preparation\\nof beef of great value. It is in a\\nform to be absorbed almost imme-\\ndiately without digestive effort.\\nBrand s beef jelly is the next\\nbest thing to good home-made beef-\\ntea.\\nLiebigh beef -tea is more of a\\nstimulant than a nutrient. But if\\ntaken with biscuit it is nourishing.\\nAmong Milk preparations Hor-\\nlic s Malted Milk is one of the\\nmost valuable. It is in dry pow-\\ndered form, and can be mixed with\\neither hot or cold water, requiring\\nno cooking.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "Diet in Dyspepsia. 133\\nThe various invalid foods are\\nalmost all good. Neave s, Ridge s\\nand Du Barry s Revalenta (which\\nconsists chiefly of lentil flour, and\\nmay be replaced by the lentil flour\\nitself) have obtained well-deserved\\nreputations.\\nIn dieting dyspestics the most\\nimportant thing is the times of\\neating next in importance is the\\nquantity they take, most dj^speptics\\ntaking either too much or too little;\\nand last, and less important than\\neither of these two, is the regula-\\ntion of the quality.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nMATERIA MEDICA.\\nTHERE is another way of classi-\\nfying the different kinds of\\ndyspepsia besides the one I have\\nadopted above that is, by taking\\nthe leading feature of each case.\\nThere are thus\u00e2\u0080\u0094 flatulent dyspepsia,\\npainful dyspepsia, acid dyspepsia,\\nand many others. A division of\\nthis kind would cut through the\\nclassification I have already given,\\nas examples of all these could be\\ntaken from any one of the kinds I\\nhave described. I have, therefore,\\ndecided to add this chapter of", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Materia Medica. 135\\nMateria Medica, giving under each\\ndrug the particular symptoms\\nwhich indicate its use in indiges-\\ntion. By looking through the list of\\ndrugs I have given, the various dys-\\npepsias flatulent, acid, and the rest\\nwill find their counterparts de-\\nscribed. The medicines are ar-\\nranged in alphabetical order, and\\nonly those characteristic S3^mptoms\\nwhich indicate the medicines in\\ncases of dyspepsia are given.\\nDose, Unless otherwise stated,\\nthe dose of each medicine named\\nshould be one drop in water or on\\na small piece of sugar, or two\\npilules, of the 3d attenuation. It\\nshould be taken about an hour or\\nhalf an hour before each meal.\\nAbies nigra, Loss of appetite", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 Materia Medica.\\nin the morning, but great craving\\nfor food at noon and night. Severe\\npain in the stomach after eating;\\nsensation as if an undigested hard\\nboiled egg were there.\\nActcza racemosa (also called\\nCimicifuga racemosa). Great de-\\npression of spirits and feeling as\\nif under a cloud. Severe head-\\nache, with aching in eyeballs. Un-\\npleasant taste in mouth, unpleasant\\nbreath, nausea, sinking faintness\\nat pit of stomach, vomiting. Tea\\ndyspepsia.\\nAntimonium crudum. Milky\\nwhite tongue, or thickly coated\\ntongue; eructations of wind, and\\nfluid tasting of the food taken.\\nAntimonium tartaricum. Milky\\nwhite tongue; nausea; vomiting and", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "Materia Medica. 137\\nprostration tremulousness. Use-\\nful in the dyspepsia of drunkards.\\nArgentum nitricum. Flatulent\\ndyspepsia the flatulence coming\\naway easily and in great quantity.\\nGreat pain and tenderness at the\\nstomach-pit, the pain being worse\\nafter any food. Palpitation and\\nshort breath anaemia. This medi-\\ncine is especially useful in anaemic\\ngirls, and also for flatulent dys-\\npepsia resulting from eating cold\\nfood. Threatened ulceration of the\\nstomach.\\nArsenicum. Irritable state of\\ndigestive mucous membrane. (Red\\ntongue, or red with thin, white\\nsilvery coat) thirst burning pain\\nat the stomach faintness nausea,\\nand vomiting. The bowels are\\n10", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 Materia Medica.\\ngenerally loose there is a low\\nfeverish state wasting anxiety\\nrestlessness.\\nThis medicine is useful in ulcera-\\ntion of the stomach, and in all cases\\nof irritative dyspepsia with great\\nvital exhaustion and depression.\\nBaptisia. When there is great\\ndulness and heaviness approaching\\nthe typhoid type, tongue foul, no\\nappetite, often vomiting and diar-\\nrhoea. The head is heavy, and the\\nface has a heavy expression. This\\nmedicine is very useful in indiges-\\ntion after overloading the stomach,\\nand in those acute attacks of in-\\ndigestion with fever which used to\\nbe called gastric fever or gastric\\nattacks.\\nBryonia. Feeling as of a stone", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Materia Medica. 139\\nat the pit of the stomach sharp pain\\ngoing through from this region\\nto the back pain between the\\nshoulders or under one shoulder-\\nblade pain across the forehead\\nbilious vomiting white tongue\\nconstipation stools large and light-\\ncoloured in rheumatic patients.\\nBryonia is useful in many kinds\\nof dyspepsia. An example has\\nbeen given of its efficacy in the\\ncase of an arsenical dyspepsia. But\\nits range is very wide, and any\\ncase presenting two or three of the\\nabove symptoms will be cured by\\nthe remedy.\\nCalcarea carbonica 6. Acid dys-\\npepsia everything turning to acid\\nsour risings and eructations heart-\\nburn waterbrash milk disagrees", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 Materia Medica.\\noffensive white stools useful in\\nalmost all cases where acidity is the\\nleading feature. It is often of\\nremarkable service in those cases\\nwhere dyspepsia is premonitory of\\nconsumption of the lungs.\\nCarbo veg. 6. Flatulent dys-\\npepsia great belching of wind\\ncutting pains in the chest acidity\\nbowels regular or loose gouty dys-\\npepsia.\\nCarbo veg. is perhaps the most\\nuseful of all medicines in flatulent\\ndyspepsia. The flatulence is chiefly\\nin the stomach and passing away\\nupwards. It is contrasted with\\nLycopodium, which has abdominal\\nflatulence with constipation.\\nCarbolic acid. Acute dyspepsia;\\ngreat flatulence, passing upwards", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Materia Medica. 141\\npains in the chest and stomach after\\nall food nausea vomiting depres-\\nsion. There is usually a good deal\\nof nervousness connected with the\\ncases which call for Carbolic acid.\\nIt is good for nervous dyspepsia,\\ni.e., dyspepsia where nervous symp-\\ntoms predominate.\\nChamomilla. Fretfulness and\\nirritability are the leading indica-\\ntions for this remedy in whatever\\ndisease calls for it. It is especially\\ncalled for in the dyspepsia of teeth-\\ning children. The special dyspeptic\\nsymptoms are: Fulness of upper\\nabdomen belching of wind press-\\nure at the stomach as from a stone\\nburning at the stomach irritable\\ngastralgia; windy colic; green,\\nwatery or mucous diarrhoea", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 Materia Medica.\\nbiliousness. Bitter taste in the\\nmouth in the morning. Desire for\\nacids, and thirst.\\nChina. Dyspepsia after ex-\\nhausting diseases or vicious habits;\\ndyspepsia of nervous debility loss\\nof appetite loathing of food shud-\\ndering and chilliness heartburn\\npressure at the stomach; nausea\\nvomiting pain in the liver light\\nstools. When given in the tincture\\nit lessens the craving for alcohol.\\nHydrastis Canadensis, Gone-\\nness or sinking sensation after\\nmeals yellow slimy tongue sour\\nor putrid eructations alternate\\ndiarrhoea and constipation.\\nIgnatia. Indigestion with nerv-\\nous symptoms sinking at the pit of\\nthe stomach sensation of a lump", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "Materia Medica. 143\\nin the throat. When indigestion is\\nbrought on or aggravated by worry.\\nAggravation by tobacco smoke.\\nStomach symptoms generally re-\\nlieved by eating. Hysterical symp-\\ntoms with indigestion.\\nIodine. Dyspepsia with great\\nwasting. The appetite may be\\nravenons or absent. In dyspepsia\\nfrom nervous causes, where there\\nis complete failure of appetite, if\\nIodine is given in 3 s strength for\\nhalf to a quarter of an hour before\\nmeal-times, it will often enable the\\npatient to eat.\\nIpecacuanha. Sick dyspepsia\\nconstant nausea accumulation of\\nsaliva in the mouth loss of appe-\\ntite sensation as if the stomach\\nhung down relaxed.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144 Materia Medica.\\nKali bichromicum. Indigestion\\nalternating with rheumatic symp-\\ntoms vomiting gastritis chronic\\ncatarrh of the stomach tongue\\ncoated yellow, red beneath weight\\nrather than pain after food dys-\\npepsia of beer drinkers.\\nLycopodium 6. Flatulent disten-\\nsion of the bowels flatulence pass-\\ning downwards rumbling cannot\\nbear the pressure of the clothes\\nwaterbrash tongue coated white\\nconstipation urine depositing a\\nsediment sleepiness after dinner\\nin gouty patients.\\nMercurius solubilis 6. Pale\\nflabby tongue depraved taste\\nfoul breath light stools depres-\\nsion of spirits.\\nNatrum muriaticum 6. Bitter", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Materia Medica. 145\\ntaste in the month waterbrash\\nheartburn chilliness palpitation\\nafter food anaemia constipation\\nuseful in anaemic girls also in\\nyouths who have indulged in evil\\nhabits.\\nNux vomica, From indigesti-\\nble food from beer, wine, or spirits\\nfrom tobacco from excesses of all\\nkinds. Suited to spare, swarthy\\npersons of irascible temperament\\ntongue brown at the back cramp-\\ning or spasmodic pains flatulence\\nvomiting constipation.\\nPetroleum. Constant sickness,\\nand loathing of all food bilious\\nvomiting breathlessness and\\nbloodlessness green sickness.\\nPlumbum 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cramping contract-\\ning pains in body and limbs, with\\n11", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 Materia Medico,\\nindigestion. Obstinate constipa-\\ntion with colic. Sensation of a\\nball rising up from the stomach\\ninto the throat.\\nPulsatilla. From fat food\\nmucous derangement thickly\\ncoated, moist, white tongue\\nnausea with little vomiting heart-\\nburn absence of much pain\\nfeeling of distension clothes have\\nto be loosened bowels loose or\\nregular suited to persons inclined\\nto be stout, fair, and of a mild\\ndisposition.\\nSulphur.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -In chronic cases gen-\\nerally, where dyspepsia has fol-\\nlowed the disappearance of a skin\\neruption pressure and heaviness\\nin the stomach after eating a little,\\nand sour or empty eructations", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Materia Medica. 147\\nsinking sensation about 11 A.\\nM. bitter taste in the mouth\\ntongue coated white griping about\\nthe navel constipation rheumatic\\nand gouty dyspepsia. Sulphur is\\ncomplementary to Nux vomica,\\nthey often do well in alternation.", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3536", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2428", "jp2-path": "indigestionitsca00clar_0156.jp2"}}