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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ttack oferuption, or irrita-tion, or inflamma-tion. In this formof dyspepsia theinvalid experiencespain, soreness,gnawing, burning,or other inflamma-tory symptoms ;with an empty feel-;ng, sourness, wind,trembling, nausea,etc., at the stomach.Not all of thesesymptoms in anyone case, but some nerves of the stomach, one or more Ot The above figure shows how extensively the stomach and diges-them. When the tive apparatus is permeated with nerves. The liver (1) is dyspepsia proceeds turned up to cxhibit the anterior surface of the stoma<*; also the gall bladder (2). The organic nerves are marked 3,from nervous de- ^ while the pyloric extremity of the stomach and the con-rangements, the tracted portion of the pylorus are indicated by the figures 4symptoms are, usu- aml 5; 7 7 7 mark thc omentum- ally palpitation of the heart; trembling at the pit of the stomach; aweak or all-gone feeling at the stomach ; while the body appearsattenuated, and the countenance pale; the sleep disturbed; the
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382 DISEASES OF LIVER, STOMACH, AMD BOWELS. spirits more continually depressed; and the mental and physicalenergies subdued. In either of the foregoing forms of dyspepsia, the food passesthrough more of a rotting than of a digesting process, and thegases emanating from the decomposing mass, cause acidity andflatulency. Then the nutritious substances are so contaminated byproperties calculated to irritate or inflame the blood, that rottenapples would answer about as well for food as sound vegetables andmeats; and they would impart about as much benefit to the system. Epicures; good feeders; or those who are denominated fastlivers; and those who have plenty of flesh on their bones, are themost liable to that form of dyspepsia which is perpetuated by bloodimpurities. Imprudence in eating produces in, and sends forth from,the stomach to the vascular fluids, impurities which in time comehome to roost. They pay a visit to their maternal home, and theiipresence is any thing but agreeable ; f

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