One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies.
- N. E. Yorke Davis
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![388.] 380. Those who suffer from a weak—or dilated— heart should not take active exercise after a full meal; in fact, no one should take active exercise after a full meal. 381. The commonest symptom of a weak heart is puffiness under the lower eyelids, and breathlessness on slight exertion. 382. Women at ‘ the change of life 5 often suffer from functional disturbance of the heart. This is not dangerous. 383. £ Blue Disease ’ depends on an imperfect con- struction of the heart, but those bom with it seldom reach middle age. 384. Indigestion is the bane of middle age, as it always, or almost always, arises from errors in diet, so the sufferer really deserves but little sympathy. 385. Socrates says, ‘ Beware of such food as per- suades a man to eat though he be not hungry, and those liquors that will prevail with a man to drink them though he be not thirsty.’ This advice, though written two thousand years ago, applies equally well to-day. 386. The most frequent cause of indigestion is the use of food in too large quantity, or of improper kind, or the imperfect mastication of it, from care- lessness, or the pain of bad teeth, or loss of teeth. (See Appendix, 13.) 387. Five or six hours should intervene between meals, and this rule may not be broken with impunity for any length of time. 388. The most fruitful sources of indigestion are want of bodily exercise, excessive labour, undue intellectual exertion, mental anxiety, general debility, immoderate smoking and drinking.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24874577_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
