Medical hints for the hills / by S.O. Bishop.

  • Bishop, S. O.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Medical hints for the hills / by S.O. Bishop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    masticated, it gives the digestive organs double \Voi'k to perform. The stomach it- self may be at fault, from dilatation or from an abnormal quantity of mucus which is poured out, and tenaciously adhering to the food, successfully prevents it coming in con- tact and being acted on by the gastric juice. The biliary secretions are sometimes at fault, the cold having arrested the flow of bile ; so sufficient bile is not secreted to find its way into the duodenum, or small intest- ine, to assist in completing the process of the partially digested food after leaving the stomach. Over-work.—Worrv, anxietv or disturb- ance of the nervous svstem are fertile causes. All mv readers know how sudden emotion «/ will arrest digestion. A lump is felt in the stomach, on hearing some bad news ; a tele- gram arriving directly after a good meal announcing that you are the fortunate win- Causes. Causes.
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