A treatise on the stomach and its trials : showing how a newly-discovered diet ... helps to digest the food more perfectly in the stomach ... / [Eno].
- Eno, J. C.
- Date:
- [between 1800 and 1899?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the stomach and its trials : showing how a newly-discovered diet ... helps to digest the food more perfectly in the stomach ... / [Eno]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![disperse, and witli them vanish, for a while, the Dyspeptic's gloom; he is a slave to the caprices of the weather, and cloud and sunshine vary at will, the scanty measure of his enjoyments. It is curious to mark the effects of Dyspepsia in the coimtenance, motions, and demeanour of the patient. Observe that man, walking by himself, with feeble gait and inelastic step ; pressing his hands on the region of his stomach, stooping in his attitude, and regarding nobody —in all probability he is a Dyspeptic. Cast your eye upon that man in the comer of the room, sitting apart from the rest of the company, sel- dom speaking unless spoken to, and satirical or morose when he does speak—^there is strong reason to conclude he is a Dyspeptic. Look at that slender-built man, with long, lean fingers, slender legs, a coun- tenance between pale and sallow, a slight tinge of yellow in his eyes, a dry skin, and hair moistureless—there can hardly be a doubt but that he suffers from Indigestion. Nothing can be more wayward than a Dyspeptids stomach. It is almost as difficult to please as a spoilt child, or a monarch ruined by in- dulgence. It is faint, without being actually hungry ; and craves the stimulus of food, without feeling the demands of a genuine appetite. And yet all this is caused simply by an imperfect dissolution of the food in the stomach, which may be prevented by the use of a remedy, of which we shall speak by and by. THE IMPOETANCE OF NUTEITION. The Lam]) of Life. Su^jply. Waste. Breathing, loitliout proper Nutriment, the cause of Death. The hest tuay to assist Nature to do her own ivorh without the use of Medicine. Eaw Meat Jelly the most efficient kind of Nutriment, icith least inconvenience from hulk or other quality. ' Keep up the power of nutrition, and the body will resist and eject disease.' Nutrition is nothing more or less than a continued healthy trans- formation of the food in the Stomach, an uninterrupted decay and restoration of the body, the ceaseless operation of supply to waste, of building up and depositing new materials, and removing the old. Nu- trition is the nourishment of the pahulum vita;, the restorer of the vis vital, the power that enables the system to throw off diseased action. Of how great moment, therefore, must be a plan of treatment that re-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21453305_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
