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DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF DIGESTION. 381
theater ; oyster supper ; brandy and cigars ; bed at mid
night, with a feverish excitement made up
of beef,
brandy, oysters, coffee, and tobacco, to ama
prompting
this two or
tive indulgence and more exhaustion. Try
three years, and see if all the resources of nature will
save you from dyspepsia !
Where there is early amative excess, especially of
an unnatural character, it does not need all this. The
less vital force, the more easily is it exhausted. When
a woman's strength is drawn to the uterus, in gestation,
her digestion is apt to be feeble. Few have force
enough for both processes. The harder any person
works, especially in mental labor, the less he should
eat. In a tolerably healthy system, this regulates itself,
for much excitement of any kind takes away the appe
tite. Merchants, ministers, lawyers, artists, and vast
numbers of women, exhausted by dress, dissipation,
amativeness, maternity, and unhappy domestic relations,
have dyspepsia.
The effects of this disease, besides those mentioned
as symptoms, are numerous and distressing.
There is
scarcely any disease that is not produced by it, or
greatly aggravated, Skin diseases of all kinds, ulcers,
cough, headache, asthma, functional disease of the
heart, uterine diseases, rheumatism and gout, and a
host, of affections,
are the results of this central cause.
A depravation of the blood can not fail to affect every
organ, every secretion, every process, every function
of the body. Whatever the disease, if we find it com
plicated with dyspepsia, that must be cured, and gene
rally this is sufficient. Cure the dyspepsia,
cure all that depends upon it.
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