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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 585 of 653"empty stomach" is hurtful, and may give rise to frequent yawning, cardialgia, headache, a disagreeable and audible rumbling inthe bowels, weakness of the extremities and even attacks resemblisyncope ; on the other hand, overloading the stomach is frequentlattended with oppression of this organ, flatulence, nausea or evevomiting and diarrhoea, by which conditions the patients areweakened and the anpemia is made worse.If the digestion is prostrated, our main object must be to restorthis important function as speedily as possible to its normal stafor without it no restoration of tissue, and hence no amelioratiothe blood can be thought of. The management of the digestiveapparatus will be indicated when we give the medicinal treatment.For the present, it may suffice to state that the sick stomach muDeficiency or rather Paleness of the Blood. 697not be loaded with heavy nourishment ; the least excess causes thpatient serious distress and increases the gastric disorder.As long as the appetite is wanting, the patient had better eatnothing but weak soups ; under certain circumstances he may beallowed a dish of milk, or some farinaceous preparation or stewedfruit. Beer or wine, whether pure or diluted, can only be allowedif not counter-indicated by any of the above-mentioned circumstances. !K the appetite improves, more nourishing soups, light whitemeat, soft-boiled eggs and a light farinaceous diet may be alloweas the digestion continues to improve, beef, venison and a strengening diet may be resorted to.Cooling things, such as: ice, lemonade, orangeade, raspberryjuice, soda-w&ter with wine or syrups, are only permitted by us,if the patients do not cough, are not troubled with diarrhoea orcardialgia, and are not inclined to abdominal pains.We give these dietetic rules in detail for the reason that we havoften seen practitioners urge upon ansemic patients the most substantial diet without regard to their digestive capacities. Beingunable, for want of appetite, to comply with the demands of theirphysicians, the poor patients, instead of gaining in health andstrength, continued to fail and were finally obliged to seek helpelsewhere.Exercise and rest are of great importance to the process of sanguification. It is just as important to regulate the amount of excise with reference to the existing amount of bodily strength, asis important to measure the amount of supply proportionally tothe strength of the digestive powers.As a rule, aneemic patients have pale and flabby muscles deprivedof their normal energy, elasticity and powers of perseverence. Altheir muscles and muscular bodies exhibit a certain degree of funtional debility ; the muscles of the trunk and extremities betraythis weakness by a feeling of languor and lassitude ; those of ththorax by shortness of breath, those of the heart by an acceleratbeating of this organ, those of the stomach by weakness of digeshttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt