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?]
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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.

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    [enteeed at stationers' hall.] THE STOMACH AND ITS TEIALS. * A good digestion turneth all to health.'—Wordswoeth. 'What an excellent thing did God bestow on man, when He did give him a good stomach!'—Beaumont. One of the most uncomfortable beings on earth is a Dyspeptic. To most other invalids there is some hope of a change, some prospect of a ter- mination to their complaints, or, at least, some occasional intervals of freedom from affliction. To Fevers there is a speedy close, either in health, or in that final issue which puts an end to all troubles. The Small-pox and Measles come but once; and then Gout allows intervals- Even Consumption, wasting and cureless, does not deprive the patient of hope; but for Dyspepsia, hitherto, there has been little hope; it is generally dark, discouraging, and cheerless in its progress, and affords slight reasonable hope of a termination. It will neither kill the patient nor depart from him. Hitherto, it has been more hopeless than a sen- tence of imprisonment for life, for here there is hope of a pardon. It seems to ask a ' little wine for its infirmities ;' and yet it dreads that the strength produced by wine to-day will be followed by increased debility on the morrow. It takes in food to satisfy a morbid craving ; but shudders while it does so, for the oppression which will inevitably follow. Among all the afflictions of a Dyspeptic, ^ne depressing effects of a ramy, misty, or cloudy day are not the least. On such a day lowness of spirits (what is termed ' the blues'), a disposition to hate the world, and all that is in it, seizes him. He looks upon the dark side of every tiling. He feels unhappy now, and doubts if ever he shall be happy again. The world appears a wretched world, and containing nothing that one should wish for, whether of power, riches, friendship, or fame. But the clouds 1