Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the stomach, Hver, and of the digestive apparatus generally. In a measure this may be accounted for by the fact that in the present day many more persons live and travel in tropical climates. Many other causes (among them the adulteration of the food we eat, no doubt) have tended to make our digestion far less strong than that of our forefathers. Then consider what a large number of other more alarming ailments are the out- come of dyspepsia,—otherwise called indi- gestion. What a vast amount of anxiety— nay, of serious troubles—has been occa- sioned by nothing more than an attack of indigestion, or of liver disturbance ! Per- haps the ill temper—which is always associated with imperfect digestion or with a bilious attack,—being more powerfully manifested on one occasion than on others, has led to the most grave results, which would never have come to pass had the first cause—derangement of the stomach, Hver, and their accessories—not arisen. Any person who has ever suffered from severe dyspepsia will scarcely need to have