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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    insist has a most pernicious eilect on the delicate hning membrane of the stomach. Indeed, in most cases in which I have been consulted by x^atients who complained of loss of appetite and a general distaste for food, produced (as alleged) by worry and anxiety, I have found that the symp- toms were dependent more on the imbibing of stimulants, taken for the purpose of re- moving the depression of spkits occasioned by that worry and anxiety, than on the mental troubles themselves. It is, however, doubtless true that the stomach greatly sympathises with the brain, therefore it is chiefly necessary for persons who have more than ordinary strain placed upon that organ,—the centre of their nervous system,—to aid its action and to render their intellect as clear as possible by taking care to free their alimentary track from all disorders which tend to impair the brain power, and to cause depression. But when men are harassed and worried in business is just the time it is more than ever necessary for them to keep about. And it is commonly the case that they per-