The Wingham Times, 1885-10-02, Page 61,21i.EL
Dyspepsia.
The great and grievous prevalence of dee
spepsta amok; Anisriettus is beyond question
In part die to their outrageously uziphysie•
logical enistinn of sipping old Neter, and
above al, ie (4 weer, before and diititiri
meals. If the reader ha‘ aot a fumy for
plain seisakiog, he will do well to skip title
artiele, for I mean to speak as Vatoly, as
possiole, and to be as candid es 1 can from
Ant to lad, foi this most urgeot of mesons
it is only by ushers great plainness of speech
that I can hope to do any aervice, and unless
I succeed in thatendeavor, it will be useless
to coney valuable epece in a popular
periodiol
The cold water oracke the enamel off
and caueee teeth to decay. Americo den
lists excel all other dentat eurgeons in Wild-
ing up solid structu ea of gold to replace
the teeth, but that is because the American
people outrun all other people in the celerity
with which they destroy their natural teeth
and it i the old, or iced, water that does
It is the purpose of this little paper to
prove that dyspepsia is an aff ur of the
mouth rather than of the stomach, but I
mean to begin my argument with the atomach, and work back to the metah.
Is it net in one of the earlier volumes of
"Talss from Blackwood' that wonderful
story of the portable stomach is to found ?
In the old coaching day; when hurried
raeala hod to be taken while they "aliened
horses" at the wayside inn, thia humorous
piece of fiction narrates hew certain travel-
lers were provided with stomaohs like bags,
which the guard aollected at the window,
and having had filled with food, returned
to their respective owners. The force of
the story, from the physiologist's point of
view, lies in the feet that it treaters alt that
precedes the placing of a meal tn the stone
ach as unimportant, or at leaa, not strictly
proper to the person who has to perform the
function of "feeding."
This is t le principle upon which the de-
signers of mestiiating machines, and the
prescribers of I °paint and other aids t di.
proced.
Of course it is true that the food 'we elitist'
only about one yard and a half by linear
measurement'ne irer the �rgaaiemwhieh has
to be fed, when it is in the stomach:than
when it is still on the tab e, and so far as
appropriation to, the, needs of theebody is
eoncerned, it is in no way near the fulfill -
meta of its parpose until it has hon actual-
ly absorbed ; nor islt even'thehe letrictly
speaking, 11 the heeler, theme/lite may be
circulating in the blood, until the hungry
tisanes take it np, and make it part an 1 par-
cel of themselves.
The meuth prepares the food for the pro-
cess of diyestion, and= Viet; fuectim really
commences with the teleihg, of the victuels
between the lips and teeth. The atomach is
practically, a warm chamber, into which the
food is received after it bort -medicated
and mixed with the secretion from the salito
ary gla,nds, and if the food is not cut up
small ennagh to t e reaiily dissolved, or it
has not been sof& :lenge, mixed with an ad-
equate cm salty of the flaid whichkhe glands
of the mouth isectefeeitiiill decompose in-
stead of b sing digeste,deMeh the result of
pains, ft ituancy an`d. elyspepaie.
Starting therefore, 1on the atomach, we
find ths.t the dratand chief cense of indiges-
tion is wast of prep tredni al on the part of
the fogi. ad this fault is distiactly,ee
able to the month, erit-eete apparatus for
cnttiag, tearing and kririiibg the irmee an&
ita glsnds which are, and ought to be, like
welt -filled castor; ready to supply the food
with he natu -al ondiments requis ed to ren-
der it wholesome and ready for the stomach
process wherewith, digeation—properly se-
caleed—begins Now let us look into the
subject bef ,re 118 a little more narr swly,
Al somas tae f sod is taken between the
Up; the task pf preparation begins he
morsel 1; ekamined, so to sys by tongue
and. teeth as to it, natnre and properties.
If the sense of testa be outeentid stature',
that is, not blunted by the' thickening or
deadening effects of chronic infternmation,
such as inter be set np either by neglect of
the teeth and the presence of teeter at their
barks, by the habitual use of irritating con-
diments. or tie abuse of lozenges and ju-
jubee taken "for the throat," --e most per-
nicioal pr otice, or by the much smoking, or
the use ef uodiluted spirits, the presence of
anything not fit for food will be readily de-
tected.
Children peeves thia 1 'catty of self-pro-
tection by taste ia a high degree, and those
who live the simplest lives retain it the
logeet, Fos the Bike of health we ought
to be corefal to preserve the function of
tate as long at psssible, and in an urso.
phisticeted stet; To thia end very hot
er very cold, very acrid or very sweet,
things ought to be avoided,, end a habit
should be formed and maintainea of melting
nice discrimination of taste as t6 what we
eat and drinle This will have the 'double
effect of developing taste and of preventing
the hasty swallowing of food, than 'which
no fault of habit is more taischievoua.
The teeth, too, pay an important part iii
the examination of Vats food taken into the
mouth. We are apt to think of the teeth
only so cutting, oruahing or grinding instm-
/nettle. A very little observation will show
that they are in truthfeeltra of extraordin-
ary delicacy, They recognize the slightest
grit in fed ; and in health, enable us to
erre—intuitively and tincoitsciously—the
raostperfect judgement as to the condition
of the Tomei in the month, in regard to the
degree of trituration it has received and the
further maa lea on needed by it.
Atter/treat mastication is one of the first
and most indispeneible conditions of the
fitnees of food for the stomach, yet, aotripat-
etively few petsone know hew to use their
teeth in this proceed, The human animal is
pr tided with teeth to cut with s teeth to
crash with, and teeth with which te grind
his food, but if only he can so divide the
morsel in his mouth as to be able to awallovv
it, he ores nothing more for the mouth pto-
Ogee, This is a grievous offenee against lia-
ture, easel like other of our bad habits it
gets worse as we retoW older,
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A change itt the shape oi the human foot
would teem to have taken place, When, it
s recorded that Greek statrice represent the
ascend too as longer than the gnat toe, but
ht the modern European feet the great tee
is generally the longed.
SOIBNTIII0 ITSBrins,
Eiestriotty has been tried almeeeefultYiu
Pranoe both to omega and prevent the m,
erusta4oh of boilers.'
It is steed Viet the proportion of ozone in
ap ere ol t>ars Iast year was In ill,
verse ratio to the mortality from cholera.
The Atlantic tides in the Hebrides re
abetireuillY high for about eight hours or
hem before the aneroach ef a osiolone or ae.
vers storm. Tbey mot ehtus be made to
;terve as weather prophets,
The Maxim/ Indiane make shieldof their
blanket; They aro haud-weven, fulled
thick, and water.ptoef. They even turn
aside bullets by causing them to glance or
by awayieg to the blow,
The glass insulators so commonly used to
hold lightning rods in place aro quite useless
aud an unnecessary expense, but axe not a
source of danger, A plain iron or wooden
supporter is equally effective,
Coal beds have been found in .Afrioa,
south of the river ,Rovuina, by the Poeta-
geese explorer Senor Plato. They are on
the old caravan track from Cape Delgado to
Lake Nyassa, and are claimed by the Port-
ugese Government
A vineyard near Malaga, apparently ruin-
ed by pnylloxera, came out with fresh vigor
after the recent earthquake in Spain. I& ist
supposed that liberated gene destroyed the
insects/ up n the vino. It is a remedy
that will not become popular.
It is estimated that 150,000,000 tons of
mater in solution are annually poured by
the Mississippi is the Gulf of Memo, This
in 4,000 yeah' would remove over the whole
basin one foot of land, Continents thua
wear away by the great rivers, and now ones
are formed.
An enema is given, on the authority of
Dr. Heinen, of Washington, in the Euro-
pean anthropological journal; of a curious
relics found in South Carolina The relic is
supposed to be a oese widish contained the
coloring matter and implements that had
been in tattooing.
A man in South Carolina claims to have
discovered a method of coupling roil -oars by
electricity. A freight trate was divided in-
to four parts and coupled agsen by the
duotor alone from the rear car. Such an in-
vention, if successful, will ba of great value
and save many lives annually.
Ithaa beennotiod that during the pres-
ent year in the District of Columbia the
charaoteri-tio rwiseeof the cicada has been
scarcely heard. It is supposed to be do to
the, inroads of the English aparrovr, whish
has decimated the cicada and prevented the
full maturity of the metes.
Readers in the country may be glad to
know that rims toa: , a homes patine prepar-
atien, is a remedy for poisoning by ivy. eIf
taken upon the first appearance of the blis-
ters it will generally effect &cure in three or
1 four daye. It is said that bryonia, taken
for a week or two, is a preventive.
Senor Ugas, in the Cronica Medica, Lima,
calls attention to the vesicating property
of the inner bark of the walnut tree. He
soaks the bark in vinegar for about fifteen
minutes and applies it to the+pare on which
a blister le required., In applying this re-
medy inuas'es of lupus he dusted the blister
with calomel.
Crucibles of nickel have lately been
adopted in some chemical labor itori a in the
place of the silver ones generally used for
melting caustics alkalies. , They have the
advantage not only of being cheaper, but' of
being capable of residing a higher tempera-
ture than the latter, ana the result is said to
be favorable. '
Electricity has been brought to the aid
of the 'sportsman by the use of a small lamp
for the front sight of a rifle, to render it
visible in the dusk, or when from any cause
whatever there is insufficient light. The
minute electric lamp is fixed near the num.
zle of the gun and shielded by a metallic
screen. The current is supplied by a malt
battery in the stock.
The Detroit Lane -it describes the four
plans for reducing obesity: The eating of
nothing containing etaroh, sugar or fat, call-
ed the Basting system; the eating of fat,
but not sugar or starch, called the German
Banting ; the wearing of wool and sleep ng
in flannel blankets, instead of sheets, of the
Munich system ; not eating and drinking at
the same time, or rather the allowing of a
couple of hours to intervene between eating
and drinkibg, the Schweninger system.
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A Mysterious Provicence.
Mrs. Spurgeon, the wife of the f trams
preaoher, is the subject of an astoniahing
story in the Presbyterian .Monthly Visitor of
London, " Daring an Most* of Mrs. Spur-
geon," says that paper, "she told him (Mr
Spurgeon) that she had been wishing for a
piping hull -finch and an onyx ring. Of
code Mr, Spurgeon expressed his willing-
ness to get both. but she made him promise
not to do so. He had to make a sick call on
his way to the station as well as call at the
Tabernacle. Shortly after reaching the siok
person's house the mother of the patient, to
Ms amazement, asked Mr. Spurgeon if Mrs,
8 would like a piping -bull -finch, that they
had one, but that its music was trying on
the /eyelid, and they would gladly part with
it to ova who would give it the requisite
care. He then made his call at the Taber-
nacle, and, after reading a voluminous cor-
reepondenee, came at last to a letter and a
panel underlying the other letters. The
letter was from a lady unknown to lain,
who had received benefit from his services
in the Tabernacle, and, as a Might token of
her appreciation of these aerticee, asked his
acceptance of the inclosed onyx ring, neck-
let, and bracelets, for which she had no fur-
ther tam This intensified his surprise, and
he hastened home with what had been so
strangely sent, went up into his wiles siok
room, and placed the objects she had long.
ed for before her,"
A number of doge were recently dosed
with morphine until they became insensible,
the object being to determine what drug
'would act most rapidly as an antidote. It
Was found that hynorlormio Neatens of
theino neutralized the narcotic almost la,
!tangy, although it was employed only af.
ter the heart had emased, to beat, Caffeine
had a considerable atai-nareotio power, but
was not equal to the principle derived from
tea,
IMIDAIRO
M aweddlng in Bridgeport, Conn reeent.
ty the groom,- it young ,esem, who- appeared
nervous frozn the start, broke into hysteri•
44 sobs before the ceremony was over.
laps bedstead has been made at a %a-
minghsen, Eng., factory far a Calcutta mil,
Jionaire. It Is of solid glass, the lee; rail;
41., being richly out. The King of Burmah
elite one
The Swiss army now numbers 477 Ceelit
rnistioeerl officer; and Ite effective strength
is 200,754 men, The highest rank recognized
in tiat livviss army during peace le that of
A writer in the Bulletin Generale de Thera.
veutique says that refrigeration of tbe lobe
of the ear will stop hiccough, whatever its
cause may be. Very Blight refrigeration,
suoh as a drop of cold water, is said to be
suffiolent.
A native of Madagascar it he studied med-
icine in Edinburgh and returned home, now
has seventy young men studying under him,
and a large class of women whom he Is train -
its for nurses.. Ile his in ;peat fever eith
his Queen, and le about to marry the (Primo
Minister's daughter.
The new idea in nostruine is not to pre.
tend that a particular medloine A. ill cure all
maladies, bat will positively and and oom.
pletely cure the one Moose for whioh it is
deeigned. The clear-sighted student of hu-
man nature who ditoveree this slant is said
to be on the road to a fortune.
When Bismarck made the acquaintance
of his present dootor he was siok and pew.
iehly declined to answer quettloos. "As
you like," said the dootor, r‘ then send for a
veterinary surgeon, as finch practicionere
treat their patients without eskirfg them any
questions." The Chancellor was wintered.
There is a curious uniformity in the num-
ber of persons killed annually in India by
wild anaemia and snakes The istoIian elfect-
ical Gazette gives the number of those killed
in Bengal alone by animals, for five yeara,
at from 1,204 to 1,302 in each year. The
snakes deatroyed from 9,153 to :10,064 an-
nually.
A Rooladede retriever has just out the re-
cord in the way of canine attachment and
fidelity, beset • breaking ground in an en-
tirely new dessorion. Hitherto the faithful
brates of his ePoies have achieved their
most notable sneceseea is the water, but this
dog has distinguished himself in another
eleinen The style in which he stook by
the blazing bedside of his owner's children
while the house was on fire comparea with
anythiug since Mre. Homans made the boy
stand on the burning deok.
A lately pabliehed report on the British,
army gives the millibar of recruits inepeet-
ed for 1883 at 59,436, of whom 23,595 were
rejected as nifit for service. There teems to
be no further reason for the popular belief
that Ireland glate England's battles, for the
reornits bern in England numbered 773 per
1,000. Scotland gave but 91, and Ireland
125 per 1,000. The number of short i:aen
offered was unusually large, so much so ea to
give rise to a question whether Eng'ishmen
were decreasing 'in stature.
The irrigationworks of Colorado are on
a great scale. The "Grand River Ditch,"
western Colorado, at the beginning, is thir-
tsefive feet wide at the bottom, MY feet
wide at the top, five feet deep for tb,e first
ten miles, then dicainishidg until the last
two and a half miles are sixteen feet wide
at the bottom, with three feet depth of wa-
ter. The grade is a little over twenty-two
toilets to the mile, which gives a strong
cur enb, One company engaged in the irri-
gating business has constructed over 100 tniles
of canals in the Rio Grande. valley at a cod
of $750,000.
Recent statistics ahow that in 1884 the
numb r of boiler explosions in the United
States wag 152, being less than in the pre-
-
vans year. There were 254 persons killed
atid 261. injured in them, however, and the
number is much larger than it ahould be.
Fifty-six of the explosions took place insaw-
mills, where the ao-called engineer finds a
too facile fuel in shavings. Men chosen for
such positions should have gumption to per-
ceive that such firing generates 'stoma too
rapidly for safety. These people can reduce
the general death rate if they wish, and can
espeoielly reduce the preeent high percent-
age of modality among sawmill engineers
Florida is the land of fruit as well as flow-
ers. A. paper of that State says " Com.
monolog with January, we have strawber.
ries then and until late in June, Japan
plums from February. Mulberries are ripe
in April and last until August. Pineapples
ripen in June and last near.y a'l the year.
We have guavas from July until late the
.next spring. Of the various berries—dew-
herds; blackberries, and huckleberries —
almost any quantity. Peaches ftom May 1
until July. Melons Iron June until late in
the fall. Oranges—the best of the kind —
from October until the next June, with lem-
ons and limes, persimmons, pomegranate;
grape fruit, grapes, and shaddocks,
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A flmart Ocheme.
Two derides had to carry a large (leek to
the house of Dr. Blister, who had bought it
at a ferniture store. When they arrived
with the deok he was in and directed them
where to put it, The deckles extended to
get a quarter eacli at least for their extra
trouble, but alas I the doctor did not give
them anything at all: He forgot all about k.
their sufferings in orrying the heavy desk
up two flight of staish
They consulted together for a moment in
the hall. and then they began to fight and
pound each Other, calling each other all
manner of vile hamea. No such upriser had
been heard since the adjournment of this
Legislative.
Dr. Mater hearing the noise, cantle out
and wetted to know what was the Otto of
the distittimaxce.
"Die holt nigge, kep for hisself de Money
What you gut bun for usii Isofe, for totin' do
dolt up de state, ' geld Sam.
" You is a liar. De dooter didn't gib me
de money, You got de money and kep' it,"
retorted Jim,
"You aro both elating, boys," said Dr.
Blister. "/ didn't give either of you any-
thing, but I'lI snake it ail right. Don't fight
any mere," and taking otic his pocket book
he geite thema qttatter each.
Those who Mort the colored 'Man has no
(emotive ability should ponder over this
tem,
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We. and during rummer between GlasSoW and )gOo
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