Hot Water and Dyspepsia

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 139, 17 May 1890, Page 4

Hot Water and Dyspepsia

Another hydroatic method which acts ?by removing the cause of disturbance, is rhe sipping of hot water an hour before: meals,, in dyspepsia. The hot; 'Vsfer craze, which now has taken a firm hold upon the lay public, is but the legit i <mate outcome of a valuable therapeutic -application of. water whose simplicity -conynends it at once to the judgment -of th« intelligent physician. Brought into prominence by Dr Salisbury, who *comjnitted the .error of most enthusiasts -of regarding Jt as a panacea for most ? 'diseases, it has now been adopted by the {profession .as a -most valuable agentaiany gastric troubles. By removing. -thegprodjncts.Jof fermentatfon, by cleans-' ing^the m.uciU?' membrane oi mucus, it restores' tone and vigor to the. . gastric 'lining and the natural forces tto gome into- play. .It is important to "observe strict „ppn»pliance with the rule, tfaid -&wrn 4>y tie originator, viz., that water should be sipped as hot as possible, and' that an hour should elapse . before a jaaefl is taten. Examples of neglect. of this rule, are i numerous in the experience of ail medi-■-aoal" men-^Dr S. Bairuch, in Times and Register.