Hints on the Diet of a Dyspeptic.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 72, 18 October 1884, Page 5

Hints on the Diet of a Dyspeptic.

Without being actual dyspeptics, a great many people suffer from what is termed weak digestion. The symptoms of such a condition of stomach and intestines are only too well known ; the feeling of uneasiness after eating, with probably some degree of distension and flatulence, acid eructations, constipation or the reverse, or the one state alternating with another, discomforting or alarming sensations about the regions of the heart, swimming in the head, noises in the ears, sleeplessness or non -refreshing slumber, occasional headaches, general ennui and weariness, and lastly, nervous symptoms of any or all kinds, not the least distressing of which may be some of the many phobsas that afflict people with weak digestions, from cardiphobia to hydrophobia. I have had patients whom no amount of reasoning would convince that they were not suffering from heart disease ; others who suffered, they said, from incipient poftening of the brain ; some who had no lungs, others minus liver. " I don't believe," apatient told me only the day before yesterday, "that I have an ounce of liver left." Well, such people, at all events, have my sincere sympathy, and my advice to them in the matter of diet is somewhat as follows : Eat moderately ; on no account take what may be called a full meal. Take food whenever hungry j for instance have breakfast immediately after getting up, merely going out of doors for five minutes previously. If hungry about 12, have a cup or cocoatina ; dine at 2 o'clock off a tender joint, or steak, or chop, with potatoes sparingly, and greens, a little soup, and tapioca or rice pudding. No pastry, or sweets, or cheeee. Take no fluid until you have nearly finished the solids. Vary the food every day. Fish only if quite digestible, which it oftentimes is not ; no veal or pork, but mutton, beef, game, and fowl. Fruit before breakfast, but not after dinner.— A Family Doctor, in "(fell's Family Magazine,"