INDIGESTION.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4343, 1 December 1882, Page 2

INDIGESTION.

The commonest and most distressing symptoms of indigestion are a sense of weight or oppression in the stomach after partaking of a—generally unenjoyed— meal, often followed by irritability of temper, depression of spirits, and a sense of general discomfort vaguely termed." out of sorts." An attack may last for days or for weeks, or be so long continued as to become almost chronic. Medicine may give temporary relief, but that is all. The cause of the mischief, which may he taken to result from a fermentive process communicated to every meal almost as soon as swallowed, must be removed. An antiseptic must be looked for, that, while stopping or killing the ferment, will be harmless to the system; and w,e find ifcr*^ in glycerine, which was,first mentioned^"" in connection with indigestion about eighteen months ago by Doctors Sydney Ringer and William Murrell, in a joint article in the Lancet, wherein its use was recommended in cases of flatulence, acidity, and pyrosis. Glycerine is not only an antiseptic or ferment killer agreeable to take, but appears to possess the singular quality of passing through the digestive organs unchanged. * A drachm of glycerine mixed in half.a wineglass full of water is to be followed with, or immediately after each meal until the enemy takes to flight, which in an ordinary case, will be in from one to two days, and in an obstinate one, perhaps a fort" night. Sooner or later, unless the predisposing causes are removed, another attack will follow, and the glycerine will have to be resumed.—Chambers' Journal.