INDIGESTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1249, 9 December 1882, Page 2

INDIGESTION.

(Chambers' Journal.). The commonest and most distressing symptoms of indigestion are a sense of weight or oppression in the stomach after ...« partaking of a—gr-mlly nnenjoyed—meal, often followed by irritability of temper, depression of spirits, and a sense • of general discomfort vaguely termed "out ' of sorts." An attack may lost for days or j for weeks, or be so long continued become almost chronio. Medicineintay temporary relief, bnt that is all. The ™ cause of thi mischief, which may be taken t -. to result from i fermentire process com- ' municaied to every meal almost as toon ; as swallowed, must be removed, An • antiseptic must bt looked for, that, while stopping or killing the ferment, wuT bo harmless to the system; and we find it •. ~ in glycerine, which was first mentioned ' ' in connection with indigestion about eighteen months ago by Doctors Sydney - Ringer ind William Murrell, in a joint article in the Lancet, wherein its use was recommended in cases of flatulency, acidity, and pyrosis. Glycerine is.not only an antiseptic or ferment filler agreeable to take, bin appears to possess the sigular quality of passing through the digestive organs unchanged, A drachm, of glycerine mixed hi half a wine glass 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 from one to . two days, and in an obstinate one perhaps a fortnight. Sooner or later, unless, tha : . pre-dispnsinecauses are removed, ajiother *. attack will follow, and the glyce'rino will Lave to be resumed.