Dyspepsia / by John Dewar.

  • Dewar, John.
Date:
[1891]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dyspepsia / by John Dewar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and at noon, and at the sunset meal, nothing but eternal manioc, with neither fat, nor fish, nor meat, nor oil, nor butter, nor salt, of any kind to assist its passage down the gullet, is apt to cloy. Give the appetite something now and then to smell or see with the manioc, and the Zanzibari is satisfied. Without that, the stomach by-and- by shuts the door, and won't take anything, and men die. These were the words spoken by Ferajji to Stanley after the unfortunate experi- ence of that most unfortunate column. Just so. This is often the feeling of the dyspeptic ; this can't be eaten, and that can't be eaten, and the other thing disagrees ; and so the diet becomes monotonous. If a thing once disagrees with a person, it is, by some, ever after tabooed. A better principle on which to act would be, if a thing has once agreed with one, try it again. The fault may not have been with the thing itself, but with the way it was cooked, or served, or with the condition of the individual at that particular time. If the dyspeptic narrows his diet table too much the stomach by-and-by