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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    the benefit of a cigar or a pipe, its sedative and slightly stimulating action tending to promote digestion, and smokers find it very enjoyable after a good meal. Besides being most enjoyable after a meal, it is least injurious then. Bad Hygienic Surroundings are another cause. Mild relaxing air, low situations, especially if warm and moist, thundery weather, close, heated rooms, and want of fresh air. Whatever enervates the body, and lowers its tone, will to that extent impair the functions of the stomach. The opposite of this is also true. It would be well to mention here Bathing as affecting digestion. One would think it unneces- sary to caution against bathing on a full stomach did not one read in the newspapers of fatal acci- dents brought about by ignorance of this fact. Not only does it produce indigestion, but it brings on cramp, and the better the swimmer the more danger there is. The exertion of swimming' and the cold applied to the surface of the body, when the stomach is loaded, perhaps with an indigestible meal, may produce serious results. After a heavy meal avoid both cold and hot baths. The one drives from the surface of the body too much blood into the stomach, the other draws