Causes and treatment of imperfect digestion / by Arthur Leared.

  • Leared, Arthur, 1822-1879.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Causes and treatment of imperfect digestion / by Arthur Leared. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    too oil}', and, if lean, too hard of digestion to sit easil}^ on the stomacli. When a sense of fulness, and other uneasy sensations already described, are only expe- rienced after dinner,* less food should be taken at that meal, and the deficiency should be made up at breakfast. The principle to be kept in view is this, to apportion the amount of food necessary to sustain the body, more evenly over the waking hours than is com- monly done. A great fault in the dietetic svstem of this country consists in the fact that most people are supported mainly by dinner. The meal is consequently too large, and from this unsuspected cause much dyspeptic suffer- ing results. If man were strictly a carnivo- rous animal, he might satisfy the cravings of hunger, and maintain his health by a single daily meal. If man were strictly an herbivo- rous animal, he would be impelled to eat more constantly than his present constitution ever disposes him to do. Analogy and reason teach us that he blends the nature of both classes, and therefore the intervals between taking food * See page 23.