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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    tial food at other times. Let the quantity taken at dinner be resolutely diminished, and breakfast will soon be appreciated. Most dys- peptics digest with greater ease animal food taken at breakfast than at dinner. I have often found this notably the case with reference to the same quantities at both meals. Not only is digestion better performed soon after the repose of the night, than when the nervous energies are more or less exhausted, but, owing to the early replenishment of the blood, gastric juice of better quality will be provided for the digestion of dinner. The time for breakfast must vary with the individual case. On rising from bed, appetite is often completely wanting, yet the feeble stomach should not be allowed to remain long without refreshment. It will be sometimes proper, especially should the patient rise early, to take only a small cup of tea or coffee, with a biscuit and a little dry toast, immediately on getting up. If circumstances admit of it, gentle exercise out of doors may then be taken, and, after an hour or two, the solid breakfast as already recommended.