Dyspepsia and how to cure it : description of the digestive organs and of the different kinds of food : special chapters on obesity, leanness and the skin / by M.T. Gerin-Lajoie.

  • Lajoie, M. T. Gerin.
Date:
1895
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    of dyspepsia ; but one must not be misled by the foul breath due to a decayed tooth, to ozena, to catarrh, etc. ; the food not being properly digested in the stomach a commencement of putrefaction sets in which causes the breath to become, foul. As everybody will notice in dyspepsia, the skin is more or less sallow, and always rough or greasy as I was graphically told one day by a lady. Many cases of eruptions* such as exanthema papula, vesicula pustula, eczema, etc., have been cured by the treatment of the dyspeptic trouble which caused these eruptions. A slight, dry, hacking, tiresome cough is often present in dyspepsia, and its only symptom ; this cough will disappear as soon as. dyspepsia is cured, or attended to. The pulse is small and weak, thread-like, some- times intermittent, and this irregularity of the heart's action is felt by the patient as palpitation. Some patients have a certain characteristic odor which is also communicated to their underwear, and with each exacerbation, this odor becomes stronger. Constipation is most always present and is sometimes the result of dyspepsia, other times, the cause of it. The faeces will usually come out in hard and dry little lumps ; which is a sure sign that intestinal dyspepsia is present. *L. Brocq, Traitement de Maladies de la Peau, Paris.