Indigestion.

Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 84

Indigestion.

Sir Lauder Brunton gives the following rules for the treatment of chronic functional dyspepsia : The first rule is to eat slowly, masticate thoroughly. anS insalivate completely, three th-'ngs which are by no means always the same. The next rule is to take solids and liquids separately, the latter in the shape of hot water on rising in the morning, between 11 and 12 in the forenoon, about 4- or 5 in the afternoon, and at night before going to bed. When these rules do not suffice to remove the dyspepsia the patient must take his farinaceous and profceid foods at different meals alternately, a farinaceous meal at breakfast time and again at 5 o'clock, and meat and fish meals at midday and at 8 o'clock. In some cases it will be found advantageous to supplement the gastric jiuoe with a little acid and pepsin. A little alkali with calumba may be given before meals, or if there is gastric catarrh some substance containing tannin, such as an Infusion of gentian, may be preferable.