After Dinner

Southland Times, Issue 11655, 9 February 1891, Page 4

After Dinner

-^ «-= [ThrfoUolringJinestave been written •»£!• V**tjD ha sxonre for dyspepsia. The fruit hai of late years been largely Vecom■ftfjnded by physicians as one of the most•Mini alteratives that can be taken, and — peciajly fgrwiHena* of -indigestion and tbe oomfpMffdfit arising' therefrom.] Don't talk to me of colocynth or famed eemlean pili, Don't Mention hyoscyamus or aloes when I'm • M ; The very word podophvllyn is odious in mine ears; * The thought of til the drugs I've tt'en calls np the blinding tears ; The Demon of Dyspepsia (a sufferer writes to «7)i At sight -of the toma'.o-plant will vanish quite away. The Faculty will diet you till indigestion stops, On what have Always seemed to me interminable slops : «\ dainty dish is sore to be the worst thing you can eat ; The bismuth and the charcoal come like nightmares after meat: Away with all restriction no#j bring mutton, beef, and veal, A» long as ripe tomatoes, come to supplement a meal. Hepatic action, doctors say, is very hard to start, And if you have too much of it, that also makes yon smart ; And so the fate of many folks, especially in town, Is first to stir the liver np, and then to calm him down. How he can trouble as no more, although we go the pace ; A diet of tomatoes keeps the tyrant in his piece. Away with deleterious drugs, for here's a plant been found, Worth all the weird concoctions that dis pensers can compound ; Get fresh tomatoes, red and ripe, and slice and eat, aad then — YojutH find that you are liver-leis, and not Hke other men. Gome ye who dire dyspepsia's pangs impatiently endure, R cannot hart, and may do good, this new tDtUtKMmre,