| Show DRINKING BEFORE MEAL TIME directions wile may lie ito of grent grant value to Dy deppa the morning moraine glass class an acquaintance of tho the writer who has baa suffered sorely from dyspepsia for a number of years and has tried most of tho the numerous remedies a lost host of kind ti ft lends have recommended mended for her relief relict hands bands us tile the following article from tho the medical news with the ho request i that it bo be bo be printed in the scientific american our dyspeptic friend has found great relief in following tile tho directions and I 1 it I 1 is hoped others may bo be also benefited ill III the morning tho the stomach conta contains JIls a considerable quantity of mucus spread over still and adherent to its walls if food enters at this time tho the tenacious mucus will interfere to some extent with tho the direct contact between the food and tho the stomach nee necessary essary to provoke the secretion of gastric juice A glass of water taken before breakfast passes through tho the stomach into the small intestines lu in a continuous and tim uninterrupted interrupted flow it partly distends dis tends the stomach stretching ching and to some extent obliterating the rugee it thins and watches out most of tile tho tenacious mucus it increases the fullness of the capil laries of the stomach directly it if tho the water is warm and indirectly in a reactionary way if ff it is cold it causes peristalsis of tile the alimentary tract wakes ivales it up so to speak and gives it a morning exercise and is washing care must bo be taken not to give cold water when hen the circulation either cither local or general is so feeble as to make reaction improbable wo should not risk it in advanced age nor in the feeble Is whether hether old or young nor should it bo be given in local troubles uio chronic gastric catarrh in cheso cases it itis is best to give warm n ater or hot water the addition of salt is very beneficial such a timo time honored custom as drinking soup at the beginning of a meal could only have been so persistently adhered to because of it having lieen lie en found by experience to be the most appropriate prop tune time it does exactly what warm or dr hot water with avith the addition of salt does and more in that it is nutritive and excites the flow of gastric juice scientific annerl american |
