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Show ABOUT PAMPERED STOMACH From This Account One Should Not Give In to a Weak Digestion. Di-gestion. Even though It takes pork four hours to leave tho stomach nnd six hours to bo dissolved and absorbed In the small Intestine, what does that matter sc long as It Is complotely assimilated by tho end of thnt time, ns It Is In 90 per cent, of nil dlgestlvo canals? It Is the slowest but also one of the Barest foods that wo havo to give off nil Its energy to the body. Its very slowness is what gives It its splendid staying powers for hard work, whether musculnr or mental, writes Woods Hutchinson, M. D., in McCluro's Magazine. As a matter of fact, I havo seen more cases of dyspepsia cured by the uso of breakfast bacon than by any kind of drug or restricted diet. An adult alimentary cannl which cannot digest bacon or ham is not to be regarded as healthy, nnd instead ol humoring and giving In to n weak digestion, di-gestion, It should bo braced up and under un-der skilled supervision educated to tnkt what Is given It and mako no fuss Stomachs cun be spoiled by giving them too little to do almoit as easll ns by giving them too much. A health) stomach (It to cope with the emergencies emer-gencies of life must bo able to digest not only thnt which is digestible, but much thnt Is difficult of digestion, and this Is tho stnndnrd which should be aimed nt In dietetic therapeutics. |