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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union INDIGESTION It is only natural when the stomach stom-ach is upset nausea, vomiting, pain to blame the symptoms on food very recently eaten. While this is true in some cases, fyf' "a4i-v ' tne stomach is upset ' - usually because ' something about the stomach and more Ajh& o'tcn the gall blad-l blad-l I -er as been aftect" y 'Ufy J ec n some manner. ' vitySm n In fact, some physl-1 physl-1 cians slate that two A'f' ailments are respon- I J sible for more than 1 half of all cases of Dr. Barton indigestion. These ailments are gall bladder disease and ulcerof the first part of the small intestine duodenal ulcer. Some months ago I spoke of the results of an investigation of the causes of indigestion recorded in the New England Medical Journal by Dr. T. Grier Miller. A chart showing show-ing the causes of indigestion in 2,542 cases accompanied the article. The symptoms complained of were discomfort in the stomach, lack of appetite, gas distension coming up through the mouth and going down and out of the intestine nausea and vomiting. Of this large number of cases 31 per cent had gall bladder trouble, ulcer ul-cer of the duodenum (upper part of small intestine) showed nearly 25 per cent, nervous and emotional disturbances dis-turbances of the stomach showed 17 i per cent, nervous and emotional disturbances dis-turbances of the large intestine (colon) (co-lon) accounted for about 8 per cent, Inflamed condition of the stomach lining 5 per cent, stomach ulcer 4 per cent, cancer of stomach 4 per cent, appendicitis between 2 and 3 per cent. An interesting point shown by the above figures is that 25 per cent of the cases, that is one in every four, was not caused by any disease or malformation of the stomach or intestine in-testine but from mental and emotional emo-tional disturbance. The lesson learned from this investigation in-vestigation is that when any of these common symptoms pain in stomach, stom-ach, lack of appetite, excessive amount of gas, nausea, vomiting occur at all regularly, the physician should be consulted. Should examination exami-nation reveal that no organic disease dis-ease or condition is causing the symptoms, this very knowledge may be sufficient to remove the mental or emotional disturbances which are causing the symptoms. Further, early investigation of these common symptoms will likewise like-wise reveal any disease or other condition present, the early treatment treat-ment of which may not only bring relief but prevent serious or fatal Illness. |