| take daily exercise on horseback or in a carriage ; to rise early, 
and avoid all intense thought, excessive heat, and great fatigue. 
_ If want of appetite proceed from any other disease, that must be 
attended to; if from errors of diet, it ought to be changed. If nau- 
sea and retchings, show that the stomach is loaded with crudities, a 
it will be necessary. After this, a gentle purge or two of rhu- 
will be proper. ‘The patient ought next to use some of the sto-_ 
machic bitters infused in wine, or the tonic tincture ; in some cases 
of weak stomachs, the elixir vitriol will very soon create an appetite, — 
_ If the stomach is inclined to sourness, or fermentation, lime-water, — 
or the sal zeratus and rhubarb mixture, become necessary. 
A want of appetite and loathing of food is not usually an original 
affection, but prevails as a symptom of some other disease, such as 
_ indigestion, and is therefore to be obviated by aromatics, bitters, iron, 
: vitriol, and otheracids. In spontaneous loss of appetite, when — 
ch is loaded with bile, an emetic in the evening, with some 
ad of stomachic purgative next morning, will generally effect a_ 
= HEARTBURN. a 
What is commonly called heartburn, is nota disease of that organ, 
but a painful sensation of heat_and sourness about the left orifice, 
Or pit,ofthestomach, = =———S iS, 
_ It may proceed from debility of the stomach, indigestion, bi 
superabundance of acid in the stomach; corrosive steams, a 
_ from too rapid a fermentation ; drinking stale beer, wine, or any fer 
_Symproms.—Sour belchings, a hot burning pain at, and above the 
pit of the stomach, nausea; vomiting soon after meals, of a greasy 
. inflammable phlegm; spasms in the stomach and bowels: the rising 
of water in the mouth, sickness soon after rising from bed ; 
It is never dangerous, but extremely troublesome ; if it is suf 
to continue long, it may occasion head-ach, dizziness, and 
sions of all sorts. 
When the patient is troubled with hot fumes, and vomiting 
meals, the sal wratus ae. gan mixture may be depended | 
pretty certainly for relief. _ ‘mH 
or winter-green. - 
I have frequently known the heartburn cured by chewing’ 
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