724 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



by chemical analysis to contain no more gluten than 

 the best whole-wheat flour. It is, in fact, impossible 

 to make a flour which will contain much more than the 

 ordinary percentage of gluten obtained in whole-wheat 

 flour, as it is impossible to separate the starch and the 

 gluten by any process of milling. 



The gluten flour containing 40% of gluten meets all 

 ordinary requirements. Bread prepared from gluten 

 and bran is especially to be commended in these cases 

 because of the need of combating constipation. 



NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA 



Americans are a nation of dyspeptics, and most 

 physicians will readily assent to the assertion that fully 

 half of the dyspeptics belong to the class commonly 

 known as nervous dyspeptics. A chronic nervous dys- 

 peptic is all but incurable, not because of the intrinsic 

 obstinacy of his malady, but because the disease is 

 more than half in his mind. We do not mean by this 

 remark that he is an imaginary sufferer, but that the 

 disease affects his mind in such a manner that the 

 mental malady becomes the major part of the disease. 

 He thinks of his stomach before he eats, while he eats, 

 and after he eats. He will not let the poor organ 

 escape from his mental vision for an instant. He talks 

 of his afflictions with every sympathetic friend who 

 will listen. He considers his digestive machine the 

 wickedest of stomachs, the very incarnation of cruelty, 

 and in view of his daily martyrdom, wears a long face 

 perpetually, and especially at home, -where he enter- 

 tains his wife and children with his groans and lamen- 



