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tinuance of the cause, so it will with the pepsin here as well as in the other case. 

 But whether the solution or the powder is being used, if there is heat and an 

 uneasy or distressed condition of the stomach, it is an evidence that the hoi; 

 water, given next below, is called for, and will prove valuable. 



13. Hot Water for Dyspepsia.— The following item is from the 

 Hartford Courant, which I have since proven to be very valuable. By using 

 the hot water an hour before each meal, instead of only at breakfast. The 

 Courant say?,: "A gentleman who is in business in this city has cured him- 

 self of a chronic and ugly form of dyspepsia in a very simple way. He 

 was given up to die; but he finally abandoned alike the doctors and the drugs, 

 and resorted to a method of treatment which most doctors and most persons 

 would laugh at as an ' old woman's remedy.' It was simply swallowing a tea- 

 cupful of hot water before breakfast every morning. He took the water from 

 the cook's tea-kettle, and so hot that he could only take it by the spoonful. For 

 about three weeks this morning dose was repeated, the dyspepsia decreasing all 

 the while. At the end of that time he could eat, he says, any breakfast or dinner 

 that any well person could eat— had gained in weight, and has ever since been 

 hearty and well. His weight is now between 30 and 40 pounds greater than it 

 was during the dyspepsia sufferings; and for several years he has had no trouble 

 with his stomach — unless it was some temporary inconvenience due to a late 

 supper or dining out, and in such a case a single trial of his ante-break fast remedy 

 was sure to set all things right. He obtained his idea from a German doctor, 

 and in turn recommended it to others— and in every case, according to this 

 gentleman's account, a cure was effected. " 



Remarks. — After seeing the above item ir) the Courant I have had occasion 

 to use the hot water personally, and to direct it for others; and I have found it 

 satisfactory, if taken faithfully before eac'i meal, instead of only at breakfast. I 

 also find that heating it in summer to about 40 degrees and in winter to 145 degrees 

 F., is about the right degree of heat. I hea' it over a small coal-oil stove, in a pint 

 tin cup, about % full, which I find about the right amount to be taken at one 

 time. It can be heated in a tea-kettle and poured into a cup or bowl; but it is 

 well to have a thermometer to know just what the heat is. A tea-spoonful of 

 sugar makes it pleasant for me, but a bit of lemon juice might suit some better. 

 It must be followed for several months, in long standing cases, to prove of last- 

 ing benc'it, eating only easily digested food, and nothing that disagrees with 

 the stomach. The sipping of the hot water has this advantage also, it allays 

 the great thirst of dyspeptic patients, as well as the heat and distress in the 

 stomach, better than anything else I know of, contracting the lax and flabby 

 condition of the muscular coating of the stomach, giving tone and strength to 

 this organ, which immediately diffuses itself to the whole system. Take the 

 hot water before each meal and at bed-time as long as you have any considerable 

 thirst. Be careful, also, not to eat too much, and only at meal times, 

 and a cure must be the result. (See also Hot Water Cure for Consumption.) 



APPETITE— To Increase or Restore. — Obtain valerian root, 3€ 

 or % lb. Have it ground ccwiraely, or well bruised. Make a tea of it by steep- 



