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Example sentences for "dyspeptic"

Lexicographically close words:
dysgenic; dysmenorrhea; dysmenorrhoea; dyspepsia; dyspepsy; dyspeptics; dysphagia; dyspnea; dyspnoea; dysposed
  1. There are a lot of devils of different sorts to be cast out, and I am sure the dyspeptic devil is about the worst and the meanest of them all.

  2. The dyspeptic symptoms may be so marked that one might almost speak of a variety of arteriosclerosis, the dyspeptic type.

  3. Dyspeptic symptoms are not infrequent, pyrosis (heartburn), a feeling of fullness after meals with belching or a feeling of weight in the epigastrium.

  4. Arsenic: in small doses in cases associated with bronchitis or simulating hay fever, or in the bronchitis of children, or in the dyspeptic asthma.

  5. Acid, Nitric: in dyspeptic ulcers the strong acid as caustic.

  6. Sea air helps a certain class of neurasthenics, but it makes others worse--it is bad for the dyspeptic neurasthenic.

  7. The ordinary depressed condition so familiar in our dyspeptic friends and that develops so commonly as the result of indigestion, is an example of the depressing effect of toxic substances upon nervous tissues and mental states.

  8. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have "broken his digester.

  9. This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters.

  10. As a consequence, care in diet is often required for a considerable period after the course of the disease has ended; dyspeptic symptoms are frequently complained of, and marked emaciation and anæmia often protract convalescence.

  11. And, worst of all, the woman-hater is generally dyspeptic, and if a woman marries a dyspeptic man she is done for.

  12. There is always something very unsatisfactory and inconclusive about a blind man discoursing on colour, or a dyspeptic one on pleasure and happiness.

  13. His dyspeptic state prevented him from enjoying any pleasure, and his sour disposition any happiness; and, just as a man who cannot eat a dinner loves to lecture another who enjoys a good digestion, he scolded and snarled.

  14. Let a dyspeptic ascertain that he can eat porridge three times a day and live, and straightway he insists that everybody ought to eat porridge and nothing else.

  15. I was quite taken by the remark of a thin, dyspeptic man who summed up the matter by growling out in a harsh, deep bass voice, "Punish 'em in love!

  16. Whenever it becomes so, the dyspeptic approaches the condition of the reptiles or ruminating animals, in whom the process of digestion so absorbs the powers of the nervous system that all other modes of its activity are suspended.

  17. The hypochondria of the ancients, the dyspeptic melancholia of the moderns, the infinite varieties of hysterical sensibility, are all well-known illustrations of this undisputed fact.

  18. Dyspeptic and neurotic people are often liable [to suffer from them].

  19. Flint insisted always: "This is a good reason for your having dyspepsia; I never knew a dyspeptic get well who undertook to regulate his diet.

  20. Many a dyspeptic makes this an excuse for his bad temper.

  21. The root stocks are brought to this country from Germany, being used by mastication to cleat the urine when it is thick and loaded with dyspeptic products; also for flavouring beer, and scenting snuff.

  22. They are eminently useful to correct the flatulence of languid digestion, serving also to relieve dyspeptic headache, to allay colic of the bowels, and to promote the monthly flow of women.

  23. An infusion of them made with boiling water and allowed to become cold, will allay any distressing sensitiveness to pain in a highly nervous subject, and will afford relief to the faceache or earache of a dyspeptic or rheumatic person.

  24. Don't you know you've always come to me when you've been dyspeptic or sick anyhow, and wanted to put yourself wholly into my hands, so that I might order you like a child just what to do and what to take?

  25. The Reverend Mr. Fairweather had been dyspeptic and low-spirited of late, and was too languid for controversy.

  26. He employed it in liver-diseases generally, among which he included a number of dyspeptic and gouty disorders.

  27. In cancerous, scrofulous, scorbutic, and dyspeptic habits, the blood may be deteriorated by a fault in the assimilative processes.

  28. But it is chiefly on account of its anti-dyspeptic agency, and its astringent action on the secretions, that the title of Tonic has been so often applied to it.

  29. A respectable gentleman in middle life, who commenced chewing tobacco at the age of eighteen, was long afflicted with depression of spirits, great emaciation, and the usual dyspeptic symptoms.

  30. Hence most, if not all, who are accustomed to the use of tobacco, labor under dyspeptic symptoms.

  31. The same general course should be pursued, however, as with dyspeptic consumptives.

  32. Then he'll heave a sigh which he thinks comes from a broken heart, but which really emanates from a dyspeptic condition, caused by lack of exercise.

  33. It means the elimination of the dyspeptic and the 'autocrat of the breakfast table,' who frowns coldly upon the efforts of his young wife in the culinary line and carries off her biscuits to serve as paper weights.

  34. The patients in question have frequently passed so gradually into the dyspeptic condition as to have become accustomed to it, and inclined to forget that the stomach was the organ which first gave them annoyance.

  35. The pains of hypochondriasis, when they assume any more definite form than that of mere dyspeptic uneasiness, present many analogies with neuralgia.

  36. While the great majority of dyspeptic pains are increased by filling the stomach, gastralgia, on the contrary, is invariably relieved by food, often most strikingly and completely.

  37. I heard recently of a hopeless dyspeptic who recovered health on a diet composed almost entirely of porridge made of three-parts whole wheatmeal to one of oatmeal.

  38. The variety of biscuits and cakes ranges from the plainest sorts, to suit the dyspeptic or ascetic, to the most delectable dainties for afternoon tea, not forgetting Oaten Shortcakes to specially delight the "Canny Scot.

  39. A gouty feeling in my feet, a dyspeptic ache of the stomach and an alcoholic pain in the head, caused me to be in a very disagreeable mood, and I felt like kicking the entire gathering out of my presence.

  40. It enables us to know precisely the amount of food taken, and to regulate it easily; and it nearly always dismisses, as by magic, all the dyspeptic conditions.

  41. The same scale of diet was continued during the whole treatment, and, from first to last, never produced the slightest dyspeptic symptoms, and was consumed with relish and appetite.

  42. Walking became impossible, and, tied to her couch, she grew dyspeptic and constipated.

  43. I shall formulate as curtly as possible the rules to be followed in using milk as an exclusive diet in dyspeptic states, and in anæmia with obesity, and in the latter state uncomplicated by defective hæmic conditions.

  44. Now, when these Latin names within Dyspeptic hulks like mine Go wrong, a fellow should begin To draw what's called the line.

  45. This is very excellent bread--a different thing from the hard, unpalatable article which many a dyspeptic eats as a penance.


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