Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1885 — A Help to Good Digestion. [ARTICLE]

A Help to Good Digestion.

la tfce British Medical Journal Dr. W. Bob* erts, at Saarland, discusses the effect of liquor*, tea, coffee, and cocoa on digestion. All Of them retard the chemical processes, but most of them stimulate the glandular activity and muscular contractions. Distilled spirits retard the salivary or peptic digestion but slightly when sparingly used. Wines were found to be highly injurious to salivary digestion. On peptic digestion all wines exert a retarding influence. They stimulate the glandular and muscular activity of the stomach. Effervescent wines exert the greatest amount of good with the least harm to digestion. When one’s digestion is out of order everything goes awry, unless, as in the case of T. T. Seals, of Bellalre, Ohio, who had bad dyspepsia for seven years, the digestive apparatus is kept in apple-pie eating order by Warner’s Tippecanoe, the best appetite producer and regulator in the world. Tea, even in minute quantities, completely paralyzes the action of the saliva. The tannin in strong tea is injurious. Weak tea should be used, if at all. Strong coffee and cocoa are also Injurious if used in excess.— The Cosmopolitan.