- a variation of dyspepsia.
dyspepsy
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Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a gentle and healthy physic, a preventive of dyspepsy, humors, inflammation, and all the evils resulting from a restricted state of the system.
From The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Francis Child
No, any dinner I'd get would give you compound, gallopin' dyspepsy, and I can't be responsible for your death—I love you too much.
From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln
If they ain't they ought to be," says I. "And to-morrer the dyspepsy doctors'll do business enough to give us a commission.
From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln
"An' if ye eat too much it only brings on the dyspepsy."
From From Farm to Fortune or Nat Nason's Strange Experience by Horatio Alger
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