- a variation of dyspepsia.
dyspepsy
Example Sentences
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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."
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So Dangerfield's little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
I has the dyspepsy; my suggestion aint as good as common.
From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)
That teller never quit thinkin' of his dyspepsy, but chucked the stuff right over the counter.
From Mr. Scraggs by Phillips, Henry Wallace
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 Child, Lydia Maria Francis