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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

"Well, I dunno!—I suppose my dyspepsy has made me kind o' irritable," he said by way of apology.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Thoroughwort is excellent for dyspepsy, and every disorder occasioned by indigestion.

From The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Francis Child

Should such intense exertion of the mind in youth not lead to insanity or immediate disease, it predisposes to dyspepsy, hysteria, hypochondriasis, and affections allied to insanity, and which are often its precursors.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew

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




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