water-brash

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No, indeed, my Lady; my son Bob—Mr. Hickman O'Reilly, I mean—God forgive me, I'm sure they take trouble enough to teach me that name—he's got a kind of a water-brash, what we call a pyrosis.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

If much sugar or salt is used my stomach gets very sour, and water-brash is the result.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

Dogs are afflicted with a disease of the stomach, which is very like to "water-brash," "pyrosis," or "cardialgia," in the human being.

From The Dog by Dinks

Sometimes the action of the muscles is reversed, and then we get a gush of acid, or bitter, half-digested food up into the mouth, which we call "heart-burn" or "water-brash."

From A Handbook of Health by Hutchinson, Woods

He had a sour and sore stomach, and heartburn, and the water-brash, and wind, and colic, and wonderful misery of body and mind.

From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by Brown, John