water-brash
Example Sentences
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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 Edward Pollock Anshutz
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 Charles James Lever
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 Woods Hutchinson
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
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 John Brown
