DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION

general term applied when the digestive organs, especially the stomach, are unable properly to perform their function of digesting the food, and thereby cause various disagreeable symptoms. D, may be due to derangement of the organs themselves, or to faults of the person affected. Under the former head may be cla ed weakne of the digestive organs after fevers, etc.; deficiency of the digestive juices of the stomach, of the pancreas, or of the liver; or, a frequent cause, bad teeth. Under the latter come intemperance in eating or drinking, or both; swallowing the food hurriedly without chewing it properly; drinking too much, or too often, tea, coffee, alcohol; insufficient exercise, or hard mental or physical work immediately after food; worry and mental strain; unclean, but not actually decayed, teeth. The symptoms experienced usually include lo of appetite, headache, giddine , a feeling of fulne or discomfort or dull pain in the chest after food, flatulence, nausea, and vomiting, but only one or two of these may be present. i\' vi! ”, E, fifth letter of Eng. alphabet, having various long and short sounds; occasionally sounded as a (clerk); final e is now usually mute, but was originally sounded. EA, water-deity, a ociated, in the re of Babylon, with the Persian ° E (1/4) e (1/4)