Cured; the 70 adventures of a dyspeptic . u ever seen a case just like minebefore ? I inquired. I have cured a hundred like you, Keatingsaid, with a bold wave of the hand, which wasconvincing. I felt joyous. Here was a manwho could cure me! He was indeed the scien-tific man I had sought. In discussing diet Keating said: You needmore nitrogenous food. I told him I had been living on milk andcrackers. No strength in that, he I said I had eaten nothing but meat forten days and I thought that was a nitrogenousdiet. What you need is a combination offoods, he explained. In other words,
Cured; the 70 adventures of a dyspeptic . u ever seen a case just like minebefore ? I inquired. I have cured a hundred like you, Keatingsaid, with a bold wave of the hand, which wasconvincing. I felt joyous. Here was a manwho could cure me! He was indeed the scien-tific man I had sought. In discussing diet Keating said: You needmore nitrogenous food. I told him I had been living on milk andcrackers. No strength in that, he I said I had eaten nothing but meat forten days and I thought that was a nitrogenousdiet. What you need is a combination offoods, he explained. In other words, a goodsquare meal. I told him that good squaremeals meant doctor visits in my run-down con-dition. Not with the medicine I am going togive you, he replied. He dashed off a prescription, saying: Thisis for some cachexia tablets. They will allay theirritation in the duodenum, the sac below thestomach into which the foods pass. It is thereall the misery arises in your case. Thats whyyou have distress several hours after meals, no , V ^ £ ^. In about ten minutes I thought fireworks with revolvingwheels had been set off in the epigastrium. CURED 37 matter what you eat. But we are going to fixthat. In a few months, young man, you will beentirely cured. I shouted for joy. I could have hugged thatman. With his prescription in hand, andhardly waiting to thank the great scientist, whohad at last diagnosed my case correctly, Idashed out into the street. My ears rang withthe words, entirely cured. When I had the tablets in my coat pocket, Irushed around to the post-office to write cardsto all of my ex-physicians, telling them of mydiscovery that I had been the victim of theirterrible mistakes. I returned to the dairy farm and lost no timein eating a square meal of mutton chops, bakedpotatoes, bread and butter, topped off with acup of tea. I took the cachexia tablet after thismeal, the first regular meal I had eaten inmonths. In about ten minutes I thought fire-works with revolving wheels
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