. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . called heartburn, or like maladies, the cause is usually some form of indigestion and is due to improper of these symptoms occur in the underfed but all of them may occur in those who are overfed. Too muchfood for one person may not be toomuch for some other person, as diges-tion is wholly an individual affair. Itnaturally follows that a food that hashelped or harmed one individual maynot so affect his neighbor. It is irrational to be careless ineating or to eat too much and thento take medicine or spirits to aid diges-tion. If a food cannot be dige
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . called heartburn, or like maladies, the cause is usually some form of indigestion and is due to improper of these symptoms occur in the underfed but all of them may occur in those who are overfed. Too muchfood for one person may not be toomuch for some other person, as diges-tion is wholly an individual affair. Itnaturally follows that a food that hashelped or harmed one individual maynot so affect his neighbor. It is irrational to be careless ineating or to eat too much and thento take medicine or spirits to aid diges-tion. If a food cannot be digestedwithout artificial aid it should not beeaten at all, or if eaten the quantityshould be small enough to be withinthe digestive power of the diner. Some persons have lived to old agewithout any appreciable illness from indigestion; but they were persons of equable temperament, were robust to start with and practiced few indiscretions in eating or otherwise. Such instances are extremely rare, for most persons have more or less. Fig. 224.—Baby Teeth, Except the Six-Year Molars. The six-year molars be-long to the permanent teeth 640 DIGESTION trouble some time in their lives and very many have digestive troublesall their lives. Many ailments have their origin in faulty nutrition. Indeed,physicians know that most of those who consult them have no organic diseasebut suffer from the evil effects of errors of diet, overwork or bad habitsof life. Different kinds of food produce different kinds of trouble but the firstrequisite bearing upon relief is to reduce the total quantity of food takenwhile the trouble lasts and to endeavor to determine the kind of food and thequantity that can be best borne with freedom from discomfort. Those suffering from a feeling of distention and the eructation ofgas may have excessive fermentation in the digestive process. As sugar is thechief factor in fermentation it should be discarded or the quantity greatlyreduced. As bread, potatoes and beans are
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