Osteopathy Complete . e or breath and heartburn; pain and a sensation of weight and inconvenience orfullness after a meal; irregular action of the bowels; head-ache, diminished mental energy and alertness, and dejectionof spirits; palpitation of the heart or great vessels, andvarious affections in other organs. CAUSE. Dyspepsia, or indigestion, is usually caused by a con-stipated condition of the bowels, which, becoming over-loaded, hinder the action of the stomach until the glands ofthat organ become diseased. Thus we are again confrontedwith the parallel of an electric car, which, having los
Osteopathy Complete . e or breath and heartburn; pain and a sensation of weight and inconvenience orfullness after a meal; irregular action of the bowels; head-ache, diminished mental energy and alertness, and dejectionof spirits; palpitation of the heart or great vessels, andvarious affections in other organs. CAUSE. Dyspepsia, or indigestion, is usually caused by a con-stipated condition of the bowels, which, becoming over-loaded, hinder the action of the stomach until the glands ofthat organ become diseased. Thus we are again confrontedwith the parallel of an electric car, which, having lost itscurrent, obstructs the main track. We expect to prove tothe intelligent reader that when the peristaltic action of thesmall intestine loses part of its nerve-power, occasioned bya pressure on the splanchnic center at or near the spine, thefoundation is laid not only for constipation, livei^ complaint,and various stomach and Tcidney troubles, but by blockingthe main track, one organ after another becomes diseased,. Cut 17.—Kneading the Bowels. STOMACH, INTESTINES, AND PERITONEUM. 159 and finally the stomach, bloated or filled with gas, pressesso hard upon the diaphragm, compressing the left lung, thatit affects even the lungs and heart. Many cases of hearttrouble we have traced directly to this cause, and cured byworking on these never-failing principles, TREATMENT. 1. Place the patient on the side; with the fingers ofboth hands upon the spine, beginning at the upper cervicals,move the muscles upward and outward, very deep and thor-oughly, as low as the last dorsal (see cut 7). Tender spots willusually be found between the second and sixth dorsal, overthe nerves of assimilation, and should be treated soon as the soreness begins to disappear, the patient willcommence to recover. Careful investigation in the immedi-ate region where the tenderness is discovered will lisuallyenable the operator to detect some slight contraction in thedeep muscles, thus obstructi
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