Word: dyspepsia
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...used for the first time exclusively and proved very successful. The second year of the voluntary religious system has proved even more successful than the first. The report of the athletic committee is most encouraging, and in reply to the critics of our athletics the faculty urge, that dyspepsia is less tolerable than a stiffened knee or thumb, and that effeminacy and luxury are even worse evils than brutality." A new regulation requires holders of scholarships to take two physical examinations during the year...
When the men reached Cambridge their extravagant feelings were somewhat subdued by the cold. Nevertheless the unanimous verdict was that, barring the fact that they had been almost frozen on the way to Wellesley, and that the sumptuous spread with which they were served would probably give them all dyspepsia, and that they had to pose around the corridors as statuettes after the concert instead of charming the Wellesleyians with Harvard wit, and finally that, when they reached Cambridge, the driver had been obliged to roll them all out of the barge like barrels they were so stiff with...
...vegetables to the action of saliva, converting it into soluble sugar, and to divide the nitrogenous food so as to render the access of gastric juice to all particles of it easy, on its arrival in the stomach. When a large amount of ice-water is taken with meals, dyspepsia undoubtedly results from it at times. As Americans are the great consumers of water in this condition, it has been called American, or ice-water dyspepsia. Drink should be taken mainly at the end of the meal. Potatoes should be thoroughly cooked so as to be mealy, otherwise the saliva...
...best equipped in the country, and the students take just as much exercise as the director, who is both a trained gymnast and a skilful physician, counsels. No one ever heard of an accident there. How many young and old men find athletic exercise the only safeguard against dyspepsia or insomnia? It is time this tirade against college athletics ceased. American students, despite all that has been said to the contrary, need rather encouragement than discouragement in respect to rational athletic training. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...this account, cherishes only bitter feelings against the whole college world. This reason for such caustic satire seemed at first plausible, but, on re-reading several editorials, nothing was found that would for a moment lead one to suspect him of having received a liberal college education. If dyspepsia is the cause of his sourness, which we are inclined to think is the case, let him carefully read the advertisements in the paper he represents, and among them he will surely find some remedy...