FEW words in the English language express so much of misery and suffering as are comprehended in this single word, dyspepsia. Indigestion is a synonym for every unpleasant, wretched, painful feeling to which humanity is subject. It is a disease which deprives its victims of nearly all the pleasures of living, and yet allows them to drag out year after year of misery until they are finally worn out by constant suffering.
But we need not expatiate upon the horrors of this direful malady, for who is not acquainted with them? How few are there who have not felt some of the tortures of indigestion, either chronic or acute! Indeed, it has become a proverb which is repeated by every author who attempts to write upon this subject, that the American people are a nation of dyspeptics. An examination of the older medical works reveals the fact that this lamentable condition has arisen within the last fifty years. Not that dyspepsia was unknown a half century ago; but its prevalence was then so limited as to be of little significance. Now we see this disease appearing, in some one of its myriad forms, in every household; and so rapidly is it extending its ravages that, unless its course is speedily stayed, it will soon become a universal malady. Already does it annually claim more victims than any other single disease. Cholera is a fearful scourge. Yellow fever may well excite alarm as a great destroyer. Scarlet fever and small-pox are most calamitous imports into any community. But dyspepsia is a much more stupendous evil than any or all of these, notwithstanding the fact that it never figures largely, if at all, in the mortuary tables of the published reports of vital statistics.
Nearly 33,000 deaths from various causes were reported for New York city during the year 1872. Of this vast number not one was attributed to dyspepsia. Of the 10,766 deaths in Michigan during 1870, only twenty-five were attributed to dyspepsia. These reports are exceedingly deceptive; for they attribute to other causes thousands of deaths which are really due to derangements of the digestive apparatus. And, furthermore, thousands of other deaths occur from diseases which never could have existed, had the digestion remained unimpaired. Taking these considerations into the account, it is evident that at least one-half of all the deaths which occur, are the more or less direct results of some of the various forms of dyspepsia.
A brief glance at a few of the diseases which spring directly from dyspepsia will make this fact still more apparent. Diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, worms, colic, cholera, and the great majority of bowel complaints, originate in indigestion. The best medical authors admit that most of the derangements of the liver are due to the same cause. The same is true of kidney diseases. Paralysis and apoplexy, heart-disease, bronchitis, together with inflammations of the stomach and bowels, are also almost wholly due to dyspepsia. Consumption almost always comes subsequent to indigestion, as a consequence of defective nutrition and lowered vitality. Other lung diseases are also the direct results of the same morbid conditions.
WHAT IS DYSPEPSIA?
Notwithstanding its exceeding prevalence, to frame a satisfactory definition of this disease is a task of no little difficulty. The difficulty does not consist, however, in the obscurity of the symptoms, or in their indefinite character; but it lies in the fact that so numerous are the conditions, so varying the symptoms which characterize this disease, that to describe it is to describe nearly every morbid condition, every unnatural and unpleasant feeling, in fact, every symptom of deranged function or perverted action which is presented in the long list of diseases which the nosologist enumerates.
This wonderful multiplicity of symptoms grows out of the fact that dyspepsia is not a local disease. It is rather the name of a pathological condition which involves every organ, tissue, and structure in the body. It is a general deterioration of the whole physical organization. In fact, it may be said to be “the sum of all chronic diseases.”
SYMPTOMS OF DYSPEPSIA.
As will be inferred from the preceding remarks, no small difficulty is experienced in accurately defining the multitudinous symptoms which indicate the existence of this disease. So various are its manifestations that no two persons suffering from this malady will find their conditions similar in more than a few particulars. One is troubled with excessive flatulency. Another is habitually costive. A third has no pain in stomach or bowels, but is troubled with a constant headache; he does not dream of dyspepsia—only his head troubles him. Another has a torpid liver, with frequent irritation from gall-stones. Still another individual complains only of palpitation and a feeling of heaviness. He is confident that he has heart-disease, and that his stomach is all right. A person of different habits will describe as his symptoms a feeling of “goneness,” eructations, pain in the stomach, times accompanied with sick headache. Some other patient will suffer great distress from cramp in the stomach and bilious vomiting. And thus successive individuals will complain of diarrhea, distress after eating, capricious appetite, canker, inflammation of the mouth, general weakness, nausea, loss of appetite, unnatural cravings, nervous debility, difficult breathing, catarrh, or hypochondriasis.
One very prominent feature of the disease is that the symptoms are exceedingly variable, so that the patient will be subjected alternately to each, or any combined number, of the above list. The poor victim imagines himself recovering, perhaps, when he observes a certain unpleasant symptom disappearing; but in vain is his hope, for he is soon beset by another equally painful one in some new locality.
Thousands of people are suffering from various local ailments, as catarrh, chronic headache, cold extremities, or similar difficulties, without the slightest suspicion that anything is wrong with their digestive apparatus, or that their disease is anything more than a local affection. Hence it is not strange that all their attempts at curing the disease are so unsuccessful. It is, in fact, more often than otherwise the case that the chronic dyspeptic has no pain in his digestive organs, for a long time after he begins to suffer materially from the results of impaired digestive powers and consequent defective nutrition.
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
-More than 400 Jews have perished at Mogador, Morocco, from cholera.
-The Methodist church in Iowa is said to have a church for every 2,000 inhabitants in that State.
-Paris has 65,000 houses, London 460,000 more than Paris, Berlin, Vienna and New York combined.
-There are in England and Wales 9,000 places in which Methodism has no preaching room or chapel.
-Upwards of 1,200 churches in Great Britain now use the unfermented wine, the true "fruit of the vine," and free from alcohol, for communion purposes.
-The number of Roman Catholic missionaries and teachers among the Indian tribes in the United States is 117.
-The Government of Russia has at last withdrawn its prohibition against missionary enterprise in Central Asia. The Synod of the Russian church has prepared to found extensive missions in all parts of Turkestan.
-The Methodist church of Canada is growing rapidly. Within four years it has received an increase of 20,499 members, and 134 ministers, besides sending out 137 more foreign missionaries than before. The total membership is now 113,153.
-The largest Sunday-school in the world is at Stockport, a town in England, with a population of only 53,014. The school building cost $100,000, and has about 90 teaching rooms. Since its opening, 5,084 teachers, and 90,804 scholars have been registered.
-A late estimate puts the number of Protestants in Spain at 30,000, but this embraces the large mass who call themselves Protestants simply because they oppose the priests. The Presbyterians, Independents, Wesleyans, Episcopalians, Baptists, and the German, Swiss, French and Dutch Committees are represented in Spain by about thirty regular congregations and one hundred evangelical laborers.
-Texas has an estimated population of about 2,000,000. Its religious statistics, carefully collected, show as follows: Baptists, 92,000; Methodist Episcopal, South, 90,000; Methodist Episcopal, North; 18,000; Methodist Protestant, 1,000; Presbyterian, Cumberland, 22,500; Presbyterian, Southern, 7,200; Presbyterian, Northern, 1,100; Christian, Campbellite, 11,000; Lutheran, Evangelical, 5,000; Roman Catholic, 10,000.
SECULAR NEWS.
—Over 132,000 persons are employed on the East India railroads.
—London possesses nine cemeteries, with a total area of 2,225 acres.
—Nearly 800 Chinamen left San Francisco for home by the City of Peking last week.
—There were 100 miles of tunnel in Great Britain in 1877, which costs about $50,000,000.
—It is said that the Rothschilds have agreed to loan Egypt $30,000,000 to clear off the floating debt.
—The yearly revenue of Denmark is about $12,920,000, and its expenditure $11,445,000. Its public debt in 1877 was $51,970,000.
—A disastrous railway collision occurred October 20, at Pontypridd, Eng. Twelve persons are reported killed and forty seriously wounded.
—In various cities of Germany boys under sixteen years of age are prohibited, under penalty of fine and imprisonment from smoking in public places.
—It is proposed to present a bill to the next Congress appropriating $200,000 from the sum now held by the War Department on account of the freedman's branch of the Adjutant General's office, for the building of school-houses for the colored children of the District of Columbia, and for establishing free schools for the higher instruction of the race.
—The New York Evening Post's correspondent at Rio Janeiro tells of a district in Brazil equal in extent to New England, middle Atlantic States, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana combined, that has been without rain since July, 1876. Brooks, springs and wells have long since dried up. Even river beds have now become dusty channels. The cattle, of which there were vast herds, have died of thirst. The people perishing for want of food and water, have fled from their homes, many of them dying, sometimes whole families together, before reaching a place of refuge. Those of them who escaped have overcrowded the cities of refuge so greatly as, in some cases, to multiply the population by five, and they are now herded together in the open streets, living like swine upon the scanty rations issued by the government, and upon such refuse as they can gather in the gutters. Well nigh naked, and utterly debased by their sufferings, they live in beastly immorality, not scrupling, even, to resort to cannibalism in some instances, while small-pox, yellow fever, dysentery and other diseases are sweeping them away by thousands.
Sacramento and Rocklin.
By B. A. Stephens
MET with the church in Sacramento October 4 to 9, and held eight meetings, celebrating the ordinances in connection with their church quarterly meeting. We trust their next missionary reports will make a better showing for this present quarter. Sacramento seems to be an important point, where good could be done by able and experienced laborers.
Found the church at Rocklin flourishing. A sister, who had been a '44 Adventist, had recently embraced the Sabbath. Held eight meetings, baptized three, and celebrated the ordinances. Both these churches have good Sabbath-schools. Are on our way to labor in Reno, Nevada.
B. A. STEPHENS.
Newcastle, Cal., Oct. 14, 1878.
Norway and Denmark.
FROM reports from Elder Matteson, we learn of his labors in Norway. At Haugesund he held one meeting, which was attended by about thirty, and nearly as many more listened in the street, the windows being open. Prejudice was removed, and a good impression made. In Stavanger a chapel was kindly offered by the Methodist where he spoke twice. About three hundred attended each meeting. First-day evening he spoke in the temperance hall to several hundred. Many of the people of this place seem candid, and willing to hear. He attended meetings among the Friends, Lutherans, and others, and preached to them. A two-days' voyage on Steamer took Elder M. to Denmark, where he reports having found the Brethren Brorsen. He expresses his thankfulness that the Lord has brought them safely across the ocean, and that they are now a help to him. They are both at work.
Texas.
Elder Kilgore writes that the interest from their meetings in Plano, is extending into the country. Some are convinced of the truth, and will obey. October 5, he was with the church at Dallas. The weather is beautiful, and the health of the community is some better. One death from yellow fever is reported at Dallas. Stringent measures are taken to prevent its spreading. The quarantine laws are imperative and the officers are vigilant; even the mails are burnt.
Converts to Romanism.
EIGHT columns and a half of the Whitehall Review is occupied in giving lists of converts to Romanism among the upper classes during this generation. It includes the names of a duke, three marquises, five earls, fifteen barons and lords, taking no account of courtesy titles; seven baronets, three knights, a general, an admiral, ten members of parliament, four queen's counsel, four professors, one hundred and sixty-eight beneficed clergymen, of whom sixty-seven have become priests or entered the Jesuit order, and one hundred and ninety gentlemen, sons of peers, fellows, etc., of whom fifty-one have become priests or Jesuits; also five duchesses, thirty-eight peeresses, wives of baronets and knights, etc., and thirty-three other ladies of position. The tendency of the converts to "go over" in whole families is noticeable, and in many cases there are three or four relatives who have taken orders in the Catholic church. Among the converts here mentioned, omitting those not specially distinguished except by rank, are Arnold of Rugby's son, Thomas; Burnand, author of "Happy Thoughts;" Bellew, the elocutionist; Miss Emily Bowles, the authoress; Mrs. Ross Church (Florence Marryat); Miss Cusack ("The Nun of Kenmare"); Miss Froude, niece of the historian; Miss Gladstone, sister of the ex-premier; Henry J. and Charles J. Karslake, who both entered the priesthood; the Rev. R. G. Osborne, son of "S. G. O.;" Paley's grandson, a professor at Cambridge; Coventry Patmore; Pugin, the architect; Adelaide Anne Proctor, Prof. Pepper; Whately's nephew, J. O'Fallon Pope, M. A., Cambridge; the Rev. Philip Rose ("Arthur Sketchley"); Mrs. Hope-Scott, Sir Walter's granddaughter; Elizabeth Thompson, painter of "The Roll Call," and Wilberforce's eldest son, an M. P.
Santa Rosa.
By W. M. Healey; J. D. Rice
THE tent meeting is receiving the blessing of God. Our 60-ft. tent is well filled each night. We are now in the midst of the Sabbath question; several have already begun the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord, and many more in the “valley of decision.” Last night the tent was full and many stood outside to listen to a discourse upon the sealing of God’s people. Not far from six hundred intelligent persons listened attentively, and we believe a goodly number of them are convinced. May God help them to move out upon the truth.
W. M. HEALEY,
J. D. RICE.
October 21, 1878.
State Quarterly Meeting.
The first quarterly meeting of the California State tract and missionary society, the year, was held in Oakland, October 19, 1878.
Of the eight districts in the State four were represented by directors, as follows: Wm. Harmon of district No. 1, John Mavity of No. 3, E. R. Gillett of No. 7, and M. C. Israel of No. 8.
After the usual opening exercises, minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted, after which the report of labor was read, as follows:—
[The report from district No. 3, though sent, has not been received.]
The subject of Health Annuals for 1879, was discussed, and the society voted to take 3,500 copies, the districts having ordered as follows: No. 1, 500; No. 3, 350; No. 7, 1,000; No. 8, 650; the remaining 1,000 copies are to be held by the State society to supply districts that have not yet ordered and for general purposes.
Voted, That the society indorse the new singing book, the Song Anchor, and recommend its use in all Sabbath-schools.
Interesting remarks regarding the ship work were made by Elder Israel and Brother Partridge, and it was
Voted, That the society furnish whatever reading matter is required for that branch of labor, at the discretion of those having the work in charge.
The importance of obtaining full reports of missionary labor was discussed, and the means for securing the same, and it was recommended that the directors visit every church in their respective districts at least once a quarter.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
E. R. Gillett, Vice President,
LILLIE D. ABBEY, Secretary.
Iowa Camp-Meeting.
By E. W. F.
The Iowa camp-meeting was held at Oskaloosa, Iowa, September 18-23. The camp was pleasantly situated and the meeting was fully as large as any previous meeting in this State. Brethren Butler and Haskell did most of the preaching. On the Sabbath our meetings were solemn and impressive. A good number of both backsliders and sinners came forward for prayers. The blessing of God was certainly with us. On Sunday, as usual, the time was largely devoted to theoretical subjects, for the benefit of those not of our faith.
Monday our hearts were made glad by the arrival of Brother White, who was on his way to Battle Creek. His greatly improved health was a source of joy to us all, and his good courage in God seemed to beget the same spirit in others. He was able to speak several times, with great clearness and power. The different missions received their share of attention. It was decided to raise $2,000 to pay the debt on the tract and missionary society and have a reserve fund to do business with. About $1,600 was pledged for this purpose, and $1,800 on the English mission. Other branches of the work were remembered. E. W. F.
Nebraska Camp-Meeting
By E. W. Farnsworth
This meeting, held at Seward, Neb., September 25-30, was one of great interest to the cause in that State. Nebraska and Iowa had been united in one Conference till this meeting was held; but God has greatly blessed Nebraska during the past few years, and our cause has grown quite strong, so it was thought best that a separate Conference should be organized. A State tract and missionary society was organized. The Nebraska Conference contains seventeen churches, with a membership of about three hundred and fifty, besides many that are scattered over the State. Over one hundred of these have embraced the truth during the past year. We see no reason why this may not soon become a strong Conference. The attractive climate and soil of Nebraska are drawing thousands of emigrants to its borders; and our brethren and sisters will find plenty to do to set the truth of God before them. But I know of no field where this can be done with better prospects of success. Our meeting was a good one. The brethren came with a mind to work, and God blessed them. Over one hundred subscribers were secured for our different periodicals by our tract and missionary workers. It was voted to raise a reserve fund of $1,000 for the tract and missionary society, and over $800 was pledged for that purpose. Twenty-six were baptized. Brother Shultz was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry. Our brethren parted with good courage, and praying for prosperity for this new Conference. E. W. F.
Song Anchor.
"THE SONG ANCHOR," for Sabbath-school and praise service, by J. E. White; in size and style like "Pure Gold" and books of that class. It is issued from the Pacific Press Publishing House, in Oakland, California. It deserves special consideration at the hands of Sunday-school people of this coast for these reasons: 1. Of the real excellence of the book as a book of Sunday-school music. 2. Of the most creditable style mechanically considered, in which it is gotten up. 3. That it is a California production, both composition and manufacture. Send for a copy and try it.—Cal. Christian Advocate.
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Address—THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, OAKLAND, CAL.
Reports.
By Editor
THE readers of the Signs will be interested in the report of the General Conference in this issue. Next week we hope to be able to give the conclusion of the proceedings of the Conference, also a report of the General Tract and Missionary Society.