dyspepsy
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Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas."
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the way I figger it, not havin' vittles reg'lar has give me dyspepsy, and dyspepsy has made me cranky, and not safe to be squdged too fur.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
If they ain't they ought to be," says I. "And to-morrer the dyspepsy doctors'll do business enough to give us a commission.
From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln
So Dangerfield's little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Should such intense exertion of the mind in youth not lead to insanity or immediate disease, it predisposes to dyspepsy, hysteria, hypochondriasis, and affections allied to insanity, and which are often its precursors.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew
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