water-brash

If much sugar or salt is used my stomach gets very sour, and water-brash is the result.

He had a sour and sore stomach, and heartburn, and the water-brash, and wind, and colic, and wonderful misery of body and mind.

No, indeed, my Lady; my son Bob—Mr. Hickman O'Reilly, I mean—God forgive me, I'm sure they take trouble enough to teach me that name—he's got a kind of a water-brash, what we call a pyrosis.

Water-brash is a term applied to eructation of a colourless, almost tasteless fluid, probably saliva, which has collected in the lower part of the oesophagus from failure of the cardiac sphincter of the stomach to relax; reversed oesophageal peristalsis causing regurgitation.

Water-brash, 231. spaniels, 507. retrievers, how broken, 508. observe struck bird, 518. qualities in, 508. dog taught to plunge in, 512.