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DYSPEPSY, OR INDIGESTION. SYMPTOMS--Are flatulency, defective appetite, palpitations of the heart, painful distention of the stomach and bowels. The last named symptoms greatly increased by eating a hearty meal or drinking spirituous liquors. This disease also extends its pernicious influence to the mind, which often becomes desponding and irritable, and the poor sufferer exhibits a peculiar anxiety of countenance. The sleep becomes disturbed and the urine high colored. CAUSES.--This disease originates in a great variety of causes. It arises in a great many instances, from a diseased state of the Liver as may be fully seen under that head. This lingering and painfully distressing malady is seldom to be met with among the Indians, owing, we suppose to the great simplicity of their diet, and the liberal exercise which they so generally take in the hunt, the chase, &c.; and the little use made by them of mercury in any form, or of strong minerals of any kind. This disease, on the contrary, appears to increase yearly among the whites. It seems to be a scourge upon the more refined portion of the human species, and one which refinement with all its charms, utterly fails to render agreeable, or in any respect desirable. It is to be found among all ranks and sexes; but when we meet with an individual who is afflicted with this torturing malady, and examine into his or her past life, the cause is generally obvious. An excessive use of spirituous liquors of any kind, of tobacco, mercurial preparations, and other poisonous mineral substances used for medicines--improper diet, whether in kind or quality, inactivity of body, intense study, uneasiness, anxiety or grief, are all calculated in their nature to produce this painful disease. Dr. Carter, when speaking of the stomach, says. "It may be considered the great labratory or chemical workshop of the living power--where chemical operations upon our food and drink, are regularly performed, without effort, toil or study." Dr. Carter's statement respecting the stomach, shows at once the great necessity of regulating the food and drink according to the strength of this "chemical workshop."--The usual practice of over loading the stomach with high-seasoned, indigestible food, and a too free use of ardent spirits, injures its tone, and renders it incapable of performing its functions in a healthy manner. If Indigestion arises from a diseased state of the liver, there will also be felt a dead, heavy pain in the right side, also in the shoulder, and back of the neck. The urine on being deposited in a urinal or pot, will have in the bottom when cool, a reddish colored seddiment. The complection will become of a tawny or yellowish hue. The feet and hands, when held in one position, for a short time will become asleep for want of a free circulation of the blood. Great uneasiness will be felt throughout the whole system, and it is sometimes attended with vomiting. When these last named symptoms occur, you must refer to the proper treatment of the disease of the liver, &c. TREATMENT.--For common Dyspepsy, the patient must first sum up all the resolution which it is in his power to command, in order to regulate his diet with that rigidness. which is indispensably necessary, where a cure is to be sought for in this disease--the diet must be simple, such as gruel, a little rice prepared in clear water, and salted just sufficient to make it palatable, a cracker with a glass of spring water, or some similar food. It must be taken frequently and in small quantities, as fasting too long does great injury in Dyspepsy, which injury is much increased by the common practice of over-loading the stomach after long fasting. The use of animal food must be entirely abandoned if the sufferer wishes to obtain relief. To be alternately loading the stomach with purges, animal food, and spirituous liquors, is only adding fuel to fire, and will ultimately end in the death of the patient if persisted in. The patient should first take a purge, anti-billious pills will be most suitable. These should be taken on going to bed--the number for a dose refer to that head--if they should not operate by morning they should be aided by half a dose of the same pills or by castor oil. After the bowels have been cleansed in the above manner, take a portion of the anti-dyspeptic syrup or hepatic pills morning and night. For directions how to prepare either of the above named medicines look under their different heads. While using the anti-dyspeptic syrup or hepatic pill, you should also use a mixture or syrup made by taking a strong decoction of the inside bark of white hickory, one pint well strained, to which add an equal quantity of soot, a pint or more of honey, of this mixture take a tea spoonful morning and night. A free use of charcoal, taken in water or otherwise, will be found of great benefit. For directions for preparing charcoal refer to that head. During the above course, the patient should take moderate exercise in the open air, if the strength will allow, and be very careful to avoid any thing either in eating or drinking, that will produce aggravation of the symptoms. The bowels, if they become costive, (which however is not apt to be the case while using the anti-dyspeptic syrup or hepatic pills,) must be regulated by the use of mild and cooling clysters. When the stomach and bowels have been kept free from irritation for a length of time by the above treatment; when the sleep becomes tranquil: the spirits revived, and the tongue assumes a clear and healthy appearance, a little mutton or beef soup may be taken. or chicken well boiled and the soup thickened with a little flour. If this diet should produce an uneasiness in the stomach or bowels, the quantity taken should be diminished, and if it still aggravates the symptoms, its use must be entirely discontinued, and recourse must again be had to the former simple dish--gruels, &c. But if the stomach will bear light meals of the above soups, the quantity may be gradually increased. but it must be done with great caution.I have known several persons relieved of this distressing complaint by the following simple remedy, after other remedies had been tried and had failed: Take of cob ashes, steel dust, and common salts, of each a table spoonful, mix them well together, and add a sufficient quantity of honey to wet it or stick it together. Take of this mixture what will make three common sized pills morning and night, and noon if the stomach will bear it. At the same time take charcoal in water, prepared as directed under that head, and regulate the diet as before directed. I have known this to cure two cases of dyspepsy after the prescriptions of a physician in high standing had been tried and failed.