The Indigestions, Or Diseases of the Digestive Organs Functionally Treated (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Indigestions, or Diseases of the Digestive Organs Functionally Treated

We may use Greek words, and call the above-named erring qualities of the digestion Bradypepsia, Apepsia, and Dyspepsia; only let it be remembered, that making the old adjectives into new substantives adds no one whit to our knowledge - nay, unless care be taken, runs some risk of being a stumbling-block to its progress. For when we have in this way given a proper name with a capital letter, we are apt to think (like a naturalist with a new butterfly.

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