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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.