Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 92 CHAPTER III. HABITS OF SOCIAL LIFE LEADING TO INDIGESTION. Section 1.—Eating too little. Section 2.—Eating too much. Section 3.—Sedentary habits. Section 4.—Tight lacing. Section 5.—Compression of the epigastrium by shoemakers. Section 6.—Sexual excess. Section 7.—Solitude. Section 8.—Intellectual exertion. Section 9.—Want of employment. SecTion 10.—Abuse of purgatives. Section 11.—Abuse of alcohol. Section 12.— Tobacco. Section 13.—Tea. Section 14.—Opinm. In the cases cited in the last chapter the causes of the indigestion were, as a rule, out of the power of the patient to modify. Nobody for their own pleasure falls into poverty, catches cholera, is ruined in trade, lives upon potatoes, is worried by clients, nurses the dying, i