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teeth ; uneasy and agitated sleep, and great thirst. 

 Sometimes somnambulism renders the patient tim- 

 id. Fainting, vertigo, and tingling of the ears, aug- 

 ment the morbid state of the sufferer. The cough 

 is dry and convulsive, sometimes stertorous and 

 even suffocating, respiration is difficult, and some- 

 times attended with hiccough ; speech is interrupt- 

 ed, and in some instances entirely suppressed. 

 Tbe mouth is frothy, and there is palpitation of 

 the heart ; the pulse is hard, frequent, rapid and 

 intermittent. 



The belly is tumid aud troubled with borboryg- 

 mi ; there are eructations, naqsea, reaching to vom- 

 it, and vomiting. At one time there is no appetite, 

 at another it is so great that the patient is compel- 

 led to take more food than ordiuary.(4) The belly 

 swells and is the seat of severe pains, there is a 

 sense of pricking and tearing which is not fixed but 

 wanders over the whole adominal cavity ; these suf- 

 ferings are aggravated when the stomach is empty, 

 and immediately cease on taking food. The bow- 

 els are sometimes relaxed, sometimes costive. 



The urine is crude and turbid; the excrements 

 fetid ; cardialgia afflicts the patient and sometimes 

 destroys him ;(5) the body is emaciated, though 

 the patient eats much : and violent itching of the 

 arms sometimes occasions fainting. 



At other times tenesmus aggravates the pains 

 of these parts. Languor, anxiety, listnessness and 

 extravagance in conduct, discourse and the intel- 



