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patients who, for a therapeutic purpose, abuse of alka- 

 line medications. 



Let us come back to the physioanatomical facts. We 



have just seen that vegetative sensation does not need 

 special fibres, united to the sensory fibres of the cerebro 

 spinal axis, to explain the peculiarities of the sensations 

 of the vegetative life; this does not mean, however, that 



