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of abdominal complaints can arise, such as weakness 

 of the stomach, heart-burn, acidities, swelling, eruc- 

 tations, costiveness, which, complicated with derange- 

 ments of the nervous system, obstruct the liver, the 

 spleen , the mesentery, the epiploon, produce biliary 

 concretions, jaundice in all its degrees, hypocondriasis 

 with its visions, fluent and blind piles, head-ach, 

 vertigo, and all sorts of arthritic, herpetic and uri- 

 nary complaints. 



Hypocondriacal affections appear no where under 

 more various forms than at Carlsbad 5 and the misan- 

 thropic and pusillanimous feelings of those unfortu- 

 nate beings, passing, without known motives, from 

 hope to despondency, from moroseness to exaltation, 

 deserve the greatest indulgence and sympathy , When 

 we see so many hepatic and splenetic patients whose 

 temper depends entirely on the state of their abdo- 

 minal functions , we feel disposed to forgive the 

 materialism of the ancients, who placed the seat of 

 so many passions in the liver; we remember unwil- 

 lingly the Fervens difficili bile tumetjecur, the jecur 

 ulcerosum of Horace, as synonimous of jealousy and 

 violent love, and we understand how they could say 

 that men splene rident, felle irascunt , jecore amant, 

 pulmone j act ant w , corde sttpiunt. 



