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or villous portion without some mark of affection also. 

 On the contrary, in Crib-biting, which is evidently an 

 eructation of a small quantity of gas, I should, reason- 

 ing analogically, be prompted to believe that the secre- 

 tions themselves might become vitiated, and that this 

 affection, as well as some other of the symptoms 

 of morbid condition, were purely dyspeptic, and de- 

 pendent on an altered state of the gastric secretion . 



Worms within the stomach and intestines, but prin- 

 cipally the latter, will often injure the condition, and 

 produce irregular appetite, costiveness, with a mucous 

 covering to the dung-balls when they pass, and a star-- 

 ing coat. 



The Treatment of Morbid Condition. 



From what has been said it will be evident that as 

 many different circumstances may produce defective 

 condition, so it would in every instance be favourable 

 to the removal of it were the exciting causes clearly 

 ascertained, for to that we should direct our attention 

 principally. If it were purely local, for instance, as 

 arising from impure air or bad water, musty oats, 

 mow-burnt hay, &c. &c., such causes must be imme- 

 diately removed. Wlien the case is more constitutional, 

 internal remedies acting on the alimentary canal afford 

 the most ready and certain means of relief. When the 

 morbid condition is consequent on an attack of cold 

 on the skin, whereby the capillaries suffer a sudden 

 translation of their blood into the interior of the body 

 to the evident injury of the organs thus congested by 

 these means, the remedial plan is still best promoted 

 by stimulating the stomach into a sympathy with the 

 exterior surface ; nauseating medicines in the human 



