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of the heart itself; and when it happens that the one or other 

 is discovered by the symptoms of palpitation or syncope, no 

 more will be implied than that the remedies of pneumonic in- 

 flammation should be employed with greater diligence. 



From dissections, which show the heart and pericardium 

 affected with erosions, ulcerations, and abscesses, we discover, 

 that these parts had been before affected with inflammation ; 

 and that in cases where no symptoms of pneumonic inflamma- 

 tion had appeared : it may therefore be alleged, that those 

 inflammations of the heart and pericardium should be considered 

 as diseases independent of the pneumonic. This indeed is just : 

 but the history of such cases proves, that those inflammations 

 had been of a chronic kind, and hardly discovering themselves 

 by any peculiar symptoms ; or, if attended with symptoms 

 marking an affection of the heart, these were, however, such as 

 have been known frequently to arise from other causes than 

 inflammation. There is, therefore, upon the whole, no room 

 for our treating more particularly of the inflammation of the 

 heart or pericardium. 



CHAP. VIII. OF THE GASTRITIS, OR INFLAMMA- 

 TION OF THE STOMACH. 



CCCLXXXIV. Among the inflammations of the abdominal 

 region, I have given a place in our Nosology to the Peritonitis ; 

 comprehending under that title, not only the inflammations af- 

 fecting the peritonaeum lining the cavity of the abdomen, but 

 also those affecting the extensions of this membrane in the 

 omentum and mesentery. It is not, however, proposed to treat 

 of them here, because it is very difficult to say by what symp- 

 toms they are always to be known ; and farther, because when 

 known, they do not require any remedies beside those of inflam- 

 mation in general. I proceed, therefore, to treat of those in- 

 flammations which, affecting viscera of peculiar functions, both 

 give occasion to peculiar symptoms, and require some peculiari- 

 ties in the method of cure ; and I shall begin with the inflam- 

 mation of the stomach. 



CCCLXXXV. The inflammation of the stomach is of two 



