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kinds, Phlegmonic, or Erythematic.* The first may be seated 

 in what is called the Nervous coat of the stomach, or in the 

 peritonaeum investing it. The second is always seated in the 

 villous coat and cellular texture immediately subjacent. 



CCCLXXXVI. The phlegmonic inflammation of the stom- 

 ach, or what has been commonly treated of under the title of 

 Gastritis, is known by an acute pain in some part of the region 

 of the stomach, attended with pyrexia, with frequent vomiting, 

 especially upon occasion of any thing being taken down into the 

 stomach, and frequently with hickup. The pulse is commonly 

 small and hard ; and there is a greater loss of strength in all 

 the functions of the body, than in the case of almost any other 

 inflammation. 



CCCLXXXVII. This inflammation may be produced by 

 various causes, as by external contusion ; by acrids of various 

 kinds taken into the stomach ; frequently by very cold drink 

 taken into it while the body is very warm ; and sometimes by 

 over-distention, from the having taken in a large quantity of 

 food of difficult digestion. All these may be considered as ex- 

 ternal causes ; but the disease sometimes arises also from inter- 

 nal causes not so well understood. It may arise from inflam- 

 mations of the neighbouring parts communicated to the stom- 

 ach, and is then to be considered as a symptomatic affection 

 only. It may arise also from various acrimonies generated 

 within the body, either in the stomach itself, or in other parts, 

 and poured into the cavity of the stomach. These are causes 

 more directly applied to the stomach ; but there are perhaps 

 others originating elsewhere, and affecting the stomach only 

 sympathetically. Such may be supposed to have acted in the 

 case of putrid fevers and exanthematic pyrexia ; in which, upon 

 dissection, it has been discovered that the stomach had been 

 affected with inflammation. 



CCCLXXXVIII. From the sensibility of the stomach and 

 its communication with the rest of the system, it will be obvious 

 that the inflammation of this organ, by whatever cause pro- 



* This is a new term ; but whoever considers what is said in CCLXXIV., will, I ex- 

 pect, perceive the propriety, and even the necessity of it. 



