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can be little doubt of the stomach being affected with the same 

 inflammation that has appeared in the fauces. Even when no 

 inflammation appears in the fauces, yet if some degree of pain 

 be felt in the stomach, if there be a want of appetite, an anxiety, 

 frequent vomiting, an unusual sensibility with respect to acrids, 

 some thirst, and frequency of pulse, there will then be room to 

 suspect an erythematic inflammation of the stomach ; and we 

 have known such symptoms, after some time, discover their 

 cause more clearly by the appearance of the inflammation in the 

 fauces or mouth. 



Erythematic inflammation is often disposed to spread from 

 one place to another on the same surface ; and, in doing so, to 

 leave the place it had first occupied. Thus, such an inflamma- 

 tion has been known to spread successively along the whole 

 course of the alimentary canal, occasioning in the intestines 

 diarrhoea, and in the stomach vomitings ; the diarrhoea ceasing 

 when the vomitings come on, or the vomitings upon the coming 

 on of the diarrhoea. 



CCCCI. When an erythematic inflammation of the stomach 

 shall be discovered, it is to be treated differently, according to 

 the difference of its causes and symptoms. 



When it is owing to acrid matters taken in by the mouth, 

 and when these may be supposed still present in the stomach, 

 they are to be washed out by throwing in a large quantity of 

 warm and mild liquids, and by exciting vomiting. At the same 

 time, if the nature of the acrimony and its proper corrector be 

 known, this should be thrown in ; or if a specific corrector be 

 not known, some general demulcents should be employed. 



CCCCII. These measures, however, are more suited to pre- 

 vent the inflammation than to cure it after it has taken place. 

 When this last may be supposed to be the case, if it be attended 

 with a sense of heat, with pain and pyrexia, according to the 

 degree of these symptoms, the measures proposed in CCCXCIII. 

 are to be more or less employed. 



CCCCIII. When an erythematic inflammation of the sto- 

 mach has arisen from internal causes, if pain and pyrexia ac- 

 company the disease, some bleeding, in persons not otherwise 

 weakened, may be employed : but, as the affection often arises 

 in putrid diseases, and in convalescents from fever, so, in these 



