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cases, bleeding is inadmissible ; all that can be done being to 

 avoid irritation, and to throw into the stomach what quantity of 

 acids, and of acescent aliments, it shall be found to bear. 



In some conditions of the body, in which this disease arises, 

 the Peruvian bark and bitters may seem to be indicated ; but 

 an erythematic state of the stomach does not commonly allow of 

 them. 



CHAP. IX. OF THE ENTERITIS, OR INFLAMMA- 

 TION OF THE INTESTINES. 



CCCCIV. The inflammation of the intestines, like that of 

 the stomach, may be either phlegmonic, or erythematic. But, 

 on the subject of the latter, I have nothing to add to what has 

 been said in the last chapter ; and shall here therefore treat of 

 the phlegmonic inflammation only " I am not certain that a 

 typhus or nervous fever constantly accompanies enteritis ; that 

 would give a different view of the disease, and make it be con- 

 sidered only as symptomatic of fever; but I have, in my defini- 

 tion, employed the words Pyrexia typhodes, because the in- 

 flammations of the stomach and intestines are always accompa- 

 nied with a more remarkable loss of strength than any other 

 inflammation, and this is liable to mislead us in practice." 



CCCCVI. This inflammation may be known to be present, 

 by a fixed pain of the abdomen, attended with pyrexia, costive- 

 ness, and vomiting. Practical writers mention the pain in this 

 case as felt in different parts of the abdomen, according to the 

 different seat of the inflammation ; and so, indeed, it sometimes 

 happens ; but very often the pain spreads over the whole belly, 

 and is felt more especially about the navel. 



CCCCVII. The Enteritis and Gastritis arise from like 

 causes ; but the former, more readily than the latter, proceeds 

 from cold applied to the lower extremities, or to the belly itself. 

 The enteritis has likewise its own peculiar causes, as superven- 

 ing upon the spasmodic colic, incarcerated hernia, and volvu- 

 lus. 



CCCCVIII. Inflammations of the intestines have the same 

 terminations as those of the stomach ; and, in both cases, the 



