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terial, and push it to some less sensible part of the stomach, or 

 into the middle of the contained aliment. 



At the end of fatal fevers it may arise from the acrimony of 

 the undigested aliment, or from a part of the stomach being 

 already dead, and by its weight or coldness affecting the surviv- 

 ing part with disagreeable sensation. The pain about the upper 

 orifice of the stomach is the proximate cause, the too great or too 

 little action of the fibres of this part of the stomach is the remote 

 cause, the action of the muscles used in inspiration is the proxi- 

 mate effect, and the repercussion of the offending material is the 

 remote effect. 



Hiccough is sometimes sympathetic, occasioned by the pain 

 of gravel in the kidney or ureter, as in Class IV. 1. 1.7. and is 

 sometimes a symptom of epilepsy or reverie, as in Sect. XIX. 2. 



M. M. Oil of cinnamon from one drop gradually increased to 

 ten, on sugar, or on chalk. Opium. Blister. Emetic. 



7. Crapula venlriculi. Indigestible substances in the stomach. 

 This frequently occurs in children, who are restrained by their 

 ill-active friends from fruit or other sweet things; and thus the 

 rational mind is taught to superintend the satiety of the sensation 

 of the sense of hunger, or of the pleasure of the palate, which 

 is contrary to nature, and a much more erroneous guide. Hence 

 children are liable to swallow more plums and cherries than 

 their stomachs can digest; and if these run hastily into fermenta- 

 tion, much air, or gas, is generated; and produces an incon- 

 venient distention of the stomach, as well as a disagreeable sensa- 

 tion, which generally terminates in ejecting the offending matter 

 by vomiting. 



In cows which have eaten too much young clover, the saccha- 

 rine and mucilaginous matter, which it contains, runs into so 

 violent fermentation as by distention to destroy the animal. 

 Whence it has been customary with some to perforate the first 

 stomach, and thus let out the air. Dr. White, of Edinburgh, 

 asserted, that he witnessed about twenty beasts in this situation, 

 two were dead before the medicine could be administered, but 

 to the other eighteen he directed half a pint of spirits, called gin 

 or whisky, mixed with as much water, to be given; and they all 

 parted with much air by eructation, and recovered. An ingenious 

 gentleman has lately put a flexible pipe down the oesophagus into 

 the distended stomach of these animals with certain success, as 

 related in some late publication. A flexible tube for this pur- 

 pose might be made of wire wrapped round a stick about half an 

 inch in diameter, and afterwards covered with leather. 



A boy about 8 years old swallowed a halfpenny, which was 

 believed to pass through him at school, some weeks afterwards, 



