410 DISEASES CLASS IV. 2. 1. IT. 



without opening them; for he will for B a time seem to be still 

 going forwards; which is difficult to explain. See Sect. XX. 6. 

 In the beginning of some fevers, along with incessant vomit- 

 ing, the patients complain of disagreeable tastes in their mouths, 

 and disagreeable odours; which are to be ascribed to the gene- 

 ral debility of the great trains, and tribes of associated irrita- 

 tive motions, and to be explained from their direct sympathy 

 with the decreased action of a sick stomach, or from the less se- 

 cretion of sensorial power in the brain. These organs of sense 

 are constantly stimulated into action by the saliva or by the air; 

 hence, like the sense of hunger, when they are torpid from want 

 of stimulus, or from want of sensorial power, pain, or disagreea- 

 ble sensation ensues, as of hunger, or faintness, or sickness in one 

 case; and the ideas of bad tastes or odours in the other. This 

 accords with the laws of causation, Sect. IV. 5. 



17. Puisus mollis in vomitione. The softness of the pulse in 

 the act of vomiting is caused by direct association between the 

 heart and the stomach; as explained in Sect. XXV. 17. A great 

 slowness of the pulsation of the heart sometimes attends sick- 

 ness, and even with intermissions of it, as in the exhibition of too 

 great a dose of digitalis. 



18. Puisus intermittens a ventriculo. When the pulse first be- 

 gins to intermit, it is common for the patient to bring up a little 

 air from his stomach; which if he accomplishes before the inter- 

 mission occurs, always prevents it; whence that this debility 

 of the heart is owing to the direct association of its motions with 

 those of the stomach is well evinced. See Sect. XXV. 17. 



I this morning saw Mr. , who has long had at times 



an unequal pulse, with indigestion and flatulency, and occasional 

 asthma; he was seized two days ago with diarrhea, and this 

 morning with sickness, and his pulse was every way unequal. 

 After an emetic his pulse still continued very intermittent 

 and unequal. He then took some breakfast of toast and butter, 

 and tea, and to my great surprise his pulse became immediately 

 perfectly regular, about 100 in a minute, and not weak, by this 

 stimulus on his stomach. 



A person, who for many years had had a frequent intermis- 

 sion of his pulse, and occasional palpitation of his heart, was re- 

 lieved from them both for a time, by taking about four drops of 

 a saturated solution of arsenic three or four times a day for three 

 or four days. As this intermission of the pulse is occasioned by 

 the direct association of the motions of the heart with those of 

 the stomach, the indication of cure must be to strengthen the ac- 

 tion of the stomach by the bark. Spice. Moderate quantities 



