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been sick at the beginning of Wet weather, and still continues 

 so. Is this owing to a sympathy of the mucous membrane of 

 the stomach with the mechanical relaxation of the external cuti- 

 cle by a moister atmosphere, as is seen in the corrugated cuticle 

 of the hands of washer- women? or does it sympathize with the 

 mucous membrane of the lungs, which must be affected along 

 with the mucus on its surface by the respiration of a moister 

 atmosphere? 



