330 STOMACH AND INTESTINES. SECT. XXV. 17" 



rnach, and is relievable by aromatics, eficntial oils, 

 alcohol, or opium. 



The intruiion of a gall-done into the commort 

 bile-duel from the gall-bladder -is fometimes mif- 

 taken for a pain of the ftomach, as neither of them 

 are attended with fevef ; but in the palfage of a 

 gall-fione, the pain is confined to a lefs fpace, 

 -which is exactly where the common bile-duel enters 

 the .duodenum, as explained in Section XXX. 3. 

 Whereas in this gaftrodynia the pain is diffufed over 

 the whole ftomach ; and, like other difeafes from 

 torpor,' the pulfe is weaker, and the extremities 

 coktef, and the general debility greater, than in 

 the paffage of a gall ftone ; for-in the former the 

 debility is the confequence of the pain, in the 

 latter it is the caufe of it. 



Though the firft fits of the gout, I believe, com- 

 mence with a torpor of the liver ; and the ball of 

 the toe becomes inflamed inftead of the mem- 

 branes of the liver in confequence of this torpor, 

 as a coryza or catarrh frequently fucceeds a long 

 cxpofure of the feet to cold, as in fnow, or on a 

 moid brick-floor; yet in old or exhaufteJ conftf- 

 tutions, which have been long habituated to its 

 attacks, it fometimes commences with a torpor of the 

 llomach, and is transferable to every membrance of 

 the body. When the gout begins with torpor of the 

 iiomach, a painful feniation of cold occurs, which the 

 patient compares to ice, with weak pulfe, cold extre- 

 mities, and ficknefs ; this in its flighter degree is re- 

 lievable by fpice, wine, or opium; in its greater 

 degree it is fucceeded by fudden death, which is 

 owing to the fytnpathy of the ftomach with the 

 heart, as explained below. 



if the ftomach becomes inflamed in confequence 

 of this gouty torpor of it, or in confequence of its 

 fympathy with fome other part, the danger is lefs. 

 A ficknefs and vomiting continues many days, or 



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