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rial, and pufh it to fome lefs fenfible part of the ftomach, or in- 

 to the middle of the contained aliment. 



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

 the undigefted aliment, or from a part of the ftomach being al- 

 ready dead, and by its weight or coldnefs affeHng the fiirviving 

 part with difagreeable fenfation. The pain about the upper 

 orifice of the ftomach is the proximate caufe, the too great or 

 too little action of the fibres of this part of the ftomach is the re- 

 mote caufe, the action of the mufcles ufed in infpiration is the 

 proximate effect, and the repercuffion of the offending material 

 is the remote efFecl:. 



Hiccough is fometimes fympathetic, occafioned by the pain 

 of gravel in the kidney or ureter, as in Clafs IV. i. i. 7. and 

 is fometimes a fymptom of epilepfy or reverie, as in Seel:. XIX. 2. 



M. M. Oil of cinnamon from one drop gradually increafed 

 to ten, on fugar, or on chalk. Opium, Blifter. Emetic. 



7. Crapula ventriculi. Indigeftible fubftances in the ftomach. 

 This frequently occurs in children, who are reftrained by their 

 ill-adtive friends from fruit or other fweet things ; and thus the 

 rational mind is taught to fuperintend the fatiety of the fenfation 

 of the fenfe of hunger, or of the pleafure of the palate, which 

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

 children are liable to fwallow more plums and cherries than 

 their ftomachs can digeft , and if thefe run haftily into ferment- 

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

 venient diftention of the ftomach, as well as a difagreeable fenfa- 

 tion, which generally terminates in ejecting the offending mat- 

 ter by vomiting. 



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

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

 violent fermentation as by diftention to deftroy the animal. 

 Whence it has been cuftomary with fome to perforate the fir It 

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

 afierted, that he witneffed about twenty beafts in this fituation, 

 two were dead before the medicine could be adminiftered, but 

 to the other eighteen he direcled half a pint of fpirits, called gin 

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

 all parted with much air by eructation, and recovered. An in- 

 genious gentleman has lately put a flexible pipe down the efoph- 

 agus into the diftended ftomach of thefe animals with certain 

 fuccefs, as related in fome late publication. A flexible tube for 

 this purpofe might be made of wire wrapped round a flick about 

 half an inch in diameter, and afterwards covered with leather. 



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

 believed to pafs through him at fchool, fome weeks afterwards, 



but 



