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their previous torpor, this is the hot fit. 4. The ftomach and 

 upper inteftines have not acquired their natural quantity of fen- 

 forial power of irritation, which was previoufly exhaufted by vi- 

 olent action in confequence of the ftimulus of contagious 

 matter, and the heart and arteries remain torpid from defi- 

 cient excitement of the fenforial power of ailbciation, owing 

 to the too feeble actions of the ftomach. 5. The accumulation 

 of fenforial power of afTociation in confequence of the torpor of 

 the heart and arteries occafions a perpetual orgafm, or increafed 

 action of the capillaries. 



1 1 . From hence it may be deducted firft, that when the tor- 

 por of the ftomach firft occurs, either as a primary effect, or as 

 a fecondary link of fome afTociate train or circle of motions, a 

 general torpor of the fyftem fometimes accompanies it, which 

 conftitutes the cold fit of fever ; at other times no fuch general 

 torpor occurs, as during the operation of a weak emetic, or dur- 

 ing fea-ficknefs. 



Secondly. After a time it generally happens, that a torpor 

 of the ftomach ceafes, and its actions are renewed with increafe 

 of vigour by accumulation of fenforial power during its quief- 

 cence j as after the operation of a weak emetic, or at the inter- 

 vals of fea-ficknefs, or after the paroxyfm of an intermittent 

 fever. 



Thirdly. The ftomach is fometimes much flower in recov- 

 ering from a previous torpor, and is then the remote caufe of 

 continued fever with weak pulfe ; which is owing to a torpor 

 of the heart and arteries, produced in confequence of the defi- 

 cient excitement of the power of aflbciation by the too weak 

 actions of the ftomach ; and to an orgafm of the capillaries of 

 the other parts of the fyftem, in confequence of the accumula- 

 tion of fenforial power occafioned by the inactivity of the heart 

 and arteries. 



Fourthly. The torpor of the ftomach is fometimes fo com~ 

 plete, that probably the origin of its nerves is likewife affected, 

 and then no accumulation of fenforial power occurs. In this 

 cafe, the patient dies for want of nourimment ; either in three 

 or four weeks, of the inirritative fever ; or without quick pulfe, 

 by wh,it we have called parefis irritativa. Or he continues ma- 

 ny years in a ftate of total debility. When this torpor fudden- 

 ly commences, the patient generally fuffers epileptic fits or 

 temporary infanity from the difagreeable fenfation of fo great a 

 torpor df the ftomach ; which alfo happens fometimes at the 

 eruption of the diftinct fmall-pox ; whence we have termed this 

 difeafe anorexia epiieptica. See Clafs II, 2. 2. I. and III. i. I. 

 7. and Suppl. I. 14. 3. 



Fifthly, 



