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sensation and voluntary motion. It became necessary 

 for me to support her in my arms. I perceived within 

 five minutes that her stomach was considerably acid» Im- 

 mediately on stopping, by the aid of brandy applied to 

 her nose and face, she vomited freely and became speed- 

 ily well. Her skin throughout was cold like that of 

 a dead person, and no warmth was restored till the vom- 

 iting took place. From various circumstances, I am sat- 

 isfied that her stomach was entirely composed previous 

 to the occurrence, and that the acid was formed after- 

 wards, and in consequence of the shock abovementioned. 



5. Sudden changes of the weather, or standing in the 

 open air with wet feet, in cold and damp weather, till a 

 general and considerable chilliness is experienced, has a 

 similar effect, on the stomachs of many dyspeptics. In 

 proof of this assertion, I would alledge the following case. 



A gentleman who had been for ten years troubled at 

 intervals, with severe debility of the stomach, and much 

 acid in that viscus, being in good health, one day in the 

 month of April last, instead of wearing his boots as he 

 had uniformly done for six months preceding, wore shoes. 

 Though he was out of doors but a short time, yet he ex- 

 perienced in two or three hours chilliness, and acid in the 

 stomach. A severe headache ensued, and though he 

 put on his boots very soon after the commencement of 

 his ill feelings, and kept on an abundance of clothing, yet 

 they rapidly increased ; so that he found it necessary ta 

 go to bed in the beginning of the evening. Within fif- 

 teen minutes he had several smart agues. These were 

 succeeded by very severe cholic, and extreme acidity in 

 the stomach, and in a little time violent vomiting was in- 

 duced. 



There was very little appearance of wind in the stom- 

 ach or intestines, nor any bile vomited up. During the 

 vomiting, a copious sweat broke out, which by the addi- 

 tion of bed clothes, was kept up through the night. The 

 next morning the patient was nearly as well as usual. Af- 

 ter an attentive examination of this case, I could not hes- 

 itate to attribute the head ache,, the agues, and the cholic, 

 to the acidity of the stomach, and this to a morbid secre- 

 tion, brought on from sympathy between the secreting ves- 



