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ceasing, as that paroxysm abated, and went out. These 

 are a gnawing* sensation in the stomach, a sensation of 

 emptiness, severe hunger shortly after eating, irregular 

 appetite, unusual craving of food, cholic, spasms of the 

 intestines, tetanus, costiveness, diarrhea, acid eructations, 

 vertigo, headache, decay of teeth, tremor of the hands, 

 pai)is in the legs, cutaneous eruptions, cough, catarrh, 

 pulmonary consumptions, and low spirits, and all the other 

 morbid affections of the mind. All symptoms are great- 

 ly aggravated by an acid state of the stomach. All the 

 above morbid effects in dyspeptic persons are occasioned 

 by acidity exclusively, except cholic, sp'asms of the in- 

 testines, tetanus, costiveness, diarrhea, vertigo, head- 

 ache, cutaneous eruptions, cough, catarrh, and pulmona- 

 ry consumptions. I know not that cholic in adults is usu- 

 ally attributed to acidity, but have met with several 

 marked cases of it. The only case of tetanus occasion- 

 ed by it v/hich I have seen, or heard of, is the following, 

 Mrs. — , the lady before mentioned, who was so remark- 

 ably troubled v/ith acidity in the stomach, being extreme- 

 ly afflicted with her old complaint, and her mind being 

 irritable and fickle, was carried out one morning in the 

 month of March, some years ago, about four miles from 

 home, to spend the day at the house of a friend. Some 

 hours before evening she became anxious about her chil- 

 dren, and in spite of all remonstrances, she refused to 

 w^ait for her carriage, and returned on foot. The weath- 

 er was rav/ and damp, and she was dressed with the 

 clothes of summer. Early in the evening she complain- 

 ed of being unwell, but as she was frequently indispos- 

 ed, no particular attention was paid to her, till about mid- 

 jiightj when I was sent for. Her husband was absent, 

 and there was no member of the family present who was 

 qualified to direct, or to judge discreetly about her case. 

 Some neighbours had been called in, and from them I 

 learned what has been already related, and became satis- 

 lied that her complaints were owing to excessive disor- 

 der of the stomach, induced by unusual fatigue and chil- 

 liness. She was affected with tetanus to a very severe 

 degree, so that her head, neck, limbs, and every part of 

 her bod}^ were perfectly rigid. A case apparently more 



