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body as to engage the attention of com- 

 mon medical observers ; and here I spoke 

 of pain, sickness, swooning, rigors, con- 

 vulsions, delirium, and tetanus. 



Lastly, in considering the effects result- 

 ing from these sympathies, I shewed how 

 the nervous disturbance might affect the 

 feelings and functions of the digestive or- 

 gans, and how the disorder so induced, might 

 by a reflected operation, augment the 

 former and greatly and variously disturb the 

 whole system. 



This subject had indeed particularly 

 attracted the attention of Mr. Hunter, who 

 believed that the stomach had a direct sym- 

 pathy with remote organs and parts of the 

 body ; whilst he equally observed, how it 

 might reciprocally affect and be affected by 

 the head. It was on this account, proba- 

 bly, that he was led to call the stomach the 



