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center of sympathies, a term, which such 

 observations, if correct, would render par- 

 ticularly apt and expressive. 



The full importance of this subject, could 

 not, I think, have been discovered by the 

 most acute physiological observation. It has 

 been, however, manifested by the results of 

 medical practice, which shew that if the disor- 

 dered feelings and functions of the digestive 

 organs be removed, the greatest degrees of 

 nervous disorder, will sometimes suddenly 

 cease ; at others, will be greatly mitigated, 

 and gradually subside ; clearly proving, that 

 in such cases, the one derangement is the 

 cause of the other. 



To this subject, I particularly claimed 

 your attention, because, it seems to me 

 perfectly demonstrable, that the continued 

 and aggravating irritation which the brain 

 and abdominal viscera, when disordered. 



