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may therefore be said to be nervous, and 

 parts may thus perish without struggle or 

 reaction ; without inflammatory processes, 

 or with so trivial a degree of them as could 

 not by itself destroy vitality. 



To support these opinions by additional 

 evidence, I would direct your attention to 

 what happens in a disordered state of the 

 stomach. Are not its feelings and functions 

 disordered ? By feelings, I do not mean 

 those of actual pain; there may be in- 

 quietude without the patient's observing it» 

 though, in general, uncomfortable sensa- 

 tions are remarked, particularly if the 

 attention be excited to them. In such a 

 disordered condition of the stomach, are 

 not the secretions deficient or vitiated : 

 and is it not, therefore, incompetent to 

 perform its functions ? We now know, for 

 of late it has been demonstrated, that secre- 

 tion is regulated by the nervous energies. 



