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Am I not then warranted in asserting, 

 that disorder is nervous, and that it is 

 manifested by errors in the feeUngs and 

 functions of the affected parts ? Such 

 a disordered state of the stomach as 

 I now allude to, is also competent to 

 induce sympathetic disorders in other im- 

 portant organs, and greatly and variously 

 to affect all parts of the body. 



Now here I beo- leave to enquire, who 

 first led the way in noting the various 

 sympathies of the ^.different organs and 

 parts of the body ? Was it not Mr. 

 Hunter? Many of my audience may 

 not know that three or four of his lectures 

 were occupied in recording the different 

 facts he had collected relative to such 

 sympathies. They were arranged under 

 heads, as Sympathies of Life with Life ; 

 of Sensation with Sensation ; of Action 



