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question which I should thus answer. 

 When organs are supplied from the same 

 plexuses or gangHa, it is reasonable to 

 suppose they may participate in each 

 others disorder ; en this principle, the 

 whole of the digestive organs might ra- 

 tionally be supposed to sympathize with 

 one another, and also the whole of the 

 organs contamed in the pelvis ; disorder 

 of the stomach might be supposed like- 

 wise to affect the aesophagus, lungs, larynx, 

 and tongue, in consequence of those ner- 

 vous communications with which we are 

 well acquainted. But it may further be 

 enquired, can sympathetic feelings occur 

 between parts where we have not been 

 able to trace such nervous communica- 

 tions, or how do those strange sympathies 

 occur, and become established in disorder 

 and disease, which we never observe in 

 health ? To me it is evident, as it was to 

 Mr. Hunter, that the stomach has a 



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