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dam. In ia Dr. Gaftrel fided with the Tories, which 
a 
of W: 
When the bili was depending again his old 
friend_the bifhop of Rochetter, he fpoke with animation in 
his behalf, and with indignation againit the adminiftration. 
And inthe year 1723, when the bill es inflicting pains and pe- 
iam on the bifhop had paffed the commons, and was brought 
nto the houfe of lords, Dr. Gallrel oppofed it in every 
face. becaufe he was convinced that there was not fufficient 
evidence to juttity = ae of the procecdings inftituted 
againi tter r. Gaftrel fell a viétim to the 
gout in che year I ee when he w . about lixty-three years 
of age. He died at hie apartments in Scape ee an 
ue buried in the cathedral there, en ent. 
*¢ But,” fays the writer of his life in the Bios raphia Bea. 
nica, “he left a fufficient monument of himfelf in his ex- 
eellent writings.’’ Befides his other employments, he was 
one of the commiffioners for building fifty new churches in. 
London: and a member of the ae! for propagating the 
Gofpel in foreign Parts 
GASTRIC, in ee ain adjeStive derived from yasney 
the ftomach, and applied to the arteries, nerves, or other parts 
belonging to that o an 
GASTRICUS Succus, or a ged juice, in Phyfiology, an 
animal fluid, fecreted in hg ftomach, mixed-with the food, 
which it has the power of ihe. and ‘conftituting there- 
by the chief agent in the precefs of digeftion. See DicEsTion. 
QUUS, or Gast sete a perfon who 
fpeaks inwardly, or within his ftomach, thofe voic 
feems to come from afar off; more ufually called a a 
whic - 
The is formed of. ae Greek, yasnp, belly, flomach, 
and the Tato, Rs as to [peak 
GAS ST RIT is, 2, fro m the Greek, Varnes the 
ye with the faeces, Zz. Gece inflammation of 
he h. 
m the variety of fubftances which pafs through the’ 
e. But it has been ob 
aftive degree, or rather a pallies modification of the dif- 
eafe, which he has termed the erythematic inflammation of 
the ftomach, occurs more frequently ; although the fymp- 
which its prefence is indicated, are not always fo 
chlegmonous inflamma- 
veftin the er n 
tga feted in the ailcue coat and cellular texture imme- 
sdiately fubjacent. 
The eh nasnic inflammation of the ftomach, or gattritis 
properly fo called, is chiaraéterized by an acute burning pain 
ia the region of the ftomach, which is fuddenly increafed, 
and vomiting at the fame time excited by any thing whatever 
that is fwallowed ; ; it is alfo gt aaa by external preflure. 
Thefe fymptoms are accompanied by a great degree of ge- 
ncral fever or pyrexia; the pulfe H extremely quick and 
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the funGtions of the body, than in the cafe of almoft any 
i In many inftances there is a remark- 
n fo 
Thus ded ieee in the « 
) 
aa “confiderable di 
a 
though cae thirft was ne rs an actual yreptebi or 
horror of taking liquids, has alfo taken place. By this 
is to be unde riteo d, however, only a dread of driskings and 
not the rabies oe aoe ld called hyd:ophobia, from: 
one of its fymptom na remarkable cafe of inflamma-- 
tion of ie loach, ‘(de fer ed in the ape Medical. 
Effays, vel. 1. art. 29.) which was moft violent, but ulti- 
mately ae - repeated Bieod letting, Hie dread of liquids. 
obvicufly arofe from experienc e acu excite 
the gullet and throat. « After this lat blooding,’’ favs the 
writer, “the patient, finding himfelf more than ever relieved, 
called haftily for a little warm nmilka nd water, which he reedily 
glutted ina mouthtul, and that very moment, with great forces. 
nd rro 
» it has been fuppofed, that the er, 
nected with canine madnefs, criginates from an alamnation 
of the gullet and ftomach, more particularly as diflection 
has often difcovered a fmall ee of fuch inflammation in 
that difeafe. “See Hyp 
From the great feniibility of co ftomach, and its fympa- 
thetic connection with the other important organs of life, it 
mutt be obvio ‘is 
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na 
In nee cul is y the great 
ebility which fuch an inflammation fudde nly induces, it 
may quickly prove fatal, without running the common courte 
mach with life, that fome of the caufes of gaftritis produce 
death almoft inflantaneoufly, before any inflammation can be 
excited. us fome of the narcotic poifons, fuch as laurel- 
water, a trong infafion oO 
in fuffic ient quantity, have pro 
oS draught of cold water, - i ody has been violent- 
ly heated and exhaufted by great exertions and copicus {weat- 
ing, has likewife had the fe effet, Corp.) Anda 
blow on the region of the ftomach will occafion inftant death. 
without ae either inflammation or rupture of veffels ; 
s in the cafe of a man taken to the Royal Infirmary at 
Edinburgh, aad mentioned by Dr. Gregory in his le€tures.. 
If the difeafe latis long enough to follow the ordinary 
courfe of othe r inflammations, i it may. terminate like them by: 
sisi n, [all er fuppuration. Some writers have 
entioned {icirrhus and canéer of the ftom mong the 
ae are (don ine own aie be the ae of ae 
as to the tendency of the difeafe to 
or other of the a ‘terminations, may be esas from. 
the following appearances i confiderations. 
ion of the inflammation to ceafe, or to termina y refoli ‘t- 
tion, as it is called, may be. tena by its having ee trom 
e: 
