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action, fometimes produce a confiderable degree of 
gated w sea me udently ee iftered in an pale seas 
(See Hoffmann, loc are many examples on 
rec a of various aban es: altogether foreign to ae ufe of 
man, being {wallowed with impunity 5. uch as a of 
money, pins, ae oe fhells, the ftones of fruit, 
but there are alfo n us inftances, in which the er 
diftreffing ga g gutrodya - va bere terminating Earene has 
‘been the conte the extra ordinary in- 
itances of the: ane impunity, ie ultimate fatality of fuch 
a ee Tately occu in ’s Hofpital, in the perfon 
Olp 
an Amcrican fai who, Cae the years 
cauted his death in 1809, after a long feries of fu 
f See ona "Med. Regifter for 1808, vol. i. 
Pp 350., 
Pain in the ftomach is often conneéted with certain ftates 
of the gout, with hytteria, and with hypochondriafis, and 
therefore to be treated by the remedies co are requifite 
for the removal of thofe ar re{pective 
The Cure “of Gaftrodynia mutt necelaily © various as 
the caufes which give rife to it; and thefe will require an 
accurate inveftigation, as attending to the other fymptoms 
of diforder with which it may be pe a peta we 
attempt the adminiftr vee of remedies. n the figns 
of impaired digeftion, already mentioned, concur with the 
that any fubftance of difficult digefti- 
bilit “pf = Rie Beet or that any excefs of eating = 
ted, i e EcausNgar fis rid ae spon 
ns of an emetic 
been called a will afford relief to the pain sera 
from over-diftention, and aid the general plan. "The aroma- 
tic vegetable matters, the diftilled waters from dill, corian- 
der, pepper-mint, and plants of fimilar r pr 
of pa &e, ay b 
tutes ae iene a fh, a 
confiderable ben efit. 
ment, rane Ee 
‘flop to the ace oes fermentation out o dy. t 
thefe means of obtaining ies ry relief, Gon remedies 
which ftrengthen the digetive Powe ia above mentioned, 
mutt be alternated or combin 
For ere Rl gua is when the ftomach is 
empty, a i _ — as 
an Te fate. of tie eae feoretion 
coat, he confiders the combination of opium * with aftringents 
ed. 
ae ar 
— ine. 
the ufe of the mineral ine which put a- 
Vi 
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the fuid appears to be a the tone cf the flomach 
may be reflored by a chalybeate water, or by tteel i in fome 
other form. The diet, Dr. Pemberton adds, fhould be 
plain-drefled animal. food, with a {mall proportion o vege- 
tables. The patient thould a particularly cautious not to’ 
take a large quantity of d moreover ab- 
{tain entirely from fer Sana liquors, as he fhould from hot 
broths, fifh, and in fome cafes from e 
n that pain of the ftomach, which arifes when the fto- 
ach is full, and which is confidered as a local difeafe, in 
confequence of sag ap oe ele suas the method of 
treatment ian be, for the Ba con itutional, regard 
t the fin Paes 7 d Dr. 
combination of opium e carbonate of 
ammonia, ian - fame way, has fometimes appeared 
to be very nape 
remedy was oe time ai recommended by Dr. 
Odier, of Genev . for the cure of that form of gaftrodynia 
which 4 is {pafmodic, an connecte with an increafed i irrita- 
bility of the ftomach ; 
y 
organ.”” (See a paper by Dr. Marcet e oirs of 
the Med. Soc. of ny vol, vi e have feen 
a few ey inftances of the efficacy of the aes in 
3, 1 
d nia : 
than thofe above mentioned ; we ha 
feen a {cruple taken three times a day with impunity, or 
rather without any effect whatev The magilte- 
ry, fold for arate Re rpofes, is often an impure oxyd, 
alt, or ether Fag it 
mixed with nickel, c 
When gait the bale . Ba 
ftom 
by t 
in the 
ans of diluents or chemical agents, to weaken the opera- 
tion of the poifonous f{ubftances, or farther to defend the 
omach in fome degree againft the irritation of both, by 
means of mucilaginous and oleaginous medicines. See 
ISON. 
y 
GASTRO-EPIPLOIC, in An slg sas yasne, the 
Slomach, and exvmdoev, the omentum,) an iven to certain 
arteries = - which are diftributed : ae thefe organs. 
See Anrery and VEIN. 
GASTRO. HEPATICUM Omentum. See _EPI- 
ies} 
iad 
[~) 
GASTROLATER, of yasnp, and Acleevw, a glutton, or 
elly-god 3 cujus deus vente Cs 
OMANCY 
slataalaie ao among a“ ancients, by 5 
om r fee to come, out of the belly. 
The ne es yer occ, compofed of yarrnes 
belly, and jrevreisey divination. 
here is another kind of ce meaee called by the fame 
name gaftromancy, which is performed by means of glaffes, 
or other round, tranfparent veflels, within which certain 
r GASTROMANTIA, a kind of 
means of words 
