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usually existing in the stomachs of animals. 
stomach in severe cases of dyspepsia, as the following 
examples show. The original quantities of the fluids ope- 
rated on, of course were various, but for the sake of compa- 
rison they are reduced, in the following table, to one pint, 
or 1 6 fluid ounces, which quantity, in three instances, (selected 
from many others ) was found to contain of 
Muriatic acid in union with a fixed, alkali 
with ammonia* 
in a free or unsaturated state 
Total 
N 0 . 1 . 
No. 2 . 
No. 3 . 
grs. 
grs. 
grs. 
1211 
12-40 
1125 
O' 0 
o- O 
5-39 
5’ 13 
4*63 
4-28 
17*24 
17*03 
20*92 
* I have never in more than one instance, (No. 3, of the above table) been able to 
detect any sensible quantity of the muriate of ammonia in the fluids ejected from 
the human stomach ; and upon enquiry of Sir Astley Cooper, who was kind 
enough to furnish me with the fluid for examination, I was informed that the patient 
was in the habit of frequently taking ammonia as a medicine. 
MDCCCXXIV. 
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