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namon; rice-jelly, sago, with red port; and the lightersorts of flesh meats roasted. The drink may be thinwater-gruel, rice-water, or thin broth made from leanveal, or with a sheep's head, as being rflore gelatinousthan mutton, beef, or chicken-broth.

Persons who from a peculiar weakness, or too greatan irritability of the bowels, are liable to frequent re-turns of this disease, should live temperately, avoid-ing crude summer fruits, all unwholesome foods, andmeats of hard digestion; they ought likewise to be-ware of cold, moisture, or whatever may obstruct theperspiration, and should wear flannel next the skin ;all violent passions, as fear, anger, &c. are likewisecarefully to be guarded against.

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Vomiting may proceed from various causes, asexcess in eating and drinking, foulness of the stomach,the acrimony of the aliment, a translation of the mor-bific matter of ulcers, of the gout, the erysipelas, orother diseases of the stomach. It may likewise pro-ceed from a looseness beingtoo suddenly stopped, fromthe stoppage of any customary evacuation, as thebleeding piles, the menses, &c. from a weakness ofthe stomach, the colic, the iliac passion, a rupture, afit of the gravel, worms, or from any kind of poisontaken into the stomach. It is an usual symptom ofinjuries done to the brain; as contusions, compres-sions, &c. It is likewise a symptom of wounds, orinflammation c«f the diaphragm, intestines, spleen,liver, kidneys, &c.

Vomiting may be occasioned by unusual motions,as sailing, by being drawn backwards in a cart or coach,&c. It may likewise be excited by violent passions, orby the idea of nauseous or disagreeable objects, especi-ally of such things as have formerly produced vomit-ing; sometimes it proceeds from a regurgitation of thebile into the stomach; in this case what the patientvomits is generally of a yellow or greenish colour, andhas a bitter taste. Persons who are subject to nervous

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