nefia alba, vomits, and bitters* file has deftroyed, in a great mea-
ihre, the acidity in her ftomach.
I had fome years fince a patient of a very delicate nervous fy-
ftem, whofe eyes, when his flomach was much troubled with acidi¬
ty and flatulence, were fometimes rendered fo very fenfible, that
looking ftedfaftly on a crimfon colour, or coming fuddenly from a
bright light into a dark room, or from this lafl into the fun-fliiner
would occafion a giddinefs and pain above his eyes, together with a
dimnefs of fight, and a. bilious vomitings
XVII. Lo w fpirits* melancholy, and' a mania,-
1. In cafes of an irregular gout, when the arthritic matter falls*
upon the flomach and bowels* it frequently produces a naufea, fla¬
tulence,, low fpirits, anth other uneafy fymptoms. In fuch, winch
pent up in the flomach or inteflines occafions a difagreeable tho
not painful fenfation, attended with a. faintnefs, languor, and de-
preflion of mind;. But at other times, when this arthritic matter
has left thefe parts*. we may obferve, that a greater degree of fla¬
tulence; occafioned by errors in diet, will have no fuch efiedt. Low
fpirits, therefore, in hypochondriac and hyfieric cafes, may be fre- -
quently owing to feme morbid matter in the blood, flatulent aneb
improper aliments, or other caufes affedting the flomach and,
bowels with a particular fenfation ; which, tho’ not painful, never
thelefs is attended with great dejeclion of mind*
2. Low fpirits may be occafioned by obftrudlions in the liypo^
chondriac *uifeera, viz. the flomach, liver, <&c,> But as obftrudlions?
often happen in thofe parts without any remarkable dejedlion of
mind, whenever they are attended v^ith this fymptom, it muft be;
owing principally to the nature of the obftrudling matter, or ra¬
ther to a particular morbid ft ate of the nerves of xhotevifeera,
3. A mania, and the higher degrees of melancholy , may pro*
eeed from fome noxious matter in the blood, carried, from tl i evÿ
cera of the lower belly, or otheV parts where it was chiefly lodged,,
to the brain. Of this I fhall give an inftance or two, that fome
time ago occurred in my practice*.