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40 Dyspepsia, especially after the abuse of mercury. Even the most innocent kind of food causes distress.

"Gastric Symptoms.—Raising of air, or bitter eructations. Rising of the ingesta and of the fat one had eaten. Heartburn. Sour eructations. Hiccough after moving about. Gulping-up of mucus, after eating. Nausea early in the morning. Constant nausea. Waterbrash, also at night. Hæmatemesis. Gastric derangement after drinking wine.

"Stomach.—Pains at the stomach, in case of nursing females. Heaviness, fulness and tension in the stomach. Contractive or burning-aching cardialgia, with a good deal of flatulence and painfulness of the pit of the mach to the touch. Clutching and trembling in the stomach.

"Abdomen.—Pains in the hypochondria as if bruised, especially in the region of the liver. Stitching pain below the ribs. Tension, pressure and stitching in the region of the liver. Splenetic stitches. The clothes press on the hypochondria. Colic around the umbilicus, when touching the part. Heaviness, fulness, distention of the abdomen, with heat in the whole body. Colic from riding in a carriage. Pressure and crampy feeling in the lower abdomen.