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Sympathy

is not to be explained by suppuration.
Formerly all kinds of medicines were thought to act
upon the system by being taken into the circulation.
Sympathy can explain this operation much more
satisfactorily. We may here notice the sympathy
between the schneiderian membrane and the lachrymal
sac & gland—when this membrane is [irrated], these
secrete and discharge a deluge of tears which
washes the nostril. Light irrated and causing
the contraction of the pupil another instance. The
nose, throat, and fauces sympathise with the diaphram
hence sneezing et&c. The bladder urethra & glans penis
sympathise reciprocally. A calculus in one of the
kidneys produces pain in the other. Inflammation
of eye is often communicated to the other, and after
removing a piece of iron filing from the surface
of the eye (an operation which I frequently performed
with my pen knife) I find most uniformly that on
the ensueing day, inflammation succeeds in the
other eye. The stomach has a more extensive