- a variation of flatulence.
flatulency
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The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasureable sensation.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Internally, used for.—Disorders of the stomach, flatulency, dysentery, colic.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
Each time I had to let my belt buckle out for another notch in order that I might breathe I diagnosed the trouble as a touch of what might be called Harlem flatulency.
From One Third Off by Tony Sarg
Hysteria is distinguished from hypochondriasis, as in the latter there are no retrograde motions of the alimentary canal, but simply a debility or inirritability of it, with distention and flatulency.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
For these diseases are caused by indigestion and flatulency, and by frugality and exercise they remove every humour and spasm.
From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More
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