4648. CORRESPONDENCE IN DISEASES. Diseases do, indeed, exist from natural causes among men who are not, as to the spirit, at the same time in the other life; but, as often as they exist, thither flow spirits corresponding to that disease. For spirits who are in evil and falsity, produce precisely such things as are perceived by the sense in diseases, as I have most plainly experienced from hypocrites, [namely] that their presence brought on pain of the teeth and gums, and of that part of the skull, and this beyond all mistake. When I suffered with a certain heaviness of the stomach and bowels, spirits, corresponding to that disease, applied themselves there, as I sensibly perceived, and they spoke somewhat. So, in the other diseases.