1272. He had this effect upon me: that for some time I was quite miserably tormented in the stomach, and was constipated with an inward and dull pain, until I had several times brought up from my stomach a foul acidity. Such is the effect that these spirits have upon the stomach, which is not unlike the mucus of the nostrils when a quantity of it is drawn down into the stomach; it then conglutinates the foods and obstructs the pores, so that there is no digestion.