Deficient nervous action also leads to defective secretion and movement in the intestine, sometimes with flatulent accumula tion and sometimes with constipation.
2
Flatulent distension in the stomach or bowels is partly due to air which has been swallowed and partly to gas which has been formed by the decomposition of food.
3
It is for these cryptic and often flatulent bits of ' thinking ' that the book was so badly received when it first appeared.