Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostration, the disease runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi; persistent vomiting. The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Patients must keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire. Mind and Head.--Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.