Class I. 2. 3. 16. OF IRRITATION, T03 



burft, or inverted, by pouring a pound or two of crude mercury 

 into the cefophagus ? 



26. LaBeoriuiiimvritabilkas. Inirritability of the la&eals ig 

 defcribed in Seel. XXVIII. under the name of paralyfis of the 

 lacleals \ but as the word paralyfis has generally been applied to 



>the difobedience of the mufcles to the power of volition, the 

 name is here changed to inirritability of the la&eals, as more 

 characleriitic of the difeafe. 



27. Lymphaticorum inirritabilitas. The inirritability of the 

 cellular and cutaneous lymphatics is defcribed in Seel. XXIX. 5. 

 1. and in Clafs I. 2. 3. 16. The inirritability of the cutaneouj 

 lymphatics generally accompanies anafarca, and is the caufe o£ 

 the great third in that malady. At the fame time, the cellular 

 lymphatics a6t with greater energy, owing to the greater de- 

 rivation of fenforial power to them, in confequence of the lefs 

 expenditure of it by the cutaneous ones ; and hence they abforb 

 the fat, and mucus, and alfo the thinner parts of the urine, 

 Whence the great emaciation of the body, the muddy fedimentj. 

 and the fmall quantity of water in this kind of dropfy. 



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