1-34 DISEASES Glass I. 3. 1. p 



of enfeebled drunkards. Or Jaftly, by having been previoufly 

 too violently ftimulated by an emetic drug, as by ipecacuanha. 



M. M. A Wider. An emetic. Opium. Warmth of a bed, 

 covering the face for a while with the bed-clothes. Crude mer- 

 cury. A poultice with opium or theriaca e'xternally. 



5. Cholera. When not only the ftomach, as in the lad arti- 

 cle, but alfo the duodenum, and ileum, as low as the valve of the 

 colon, have their motions inverted -, and great quantities of bile 

 are thus poured into the Jlomach ; while at the lame time tome 

 branches of the la£leals become retrograde, and d.ifgorge their 

 contents into the upper part of the alimentary canal ; and other 

 branches of them difgorge their contents into the lower parts of 

 it beneath the valve of the colon ; a vomiting and purging com- 

 mence together, which is called cholera, as it is fuppofed to have 

 its origin from increafed fecretion of bile ; but I fuppofe more 

 frequently arifes from putrid food, or poilbnous drugs, as in the 

 cafe narrated in Sett. XXV. 13. where other circumftances of 

 this difeafe are explained. See Clafs II. 1. 2. 11. 



The cramps of the legs, which are liable to attend cholera, 

 are explained in Clafs III. 1. 1. 15. 



6. Ileus. Con (ills in the inverted motions of the whole intefli- 

 nal canal, from the mouth to the anus ; and of the lacteals and 

 abforbents which arife from it. In this pitiable difeafe, through 

 the valve of the colon, through the pylorus, the cardia, and the 

 pharynx, are ejected, firfl, the contents of the flomach and in- 

 terlines, with the excrement and even clyfters themfelves j then 

 the fluid from the la&eals, which is now poured into the intef- 

 tines by their retrograde motions, is thrown up by the mouth ; 

 and, hilly, every fluid, which is abforbed by the other lymphatic 

 branches, from the cellular membrane, the fkin, the bladder, and 

 all other cavities of the body ; and which is then poured into 

 the flomach or inteftines by the retrograde motions of the lacte- 

 als ; all which fupply that amazing quantity of fluid, which is 

 in this difeafe continually ejected by vomiting. See 3e£t. X]£V, 

 i£. for a farther explanation of this difeafe. 



M. M. Copious venefetlion. Twenty grains of calomel in 

 fmall pills, or one grain of aloe every hour till ftools are procuiv 

 ed. Blillers. Warm bath. Crude mercury. Clyfter of ice- 

 water. Smear the fkin all over with greafe, as mentioned in 

 Seel. XXV. 15. 



As this malady is occnfioned fometimes by an introfufception 

 of a part of the intefline into another part of it, efpecially in 

 children, could holding them up by their heels for a fecond or 

 two of time be of fervice after venefeclion ? Or the exhibition 

 of crude quickfilver two ounces every half hour, till a pound is 



taken, 



