Sect. XXV. i. OF THE STOMACH, Sec, 217 



SECT. XXV. 



OF THE STOMACH AN© INTESTINES. 



X. Of fw allowing our food. Ruminating animals. 2. Aclion of 

 the ftomach. 3 . Aclion of the inteflines. Irritative motions con* 

 tie bled with thefe. 4. Effects of repletion. 5. Stronger aclion 

 of the fomach and inteflines from more flimulating jood. 6. 

 Their aclion inverted by fill greater flimuli. Or by difguflful 

 ideas. Or by volition. 7. Other glands frengthen or invert 

 their motions by fympathy. 8. Vomiting performed by intervals. 

 9. Inverfloti of the cutaneous abforbents. 10. Increafed fecreii-ya 

 of bile and pancreatic juice. 1 l. Inverfion of the lacleals. 12. 

 And of the bile-duels. 13. Cafe of a cholera. 14. Farther ac- 

 count of the inverfion of lacleals. 15 Iliac paffion. Valve of 

 the colon. 16. Cure of the iliac paffion. 17. Pain of gall- 

 fone diflinguifljed from pain of the fomach. Gout of the fomach 

 from torpor ', from inflammation. Intermitting pulfe owing to i;i~ 

 digeflion. To overdofe of foxglove. Weak pulfe from emetics* 

 Death from a blow on the fomach. From gout of theflomach, 



1. The throat, ftomach, and inteflines, may be considered as 

 one great gland ; which like the lacrymal fack above mentioned, 

 neither begins nor ends in the circulation. Though the aft of 

 mafticating our aliment belongs to the fenfitive clafs of motions, 

 for the pleafure of its tafte induces the mufcles of the jaw into 

 action ; yet the deglutition of it when mafticated is generally, 

 if not always, an irritative motion, occafioned by the application 

 of the food already mafticated to the origin of the pharinx ; in 

 the fame manner as we often fwallowour fpittle without attend- 

 ing to it. 



The ruminating clafs of animals have the power to invert the 

 motion of their gullet, and of their fir ft ftcmach, from the ftim- 

 Ulus of this aliment, when it is a little further prepared; as is 

 '•their daily practice in chewing the cud $ and appears to the eye 

 of any one, who attends to them, whillt they are employed in 

 this fecond maftication of their food. 



2. When our natural aliment arrives into the ftomach, this or- 

 gan is ftimulated into its proper vermicular a£t'ion ; which be- 

 ginning at the upper orifice of it, and terminating at the lower 

 one, gradually mixes together and puihes forwards the digefting 

 materials into the inteitine beneath it. 



At the fame time the glands, that fupnly the gaftric juices 

 hich are neceiTary to promote the chemical part of the procefs 



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