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by floods ; which is other wife abforbed as foon as produced, 

 and by the immenfe quantity of thin fluid, which is evacuated 

 along with it. 



12. But if the tumulus, which inverts the ftomach, be fall 

 more Dowerful, or more permanent, it fometimes happens, that 

 the motions of the biliary glands, and of their excretory ducts, 

 are at the feme time inverted, and regurgitate '.heir contained 

 bile into the blood-veiiels, as appears by the yellow colour of the 

 flein, and of the urine ; and it is probable the pancreatic fecretion 

 may fuffer an inverQon at the fame time, though we have yet no 

 mark by which this can be afcertaincd. 



1 <5. Mr. ate two putrid pigeons out of a cold rnVeon- 



pye, and drank about a pint of beer and ale along with them, 

 and immediately rode about five miles. He was then feized 

 with vomiting, which was after a few periods fucceeded by purg- 

 ing ; thefe continued alternately for two hours \ and the purg- 

 ing continued by intervals for fix or eight hours longer. Du- 

 ring this time he could not force himfelf to drink more than one 

 pint in the whole ; this great inability to drink was owing to tht 

 naufea, or inverted motions of the ftomach, which the volunta 

 exertion of fwallowing could feldom and with difficulty over- 

 come ; yet he difcharged in the whole at lead fix quarts j whence; 

 came this quantity of liquid ? Firft, the contents of the ftomach 

 were emited, then of the duodenum, gall-bladder, and pancreas, 

 by vomiting. After this the contents of the lower bowels ; then 

 the chyle, that was in the Ja£teal vefTels, and in the receptacle 

 of chyle, was regurgitated into the inteftines by a retrograde mo- 

 tion of thefe vefleis. And afterwards the mucus difpofited in the 

 cellular membrane, and on the furface of all the other mem- 

 branes, feems to have been abforbed u and with the fluid abforb- 

 ed from the air to have been carried by their refpeclive lymphat- 

 ic branches by the increafed energy of their natural motions, and 

 down the vifceral lymphatics, or lacteals, by the inverfion of 

 their motions. 



14. It may be difficult to invent experiments to demonftrate 

 the truth of this inverfion of fome branches of the abforbent fyf- 

 tem, and increafed abforption of others 5 but the analogy of thefe 

 vefTels to the inteftinal canal, and the fymptoms of many difeafes, 

 render this opinion more probable than many other received 

 opinions of the animal economy. 



In the above in fiance, after the yellow excrement was voided, 

 the fluid ceafed to have any fmell, and appeared like curdled 

 milk, and then thinner fluid, and fome mucus, were evacuated j 

 did not thefe feern to partake of the chyle, of the mucous fluid 

 frpm all the cells of the body, and laftly, of the atmofpheric moif- 

 • ture ? 



