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jjtotoxication he made a large quantity of water ; this water had 

 il*ht yellow tinge, as might be expected from a fmall admix- 

 ture of bile fecreted from the kidneys ; but if the v. 

 had palled through the fanguiferous veffels, which were now re- 

 plete with bile (his whole (kin being as yellow as gold) would 

 not this urine alfo, as well as that he had made for weeks before, 

 have been of a deep yellow ? Paper dipped in this water, and 

 dried, and ignited, mewed evident marks of the prefence of ni- 

 tre, when the flame was blown out. 



IV. The Phenomena of the Diabetes explained, and of fame Diar- 

 rhoeas. 



The phenomena of many difeafes are only explicable from 

 the retrograde motions of fome of the branches of the lymphat- 

 ic fyitem ; as the great and immediate How of pale urine in the 

 .beginning of drunkennefs ; in hyfteric paroxyfms ; from being 

 expofed to cold air 5 or to the influence of fear or anxiety. 



Before we endeavour to illuitrate this doctrine, by defcribing 

 the phenomena of thefe difeafes, we mud premife one circum- 

 ftance ; that all the branches of the lymphatic fyftem have a cer- 

 tain fympathy with each other, infomuch that when one branch 

 is (timuiated into unufual kinds or quantities of motion, fome 

 other branch has its motions either increafed, or decreafed, or 

 inverted at the fame time. This kind of fympathy can only be 

 proved by the concurrent teftimOpy of numerous facts, which 

 will be related in the courfe of the work. I (hall only add here, 

 that it is probable, that this fympathy does not depend on any 

 communication of nervous filaments, but on habit ; owing to 

 the various branches of this fyftem having frequently been Itim- 

 ulated into action at the fame time. 



There are athoufand initancesoimvoluntarvmotions aiTociated 

 in this manner ; as in the act of vomiting, while the motions of 

 the {tomach and cefophagus are inverted, the pulfations of the 

 arterial fyftem by a certain fympathy become weaker ; and 

 when the bowels or kidneys are ftimulatedby poifon, a (lone, or 

 inflammation, into more violent action ; the flcmach and cefoph- 

 agus by fympathy invert their motions. 



1. When any one drinks a moderate quantity of vinous fpir- 

 it, the whole fyftem acts with more energy by confent with the 

 .ftomach and interlines, as is feen from the glow on the flcin, and 

 the mcreafe of ftrength and activity ; but when a greater quan- 

 tity of this inebriating material is drunk, at die fame time that 

 thQ lacteals are excited into greater action to abibrb it ; it fre- 

 quently happens, that die urinary branch of abfoibents, which is 



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