Sect. XXXIII. 3. 1. OF SENSATION. 3 i 9 



quence of this fympathy. In the fame manner the rofy eruption 

 on the faces of drunkards more probably arifes from the fympathy 

 of the face with the ftomach, rather than between the face and 

 the liver, as is generally fuppofed. 



This fympathy between the ftomach and the ikin of the face is 

 apparent in the eruption of the fmall-pox ; fmce, where the dif- 

 eafe is in considerable quantity, the eruption on the face firft 

 fucceeds the ficknefs of the ftomach. In the natural dileaie the 

 ftomach feems to be frequently primarily affected, either alone 

 or along with the tonfils, as the matter feems to be only diffufed 

 in the air, and by being mixed with the faliva, or mucus of the 

 tonfils, to be fwallcwed into the ftomach. 



After fome days the irritative circles cf motions become dif- 

 ordered by this new ftimulus, which acts upon the mucous li- 

 ning of the ftomach •, and ficknefs, vertigo, and diurnal fever 

 fucceed. Thefe difordered irritative motions become daily in- 

 creafed for two or three days, and then by their increafed action 

 certain fenfitive motions, or inflammation, is produced, and at 

 the next cold fit of fever, when the ftomach recovers from its 

 torpor, an inflammation of the external ikin is formed in points 

 (which afterwards fuppurate), by fenfitive aifociation, in the 

 fame manner as a cough is produced in confequence of expofmg 

 the feet to cold, as deformed in Seel:. XXV. 1. 1. and Clafs IV. 

 2. 1.7. If the inoculated ikin of the arm, as far as it appears 

 inflamed, was to be cut out, or deftroved by cauftic, before the 

 fever commenced, as fuppofe on the fourth day after inoculation, 

 would this prevent the difeafe ? as it is fuppofed to prevent the 

 hydrophobia. 



III. 1. Where the new vefTels, and enlarged old ones, which 

 conflitute inflammation, are not (o haltily diitended as to burft, 

 and form a new kind of gland for the fecretion of matter, as 

 above mentioned ; if fuch circumstances happen as diminiili the 

 painful fenfation, the tendency to growth ceaies, and by and by 

 an abforption commences, not only of the fuperabundant quan- 

 tity of fluids depofited in the inflamed part, but of the folkls 

 likewife, and this even of the hardefl kind. 



Thus during the growth of the fecondfet of teeth in children, 

 the roots of the firft fet are totally abforbed, till at length noth- 

 ing of them remains but the crown ; though a few weeks before^ 

 if they are drawn immaturely, their roots are found complete. 

 Similar to this Mr. Hunter has obferved, that where a dead 

 piece of bone is to exfoliate, or to feparate from a living one, 

 the dead part does not putrefy, but remains perfectly found, 

 while the furface of the living part of the bone, which is in con- 

 tact with the dead oart, becomes abforbed. and thus effects it? 



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