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experiment, with this Only difFerence, that 

 it required a fomewhat longer time to 

 produce thefe efiedls in the fame degree. 



REMARKS. 



1. The much quicker effedl of opium 

 poured into the cavity of the abdomen, 

 than poured into the ftomach or guts, is 

 not lefs furprifing when we confider it, 

 than it appears at firft fight. For, altho" 

 the furface of the fides of the abdomen^ 

 and of the abdominal vifcera, is much- 

 greater than that of the inner fide of the 

 ftomach or red:um^, yet thofe are covered 

 with a very denfe, and, as is faid, infen" 

 fible coat, the peritoneu)n^ to which alone 

 the opium, thus applied, is contiguous. 



From this, we fee how unfafe it may be 

 to judge of the efFedl of a medicine oa 

 different organs, merely by comparing 

 their degree of general fenfibility, even 

 where the efFeds can be conveyed through 

 the nerves alone. And, in particular, we 

 may learn, how dangerous it may prove 



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