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rally found in old dyfenteries, it is not 

 furprifing that medicines have little effed 

 after the diforder has continued for ma- 

 ny weeks or months ; or that a purging 

 fliould continue to wafte the patient, and 

 hurry him to his grave, after the origi- 

 nal diftemper has been got the better of; 

 or that fuch people, when they feem to 

 be in a convalefcent ftate, fhould be fub- 

 jedl to returns of a purging and gripes, 

 on the lead excefs in point of diet, or ex- 

 pofure to cold, or the commiflion of very 

 flight irregularities. While the i'urface 

 of the inteftines remains deprived of its 

 fine villous coat, often the mildeft excre- 

 ment proyes too great a ftimulus 10 it? 

 and even, where there is a tendency to 

 heal, the lead irregularity in diet, or flux 

 of humour on thefe parts, or an increafed 

 momentum of the blood, often irritates 

 the tender parts, and brings on a return 

 of the purging and gripes. 



The account given of the ftate of the 

 bowels evidently points out, that the in- 

 tentions to be followed for the recovery 

 of fuch patients, ought to be the fame as 



are 



