SCOURING, &c. 34^ 



degrees, and let half a dozen of the cordial 

 balls, (p. 209.) be brought into ufe 5 giving 

 one every morning or evening to prevent flatu- 

 lence, and ad: as a warm reftorative ftimulant 

 to the flomach and inteitines. 



Having fo much enlarged upon this diilincft 

 kind of Lax or Scouring, proceedinc»- from 

 repletion, it becomes neceffary to animadvert 

 upon the iame diforder, when originating in a 

 different caufe. A fevere taxation, or loofenefs, 

 then is known frequently to arife from a de- 

 praved ftate of the ftomach, and a debility or 

 weaknefs of the powers neceffary to the pur- 

 pofes of digeftion. The lofs of appetite is 

 occafioned by a relaxation of the elafticity or 

 natural tone of the ftomach; the blood is im- 

 poveriflied by a deficiency in its nutritious fup- 

 port of chyle through the ladeals ; and the bile 

 becomes equally defective, in being deprived of 

 its due proportion of ftimulus, confequently 

 inadequate to the tafk it is deftined to perform* 



The chain of operation being thus obftrud- 



ed, the whole fyftem is in a great meafure 



deranged, and the half-digefted aliment foon 



engenders ferm.entation by its acidity; and, in 



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