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To elucidate this matter, and render it 

 perfedly comprehenlible, (with as Httle re- 

 ference as poffible to abftrufe reafoning or 

 anatomical difquifition) let it be underftood, 

 that the internal coat of the flomach is fo 

 plentifully portioned with branches from the 

 nervous fyftem, that it may with great pro- 

 priety be termed the joint feat of irritability; 

 for exclufive of the ad:ing ftimulus of the 

 cathartic medicines upon the extreme fen- 

 Ability of the nerves, fo innumerably dif- 

 perfed in their different ramifications, they 

 a6l alfo by irritation upon the mouths of the 

 lade ah and lymphatics^ exciting a continued 

 and proportional emiflion of their contents 

 into the inteftinal canal, fo long as the fti- 

 mulative properties of the medicine may 

 have power to ad; ; during which fuch 

 abforption of Lymph, and the regurgitation 

 of Chyle, intermixes with, and is carried 

 off by the excrements. 



By this conftant Jlimulus upon the exqui- 

 lite fenfibility of the flomach and inteftines, 

 the vermicular motion is not only excited to 

 a more frequent difcharge of its contents, but 

 its continual irritation of the vafcular fyflem 



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