SCOURING, &c. 349 



degrees, and let half a dozen of the cordial 

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

 one every morning or evening to prevent flatu- 

 lence, and ad as a warm reftorative flimulant 

 to the ftomach and inteflines. 



Having fo much enlarged upon this diftindl 

 kind of Lax, or Scouring, proceeding from 

 repletion, it becomes neceflary to animadvert 

 upon the fame diforder, when originating in a 

 different caufe. A fevere laxation, or loofenefs, 

 then is known frequently to arife from a de- 

 praved ftate of the fiomach, and a debility or 

 weaknefs of the powers neceifary to the pur- 

 pofes of digeftion. The lofs of appetite is 

 occafioned by a relaxaiion of the elafticity or 

 natural tone of the ftomach; the blood is im- 

 poverilhed by a deficiency in its nutritious fup- 

 port of chyle through the ladeals ; and the bile 

 becomes equally defedive, in being deprived of 

 its due proportion of (limulus, confequently 

 inadequate to the talk it is deflined to perform. 



The chain of operation being thus obfirud- 

 ed, the whole fyftem is in a great meafare de- 

 ranged, and the half digefted aliment foon 

 engenders fermentation by its acidity; and, in 

 5 an 



