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must equally obstruct it in the lower part of it. See Sect. XXIX, 

 6. In the convulsive asthma these sweats do not occur; hence 

 they may be distinguished; and might be called the hydropic 

 asthma, and the epileptic asthma. 



9. Translatio puris. Translation of matter from one part of 

 the system to another can only be explained from its being ab- 

 sorbed by one branch of the lymphatic system, and deposited in 

 a distant part by the retrograde motions of another branch; as 

 mentioned in Sect. XXIX. 7. 1. It is curious, that these trans- 

 lations of matter are attended generally, I believe, with cold fits; 

 for less heat is produced during the retrograde action of this 

 part of the system, as no secretion in the lymphatic glands of the 

 affected brandies can exist at the same time. Do any ineffectual 

 retrograde motions occasion the cold fits of agues? The time when 

 the gout of the liver ceases, and the gout in the foot commences, 

 is attended with a cold fit, as I have observed in two instances, 

 which is difficult to explain, without supposing the new vessels, or 

 the matter produced on the inflamed liver, to be absorbed, and 

 either eliminated by some retrograde motion, or carried to the 

 newly inflamed part? See Class IV. 1. 2. 15. 



10. Translatio lactis. Translation of milk to the bowels in 

 puerperal fevers can only be explained by the milk being ab- 

 sorbed by the pectoral branch of lymphatics, and carried to the 

 Bowels by the retrograde motions of the intestinal lymphatics or 

 Jacteals. See many instances of this in Sect. XXIX. 7. 4. 



11. Translatio urince. Translation of urine. There is a cu- 

 rious case related in the Transactions of the College of Physicians 

 at Philadelphia, Vol. I. p. 96. of a girl, who, labouring under an 

 ischuria, vomited her urine for many months; which could not 

 be distinguished from that which was at other times drawn off 

 by the catheter. After having taken much opium she seems at 

 length to have formed gravel, some of which was frequently 

 brought up by vomiting. Dr. Senter ascribes this to the retro- 

 grade motions of the lymphatics of the stomach, and the in- 

 creased ones of those of the bladder, and refers to those of Sect. 

 XXIX. of this work; which section was first published in 1780; 

 and to Maquer's Dictionary of Chemistry, Art. Urine, 



The patient above described sometimes had a discharge of 

 urine by the navel, and at other times by the rectum, and some- 

 times by urinous sweats! 



