174 DISEASES CLASS II. 1. 2. 11, 



it. The pain and heat of the stomach are increased by what- 

 ever is swallowed, with immediate rejection of it. Hiccough. 



This disease may be occasioned by acrid or indigestible mat- 

 ters taken into the stomach, which may chemically or mechani- 

 cally injure its interior coat. There is, however, a slighter spe- 

 cies of inflammation of this viscus, and perhaps of all others, 

 which is unattended by much fever; and which is sometimes in- 

 duced by drinking cold water, or eating cold insipid foo4> as raw 

 turnips, when the person has been much heated and fatigued by 

 exercise. For when the sensorial power has been diminished by 

 great exertion, and the stomach has become less irritable by hav- 

 ing been previously stimulated by much heat, it sooner becomes 

 quiescent by the application of cold. In consequence of this 

 slight inflammation of the stomach, an eruption of the face fre- 

 quently ensues by the sensitive association of this viscus with the 

 skin, which is called a surfeit. See Class IV. 1. 2. 13. and II. 

 1.4. 6. and II. 1.3. 19. 



M. M. Venesection. Warm bath. Blister. Anodyne clys- 

 ters. Almond soap. See Class JI. 1. 3. 17. 



11. Enteritis. Inflammation of the bowels is often attended 

 with soft pulse, probably owing to the concomitant sickness; 

 which prevents sometimes the early use of the lancet, to the de- 

 struction of the patient. At other times it is attended with strong 

 and full pulse, like other inflammations of internal membranes. 

 Can the seat of the disease being higher or lower in the intes- 

 tinal canal, that is, above or below the valve of the colon, pro- 

 duce this difference of pulse by the greater sympathy of one part 

 of the bowels with the stomach than another? In enteritis with 

 strong pulse, the pain is great about the navel, with vomiting, 

 and the greatest difficulty in procuring a stool. In the other, the 

 pain and fever are less, without vomiting, and with diarrhoea. 

 Whence it appears, that the enteritis with hard quick pulse dif- 

 fers from ileus, described in Class I. 3. 1. 6. only in the existence" 

 of fever in the former and not in the latter, the other symptoms 

 generally corresponding; and, secondly, that the enteritis with 

 softer quick pulse, differs from the cholera described in Class I. 

 3. 1. 5. only in the existence of fever in the former, and not in 

 the latter, the other symptoms being in general similar. See 

 Class II. 1.3.20. 



Inflammation of the bowels sometimes is owing to extraneous 

 indigestible substances, as pi urn- stones, especially of the dama- 

 sin, which has sharp ends. Sometimes to an introsusception of 

 one part of the intestine into another, and very frequently to a 

 strangulated hernia or rupture. In respect to the first, I knew 

 an instance where a damasin stone, after a long period of time ? 



