272 PARALYSIS SECT. xxx. i. *, 



SECT. XXX, 



PARALYSIS OF THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS, 



I. Bile-duels lefs irritable after having been Jtimttlated much . a, 

 Jaundice from par a ty (is of the bile- duel 3 cured by elecJric Jhockr* 

 3, From bile-jiones. Experiments on bile ftones, Oil vomit, 

 4 Paify of the liver y two cafes. 5. Scirrhofity of the liver. 

 6. Large livers of gcefe. II. Paralyjis of the kidneys. III. 

 Story of Prometheus. 



i. FROM the ingurgitation of fpirituous liquors into the (lorn.-, 

 ach and duodenum, the termination of the common bile-duel: in 

 that bowel becomes ftimulated into unnaural action, and a 

 greater quantity of bile is produced from all the fecretory veflels 

 of the liver, by the aflbciation of their motions with thofe of 

 their excretory duels ; as has been explained in Section XXIV. 

 and XXV. but as all parts of the body, that have been affected 

 with ftronger ftimuli for any length of time, become lefs fuf- 

 ceptible of motion, from their natural weaker ftimuli. it follows, 

 that the motions of the fecretory veiTels, and in confequence the 

 fecretion of bile, is lefs than is natural during the intervals of 

 fobriety. 2. If this ingurgitation of fpiritous liquors has been 

 daily continued in confiderable quantity, and is then fuddenly 

 intermitted, a languor or paraiyfis of the common bile-duel: is 

 induced ; the bile is prevented from being poured into the in- 

 terlines ; and as the bilious abforbents are ftimulated into ftrong- 

 er aclionby its accumulation, and by the acrimony or vifcidity, 

 which it acquires by delay, it is abforbed, and carried to the 

 receptacle of the chyle ; or otherwife the fecretory veffels in the 

 liver, by the above-mentioned ftimulus, invert their motions, an^ 

 regurgitate their contents into the blood, as fometimes happens 

 to the tears in the lacrymal fack, fee Seel. XXIV. 2. 7. and one 

 kind of jaundice is brought on. 



There is reafon to believe, that the bile is moft frequently re- 

 turned into the circulation by the inverted motions ofthefe he- 

 patic glands, for the bile does not feem liable to be abforbed by 

 the lymphatics, for it foaks through the gall-duels, and is fre- 

 quently found in the cellular membrane. This kind of jaundice 

 is not generally attended with pain, neither at the extremity of 

 the bile-duel, where it enters the duodenum, nor on the region 

 of the gall-bladder. 



Mr. S. a gentleman between forty and fifty years of age* had 

 had the jaudice about fix; weeks, without pain, ficknefs, or fe- 

 ver; 



