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SECT. XXV. 



OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 



f. Of ^wallowing our food. Ruminating animals. %. 

 Action of the Jiomaclf. 3. dttion of the inteftines. 

 Irritative motions cvnnecltd with tbefe. 4. Effttft 

 of repletion. '"$, Stronger aftion of the flomach and 

 inteftines from more fiimulating food. 6. Their action 

 inverted by ftill 'greater famuli. Or by difguftful 

 ideas. Or by volition.' 7. Other glands ftrengthen 

 or invert their motions by fympathy. '8. Vomiting 

 performed by intervals, g. Inversion of the cutane- 

 iotfs absorbents, i o. Increafed fecretion of bile and 

 pancreatic juice. 1 1 . Jnverfion of the lacJeals. 1 2. 

 And of the bile-duels. 13. Cafe of a cholera. 14. 

 Further account of the in'verfion of lacieals* 15. Iliac 

 pajjwns. Valve of the colon. 16. Cure of the iliac 

 pajfion. 17. Pain' of gall-flone diftinguifoed from 

 pain of tie ftomach. Gout of the Jlomach from torpor^ 

 from inflammation. Intermitting pulfs owing to 

 indigejiion. To ovcrdofe of foxglove. Weak pulfe 

 from emetics. Death from a blow on the Jlomach. 

 From gout of the Jlomach. 



i. THE throat, ftomach, and jnteflines, may be 

 confidered as one great gland ; which like the lacry- 

 rnal fack above mentioned, neither begins nor ends 

 in the circulation. 'Though the act of mafticating 

 our aliment belongs to the fenfitive clafs of motions, 

 jfor the pleafure of its tafte iniduces the mufcles of 

 the jaw into action ; yet the deglutition of it when 

 malticated is generally, if not always, 'an irritative 

 motion, occafioned by the application of the food 

 already mafticated to the origin of the pharynx ; 

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