STOMACH AND INTESTINES. SECT. XXV. 15. 



and at lafl feem to be only a thin mucilaginous or 

 aqueous liquor. 



From whence is it poilible, that this great quan- 

 tity of fluid for many fucceflive days can be fupplied^ 

 after the cells of the body have given up their 

 fluids, but from the atmofphere? When the cuta- 

 neous branch of abforbents ads with unnatural 

 ftrength, it is probable the inteftinal branch has its 

 motions inverted, and thus a fluid is fupplied with- 

 out entering the arterial fyfteffi. Could oiling or 

 painting the fkin give a check to this difeafe ? 



So when the ftomach has its motions inverted ? 

 the lymphatics of the .ftomach, which are mod 

 ftridly aflbciated with it, invert their motions at 

 the fame time. But the more diftant branches of 

 lymphatics, which are lefs ftrictly aflbciated with it, 

 at with ihcreafed energy ; a$ the cutaneous lym- 

 phatics in the cholera, or iliac paflion, above de- 

 fcribed. And other irritative motions become de- 

 creafed, as the pulfations of the arteries, from the 

 extra-derivation or exhauftion of the fenforial 

 power. 



Sometimes when ftronger vomiting takes placed 

 the more- diftant branches of the lymphatic fyftem 

 invert their motions with thofe of the ftomach, and 

 loofe (tools are produced, and cold fweats. 



S6 when the lacteals have their motions inverted; 

 is during the operation of ftfong purges, the 

 urinary and cutaneous abforbents have their mo- 

 tions increafed to fupply the want of fluid in the 

 blood, as in great thifft ; but after a meal with 

 fufficient potation the urine is pa:le, that is, the 

 arinary abforbents act weakly, no fupply of water 

 being wanted for the blood. And when the intefti- 

 nal abforbents acl: too violently, as when too great 

 quantities of fluid have been drank, the urinary 

 abibrbents invert their motions to carry off the 



fuperfluity 



