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jnefenteric glands, (as the variolous or venereal poi- 

 fons fwell the fubaxillar or inguinal glands) : which, 

 during the operation of a cathartic, is returned into 

 the inteitines by the inverted adion of the ladteals, 

 and thus carried our of the fyftem. 



Hence we underftand the ufe of vomits or purges, 

 to thofe who have fwallowed either contagious or 

 poifonous materials, even though exhibited a day 

 or even two days after fuch accidents ; namely, that 

 by the retrograde motions of the ladteals and lym- 

 phatics, the material ftill arrefted in the mefenteric, 

 or other glands, may be eliminated from the body. 



3. Many inftances of milk and chyle found in 

 ulcers are given by Haller, EL Phyfiol. t. 7. p. i2y 

 23, \vhich admit of no other explanation than by 

 fuppofing, that the chyle, imbibed by one branch of 

 the abforbent fyftem, was carried to the ulcer, by 

 the inverted motions of another branch of the fame 

 fyftem. 



4. Mrs. P. on the fecond day after delivery, was 

 feized with a violent purging, in which, though 

 opiates, mucilages, the bark, and teftacea were pro- 

 fufely ufed, continued many days, till at length me 

 recovered. During the time of this purging, no 

 milk could be drawn from her J3reafts ; but the 

 /tools appeared like the curd of milk broken into 

 fmall pieces. In this cafe, was not the niilk taken 

 up from the follicles of the pecloral glands, and 

 thrown on the inteftines, by a retrogreffion of the 

 inteftinal abforbents? for how can we ..for a moment 

 fufpecl that tjie niucous glands of the inteftines 

 could feparate pure milk from the blood ? Dr. Smel- 

 ly has obferved, that loofe {tools, mixed with milk, 

 which is curdled in the inteftines, frequently re- 

 lieves the turgefcency of the breafts of thofe who 

 ftudioufly repel their milk. Cafes in Midwifery, 43,, 

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