Sacx. XXX. i* PARALYSIS OF THE LlVEJl. 4*1 



SECT. XXX. 



PARALYSIS OF THE 1VER AND 



I- Bile-dufts lefs irritable' after having been Jlhnulated 

 muck. 2. Jaundice from paralyfis of tty bile-dufts 

 cur id by eleclric Jhocks. 3. From bile-ftones. Ex- 

 periments on bile-ftones. Oil vomit. 4. Palfy of 

 the liver, two caufes. 5. Schirrofity of the liver. 

 6. Large livers of geefe. IL '"aralyfis of the kid* 

 neys. III. Story of Prometheus* 



i. FROM the ingurgitation of fpirituous liquors 

 into the ftomach and duodenum, the termination 

 of the common bile-dudt in that bowel becomes 

 Simulated into unnatural a&ion, and a greater quan- 

 tity of bile is produced from all the Decretory yeflels 

 of the liver, by the affociation of their nootions wkh 

 thole of their excretory du6b ; as has t^een explain- 

 ed in Sedion XXIV. and XXV. but as all parts of 

 the body, that have been aiFe&ed with ftronger (ti- 

 muli for any length of time, become lefs fufceptible 

 of motion, from their natural weaker ftimuli, it fol- 

 lows, that the motions of the fecretory veffeis, and 

 in confequence the fecretion of bile, is lefs than is 

 natural during the intervals of fobriety. 2. If this 

 ingurgitation of fpirituous liquors has been daily con- 

 tinued in confiderable quantity, and is then fud- 

 denly intermitted, a languor or paralyfis of the 

 common bile-duel is induced ; the bile is prevented 

 from being poured into the inteftines ; and as the 

 bilious abfprbents are ftimulated into ftronger adion 

 by its accumulation, and by the acrimqny pr vifci- 

 dity, which it acquires by delay, it is abforbed, and 



carried 



