468 DISEASES OF SENSATIOtf. SECT. XXXIlJ. 3. 



ftomach feems to be frequently primarily affedted, 

 either alone or along with the tonfils, as the matter 

 feems to be only diffufed in the air, and by being 

 mixed with the faliva, or mucus of the tonfils, to 

 be fwallowed into the ftomach. 



After fome days the irritative circles of motions 

 become difordered by this new ftimulus, which acls 

 upon the mucous lining of the ftomach ; and fick- 

 nefs, vertigo, and a diurnal fever fucceed. Thefe 

 difordered iiritative motions become daily increafed 

 for two or three days, and then by their increafed 

 a&ion certain fenfitive motions, or inflammation, is 

 produced, and at the next cold fit of fever, when 

 the ftomach recovers from its torpoi?, an inflamma- 

 tion of the external fkin is formed in points (which 

 afterwards fuppurate), by fenfitive aflfociarion, in the 

 fame manner as a cough is produced in coufequence 

 of expofing the feet to cold, as defcribed in Se. 

 XXV. I. i. and Clafs IV. 2. i. 7. If the inoculated 

 fkin of the arm, as far as it appears inflamed, was 

 to be cut out, or deftroyed by cauflic, before the 

 fever commenced, as fuppofe on the fourth day after 

 inoculation, would this prevent the difeafe ? as it is 

 fuppofed to prevent the hydrophobia. 



III. i. Where the new vefieis, and enlarged old 

 ones, which conditute inflammation, are not fo haf- 

 tily diftended as to burft, and form a new kind of 

 gland for the fecretion of matter, as above menti- 

 oned ; if fuch circumftances happen as diminifh the 

 painful fenfatioii, the tendency to growth ceafes, and 

 by and by an abforption commences, not only of 

 the fuperabundant quantity of fluids depofited in 

 the inflamed part, but of the folids likewife, and this 

 even of the hardelt kind. 



Thus during the growth of the fecond fet of 

 teeth in children, the roots of the firft fet are to- 

 tally abforbed, till at length nothing of them re- 

 mains but the crown $ though a few weeks before, 



