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burft, or inverted, by pouring a pound or two of crude mercury 

 into the cefophagus ? 



26. LaEleontm inirritabilitas. Inirritability of the la&eals is 

 defcribed in Sect. XXVIII. under the name of paralyfis of the 

 lafteals ; but as the word paralyfis has generally been applied to 

 the difobedience of the mufcles to the power of volition, the 

 name is here changed to inirritability of the la&eals, as more 

 charafteriffic of the difeafe. 



27. Lymphaticorum inirritabilitas. The inirritability of the 

 cellular and cutaneous lymphatics is defcribed in Seel:. XXIX. 5. 

 i. and in Clafs I. 2. 3. 10. The inirritability of the cutaneous 

 lymphatics generally accompanies anaiarca, and is the caufe o 

 the great third in that malady. At the fame time, the cellular 

 lymphatics acl: with greater energy, owing to the greater de- 

 rivation of fenforial power to them, in confequence of the lefs 

 expenditure of it by the cutaneous ones , and hence they abforb 

 the fat, and mucus, and alfo the thinner parts of the urine* 

 Whence the great emaciation of the body r the muddy fediment, 

 and the fmall quantity of water in this kind of dropfy, 



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