134 DISEASES CLASS I. 3. i. 



of enfeebled drunkards. Or laftly, by having been previoufly 

 too violently ftimulated by an emetic drug, as by ipecacuanha. 



M. M. Abliiler. An emetic. Opium. Warmth of a bed, 

 covering the face for a while with the bed-clothes. Crude mer- 

 cury. A poultice with opium or theriaca externally. 



5. Cholera. When not only the ftomach, as in the laft arti- 

 cle, but alfo the duodenum, and ileum, as low as the valve of the 

 colon, have their motions inverted ; and great quantities of bile 

 are thus poured into the ftomach ; while at the fame time fome 

 branches of the lacleals become retrograde, and difgorge their 

 contents into the upper part of the alimentary canal ; and other 

 branches of them difgorge their contents into the lower parts of 

 it beneath the valve of the colon ; a vomiting and purging com- 

 mence together, which is called cholera, as it is fuppofed to have 

 its origin from increaied fecretion of bile ; but I fuppofe more 

 frequently arifes from putrid food, or poifonous drugs, as in the 

 cafe narrated in Se<r,. XXV. 13. where other circumftances of 

 this difeafe are explained. See Clafs II. r. 2. 11. 



The cramps of the legs, which are liable to attend cholera, 

 are explained in Clafs III. i. i. 15. 



6. Ileus. Confifts in the inverted motions of the whole intefti- 

 nal canal, from the mouth to the anus ; and of the lacleals and 

 abforbents which arife from it. In this pitiable difeafe, through 

 the valve of the colon, through the pylorus, the cardia, an 

 pharynx, are ejected, firft, the contents of the ftomach ar: 

 teftines, with the excrement and even clyfters themfelves j t^ea 

 the fluid from the lacleals, which is now poured into the intef- 

 tines by their retrograde motions, is thrown up by the mouth ; 

 and, laftly, every fluid, which is abforbed by the other lymphatic 

 branches, from the cellular membrane, the fkin, the bladder, and 

 all other cavities of the body ; and which is then poured into 

 the ftomach or inteftines by the retrograde motions of the lacle- 



.als; all which fupply that amazing quantity of ftttid, which is 

 in this difeafe continually ejected by vomiting. See Seel:. XXV. 

 15. for a further explanation of this difeafe. 



M. M. Copious vene.fecHon. Twenty grains of calomel in 

 fmall ptlisj or one grain of aloe every hour till ftools are procur- 

 ed. BlifterS. Warm bath. Crude mercury. Clyfter of ice- 

 water. Smear the fkin all over with greafe, as mentioned in 

 Sea. XXV. 15. 



As this malady is occafioned fometimes by an introfufception 

 of a part of the inteftine into another part of it, efpecially in 

 children, could holding them up by their heels for a fecond or 

 two of time be of fervice after venefecl:ion ? Or the exhibition 

 of crude quickfilver two ounces every half hour, till a pound is 



taken, 



