DISEASES CLASS I. 3. i. 1 



Cfts of an ineffe&ual inverfion of the motions of the cefophaguS, 

 and other parts of the alimentary canal ; nothing being rejected 

 from the liomach. 



M. M. Tincture of caftcr, tinct. of opium, of each 1 5 drops. 

 See Hyfteria, Clafs I. 3. i. 9. 



8. Vomendi conamen inane. An ineffectual effort to vomit. 

 It frequently occurs, when the ftomach is empty, and in fome 

 cafes continues many hours-, but as the lymphatics of the ftom- 

 ach are not inverted at the fame time, there is no fupply of mate- 

 rials to be ejected \ it is fometimes a fymptom of hyttena, but 

 more frequently attends irregular epilepfies or reveries ; which 

 however may be diftinguimed by their violence of exertion, for 

 the exertions of hyfteric motions are feeble, as they are caufed 

 by debility ; but thofe of epileptics, as they are uted to relieve 

 pain, are of the mod violent kind ; infomuch that thofe who 

 have once feen thefe ineffectual efforts to vomit in fome epilep- 

 fies, can never again miftake them for fymptoms of hyftetia. 

 See a cafe in Sett. XIX. 2. 



M. M. Biiiter. Opium. Crude mercury. 



9. Borborigmus. A gurgling of the bowels proceeds from a 

 partial invertion of the periitaltic motions of them, by which the 

 gas is brought into a fuperior part of the bowel, and bubbles 

 through the defcending fluid, like air rufhing into a bottle as the 

 water is poured oat of it. Thr* is fometimes a diitreffing fymp- 

 tom of the debility of the bowels joined with a partial inverfion 

 of their motions. I attended a young lady about fixteen, who 

 \vas in other fefpects feeble, whofe bowels almoft inceffantly 

 made a gurgling noife fo loud as to be heard at a confiderable 

 diflance, and to attract the notice of all who were near her. As 

 this noife never ceafed a minute together for many hours in a day, 

 it could not be produced by the uniform deicent of water, and 

 afcent of air ihro'ugh it, but there muit have been alternately a 

 retrograde movement of a part of the bowel, which mud again 

 have pufhed up the water above the air ; or which might raife 

 a part of the bowel, in which the fluid was lodged, alternately 

 above and below another portion of it ; which might readily hap- 

 pen in fome of the curvatures of the fmaller inteftiries, the air 

 in which might be moved backward and forward like the air- 

 bubble in a glafs-level. 



M. M. Eilential oil. Ten corns of black pepper fwallowed 

 whole after dinner, that its effect might be flower and more per- 

 manent \ a fmall pipe occafionally introduced into the rectum 

 to facilitate the cfcape of the air. Crude mercury. See Clafs I. 

 2. 4. 8. 



10. Helena. The three b& articles, together with the lv 



phatic 



