174 DISEASES CLASS II. r. 2. it, 



it. The pain and heat of the ftomach are Jncreafed by what- 

 ever is fwallowed, with immediate rejection of it. Hiccough. 



This difeafe may be occafioned by acrid or indigeftible mat- 

 ters taken into the ftomach, which may chemically or mechanical* 

 ly injure its interior coat. There is however a (lighter fpecies of 

 inflammation of this vifcus, and perhaps of all others, which is 

 unattended by much fever ; and which is fometimes induced by 

 drinking cold water, or eating cold infipid food, as raw turnips, 

 when the perfori has been much heated and fatigued by exercife. 

 For when the fenforial power has been diminifhed by great ex- 

 ertion, and the ftomach has become lefs irritable by having been 

 previoufly ftimulated by much heat, it fooner becomes quiefcent 

 by the application of cold. In confequence of this flight inflam- 

 mation of the ftomach an eruption of the face frequently enfues 

 by the fenfitive aflbciation of this vifcus with the (kin, which is 

 called a furfeit. See ClafsIV. i. a. 13. and II. i. 4. 6. and II. 

 1.3. 19. 



M. M. Venefe&ion. Warm bath. Blifter. Anodyne clyf- 

 ters. Almond foap. See Clafs II. 1.3. 17. 



IT. Enteritis. Inflammation of the bowels is often attended 

 with foft pulfe, probably owing to the concomitant ficknefs ; 

 which prevents fometimes the early ufe of the lancet, to the de- 

 ftrudion of the patient. At other times it is attended with 

 ftrong and full pulfe like other inflammations of internal mem- 

 brrtnes. Can the feat of the difeafe being higher or lower in 

 the inteftinal canal, that is, above or below the valve of the co- 

 lon, produce this difference of pulfe by the greater fympathy of 

 one part of the bowels with the ftomach than another ? In en- 

 teritis with ftrong pulfe the pain is great about the navel, with 

 vomiting, and the greateft difficulty in procuring a ftool. In the 

 other, the pain and fever are lefs, without vomiting, and with 

 diarrhoea. Whence it appears, that the enteritis with hard 

 quick pulfe differs from ileus, defcribed in Clafs I. 3. i. 6. only 

 in the exiftence of fever in the former and not in the latter, the 

 other fymptoms generally correfponding ; and, fecotidly, that 

 the enteritis with fofter quick pulfe, differs from the cholera de- 

 fcribed in Clafs I. 3. i. 5. only in the exiftence of fever in the 

 former, and not in the latter, the other fymptoms being in gen- 

 eral fimilar. See Clafs II. i. 3. 20. 



Inflammation of the bowels fometimes is owing to extraneous 

 indigeftible fubftances, as plum-ftones, efpecially of the dama- 

 fin, which has fharp ends. Sometimes to an introfufception of 

 one part of the inteftine into another, and very frequently to a 

 ftrangulated hernia or rupture. In refpec~l to the firft, 1 knew 

 an initance where a damafin {tone, after a long period of time, 



found 



