CHAP. I.] THE SEAT OF PAIN, HOW DENOTED. 249 



as the reader of tolerable recollection well knows 

 was so described in Book I. page 131 — 5. Cor- 

 rosive poisons, we there said, carry on their work ot 

 destruction upon the internal or villous coat of the 

 stomach until the ruin is complete ; but, although 

 horrid inflammation accompanies its ravages, we 

 would not class such a species of accident under 

 any other head than " Poison :" to call it by its 

 symptom would be delusive. Neither is the in- 

 flammation caused by worms, proper to be taken 

 into consideration here, though in this case both 

 organs are affected at the same time ; but the bott 

 question involves other considerations, besides the 

 best means of destroying them, of preventing the 

 access of this irritating insect, or of alleviating the 

 effects of its bite and adhesion to the villous coat, 

 alike of stomach and intestinal canal. 



With those exceptions, there is no greater dif- 

 ference in the causes, symptoms, or means of cure 

 of inflammation in the stomach and intestines, than 

 exists between those of the great and the small gut. 

 Inflammatory pain in the smaller parts of the ali- 

 mentary canal will ever be more acute than those 

 which attack the larger ones ; thus, when the sto- 

 mach is the seat of disorder, the pains will be 

 duller', the paroxysms less distinctly marked, and 

 the pulse but little altered ; but, when" by continu- 

 ance it reaches the small gut at the lower orifice of 

 the stomach, then will the pain and anxiety of the 

 animal increase greatly, and the symptoms thereof, 

 visible in his manner, will become more distinct, 



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