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«Experiences. fur la Bile, et les ca- 
.D.3 acc eepaciee: des 
Let was at Mae lles while the 
piscue raged there, He Cae the difeafe to a prevail. 
ae He injected bile taken from perfons who had 
ded of the plague into the veins of fome dogs, which were 
almoft aes ee kilied by the vercom: A fenfelefs expe- 
riment, from which no ufeful refult could be expected to 
e tried inun&tions with mercury in the difeafe ; 
o benefit nor mifchief was found to 
been moft noticed: 
oO 
Qa. 
ia 
QO 
°o 
me 
— 
be eanonel by a oe. ae of infe&, which mer- 
cury had the power of oe He publifhed three vo- 
Jumes of coufultations and obfervations, which’ may be read 
tao pra 
der of his ons fee Haller’s Bib. Med. Eloy. Did. 
shen in their detriment, as aftro {peak, 7. e. when 
they have loft their force, or pialaenee as is pretended, by 
reafon of their being in oppofition to fome others, which 
check and counteract them 
Or, itis ufed when a planet i is in a fign oppofite to that 
wherein it has its greateft effet, of influence, which is called 
its exaltation. Thus the fign Aries being the exaltation of 
e Sun, the fign Libra 1s its deje@tion, See Exaura- 
N. 
“DEJECT ION, in Afrology, is naa to the planets, 
soger 
>in a ies dijicioy _ aaa: of cus 
perly fignides te act o 
ments. it is alfo more Poni: a pied to the excre- 
ments theme, thus evacuated; in which fenfe it is of the 
fame im oe 
An examination of 
is hi hly important in the treatment of all acute, and many 
chronic, difeafes; inafmuch as the fenfible qualities of the 
excrement indicate, in a confiderable degree, the various dif- 
ordered ftates of the organs of digeftion, and the alimentary 
canal, and more particularly of the liver. For, although, in 
many cafe of acute and chronic diforder, thefe 
morbid eordiien of the digeftive organs are fF 
mon nitrated, that many difeafes of the fyitem at large either 
depend altogether upon the morbid flate of the chylopoietic 
vilcera, indicated by unnatural feeces, or are fo connected 
with it, as to ceafe when that pee {tate is removed by 
wacdibine: See CarHartic, and Cu 
The ancients did not fail to pay oe to the ftools, 
as well as the other evacuations of the fick; and they de- 
duced their practical inferences, accordisz to their humoral 
pathology, from eng fuppofed crude or “concoted ftate of 
the feces. But ie a f{rems to be lefs correftly 
applicable to = sive than to fome other difcharges 5 and 
the conco&ion of the excretions by ftoo tage to have 
a fignified in general their approac he natural 
r he ealthy appearance, and the term crude have included 
f the condition of the alvine excretions 
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all the various hark d a aeeaa which they exhibited. 
See Crup ONCOCTION. 
In difeafes of a dige fv ive organs and inteftines them- 
felves, the nature of the deje4tions affords fowe of the diag 
noftic figns of the wnavure of the dileafes. In dyfentery, for : 
example, in 
Reget ce conltri@ed, and the foecal matter detained, the 
ree coniift principally of the flime or mucus of the bowel, 
or, in more violent cafes, of blood only; ; and the foecal matter, 
if any a ea charged, is in the form of hard balls, or {cybala : 
in the e advanced ftages, when ulceration has taken place, 
pieces A eee alte lymph, like membranes, are difcharged, 
with fani ious matter. In fimple diarrheea, the feecal matter, 
th exhalent veflels 
of the canal, or mixed with portions of ats 
= les off neverthelefs, retaining moft of it 
ead and milk, the foeces are 
Hie cigelfion is  filordered, the biliary fecretion 
going o is generated in t ¢ ttomach, which, mixing 
with ie bile, are ie aie difcharges a green colour. Ir- 
ances ape y occur, in which a fluid like coffces 
nds colour and gee ree is vomit fa. and fimilar 
and of an offe ooh {mell, is dif- 
charged in great cant les per anum 3 fom 
is obferved mixed with thefe difcharge . 
They confit undoubtedly of blood flowly evacused: me- 
times arifing from the inner furface of the inteftines, ines 
times from the liver, and generally occur in {pirit-drinkers. 
This ae ee been termed MELANA (ptduwe, black dif- 
eafe e examination of the bodies of perfons who 
ave die dof es attack, the lining of the inteftinal canal 
has beer ou highly inflamed, and apparently tending to 
mor rificaton, through the whole extent, fometimes with and 
at rial without any difeafe of the liver 
In many nervous s and febrile diforders of ee conftitution, 
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cons, as point nted ow t by Mr. Abernethy ; 
tools, by their unnatural soloar, and feetid odour, indicate 
diforder in the chylopoietic organs ; and efpecially, as Mr. 
Abernethy eae in the lee and its oy the bile. 
Me dic al men, he obfe 
bile. 
ie, are colourlels, or white ; 
» this fluid were wanting, the refidue of the alent woul 
be of the colour, which might be expe&ed to cae from 
fome of its undizefted parts combined; and this is the cafe 
in jaundice, and fometimes in children, during ‘iin as 
before mentioned. e of dif» 
Befides ee Case from the peer rer do 
not ie enter into combination with the foecal matter, 
but appear diftinétly when excreted. ‘Thus we find mucus 
and jeily dfsharged from the bowels, unmixed with the 
ec — » laf tly, medicines which — . the liver, prow 
duce a a fudden change in the co of the foc 
Small dofes of mercury, witho BY & Sees ion of d foe . 
fometimes change the ftools immediately from a back to 
alight 
