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Refluent Blood or Lymphe not being dewly difcharged ; 
thofe larger VefTels are neceflarily diftended between 
their intumified fides with compreft Cavities, and their 
extremities at the Arteries. Thus we may apprehend 
how a part remains intumified, under a partial Circula- 
tion , and may (when no ill Juices are joined with 
the Blood and Limphe) continue fo for fome Months, 
nay Years, as in the prefent Cafe, without any Difor- 
der to the Patient ; but on fuch Motions of the Body, 
as accelerates the motions of the Blood, at the extremi- 
ties of the Velfels, when there is a greater quantity of 
Blood imported than can be difcharged by the Veins ; 
whence a fudden intumefcence arifes and pains necefla- 
rily follow. What Aftringent Medicines avail in fuch 
like Cafes, is difficult to conceive ; but Aperitives might 
be ferviceable. Lofs of Appetite, ill Digeflion, i^c. at- 
tend Nephretical Cafes, by the Nervous communicati- 
ons of thofe of the Kidney with the Stomach (gc. 
whence the Tone of that part, as wellas the Inteflines, 
efpecially the Colon, becomes vitiated, and fiibjeca to 
frequent diforders, efpecially Vomiting and Cholick 
Pains. By Tone of that part, I mean, that proper di- 
flribution of the Nervous Ramifications within the 
part when extended, as in this Cafe and inteflinal 
Ruptures, as tliey are called, and the like : Or when 
the Nervous Ramifications are Relaxt, as m Paraliti- 
ca! Cafes, Tiie Tone of the part neceffarily becomes 
vitiated, in as much as its Nervous Diftributions aredif- 
ordered. The Contents of the Stomach and Guts not 
being dewly carried on, are apt to ferment ; the contain- 
ed Air being rarified by the natural heat, the Inteftines 
or Stomach (not being able to refill the enlargement 
of that rarified Air) gives way, and becomes very 
much diflended ; whence Colick Pains and Dlflurban- 
ces in thofe parts (bmetiines arife, as I am apt to think 
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