obfervation, and the Kiftbries of Mediciri, the peculiar 
appearances that Precede'^ Attend and ' that S^rcceed evQxy 
one of thefe' marks that cofiftitilte the fort ^ becaufe thefe 
Foregoing^ ^Attending and Succeedirfg appearances make the 
whole difeafe. ' * ^ . 
This being done^he does affert, that none of thefe forts 
can happen any other way, but'by'a more violent PenTta I- 
tical motion of the Guts, a greater fluxihty of Excrements^ 
or a greater quantity of the fame, or from allthofe caufeg 
operating together* r Which he demonftrates 5 and ^^^pon 
this general propoficion, he proc^edSvto fhqWa that all the 
appearances that preceded a Diarrhea, (vp^ith which he 
begins) do nisceffarily produce thefe ' mentioned aflfeftions 
in the Guts, and in that manner as to produce all'thofe 
, other appearances that attend it, and thereafter, that rhefe 
attending , appearances . cootinumg for fome time^ muft 
needs bring along witH^ thbm all that is obferved to follow 
upon it, and generally in that order; * • • — - 
Thofe things thus demonftrated, he giyesia defcription 
of a Diarrh£(i, znd after the fame manner that he diC- 
cufs'd the Diarrh^a^ does he difcourfe of the £/Wem 
and other forts. ' ' ' ■ 
As he goes on demonftrating, aH thofe impprtanc trmhs 
from proved prOpofitions; in O^jf^ftrj^^' Mecha- 
nicks and ' the dodrin Secretions 3 he never fails to 
note the wrong eftiblifhing of any new fort, as 'he has 
occafion to explain the appeafafice. ^A^hereon they tound 
it, and where that pmfdMar^^^ 
Jtaticm m'ay'be an exarrtpla 6f tfi^'difeafe 
"" is ftill retained among Phf ficiaX^thdugh it ^ it^ origi- 
nal from a manifeft error in Anatomy, and fuppofes that 
the Liver is the receptacle of the Cliyle, and the Store- 
houfe of the Blood. \Soth' Vi?hich:?re falfe in fad. 
haviiig thus demdtiftrafed the' Nattire of thofe Difeafes, 
his next inquiry' is into the methods that have been ever 
"taken to cure them, which he reduces into fo many max- 
ims 
