264 Sir Everard Home’s Appendix , &c. 
On opening the body, the stomach contained mucus tinged 
with blood, and its internal membrane was inflamed ; the 
duodenum had its internal surface universally inflamed, the 
same appearance in a less degree was met with in the jeju- 
nium and ilium, and more strongly marked in the colon than 
in the ilium. 
The facts which I have now adduced, afford sufficient proof 
of the action of the colchicum autumnale upon the different 
parts of the body, being through the medium of the circula- 
tion, and not in consequence of its immediate effects upon 
the stomach and intestines. 
