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different Stimuli , and even from the different Degrees 
of the Stimulus in each of them. The Stimulus , 
viz. of indigefted Food, Fruits, and the like, differs 
very much from the Stimulus of Gall. The firft Sort 
is confined to the Stomach and Intefines : In which 
Cafe, the Difeafe is often a Cure to it felf ; whereas the 
Stimulus of Gall is greater, and the Caufe is more per- 
manent and feldorn carries off it felf. The Degree of the 
Stimulus may be determined by fome other concomi- 
tant Symptoms of Slime, Glaire , &c. But when the 
Stimulus is occafioned by the Piles , an Ulcer, or a 
Stricture in the Guts, it is vaftly more Violent, and 
much departs from the common Cure of a Loofenefs, 
whereby Phyficians are often fubjefted to fatal Errors, 
and grofs Mifapplications of their Medicines. 
The Watry Loofenefs produced by the other im- 
mediate Caufe, is indeed deplorable ; becaufe a Me- 
thod of Curing it is not commonly known. It is not 
only as a Principal, but it is a Second, in the Beginning, 
at the Ending, and in the intermediate Times of all 
other Difeafes, and even in old Age, when Nature is 
fubmitting to the Power of Death j when Phyficians 
call it a Colliquative Loofenefs, becaufe it feems to 
melt away the Flefh of the Sick. * Petrus Salius Di- 
verfus , a moil approved Phyfician, affirms it to be 
vain for a Phyfician to attempt the Cure of it. Ca- 
rolus Pifo , who endeavours to explain it, and the rnoft 
fagacious Laz. Riverius, after trying all the common 
Methods, give us no better Hopes of a Cure. 
It is now manifeft why a Loofenefs, that in all out- 
ward Appearance is one and the fame thing, and pro- 
mifes to fubmit to the fame Remedy, is vaftly different 
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* Pag. 189. lib, de Pelle* 
