f ) 
Was this Suppofuion as certain as 'tis generally re* 
ceiv’d, I Ihou’d not prefume to advance chat there is 
no fuch thing as an Antipertftaltick Motion of the In- 
teftins; nor that the Miferere mti is ofrner a violent 
Contradlion of the Abdominal Mufcles, than a Stoppage 
or Inverfion of the Inteftins, as 'tis fuppos’d. 
So laying afide all Prevention, let it be granted that 
this Difeafe is a violent Contradion of the Abdominal 
Mufcles, as I have already fuppos’d it, caus’d by the 
Redundancy of the Inceftins or tlieir Contents. Then 
comparing the Symptoms of this Difeafe, with thofe 
of the different Kinds of Hernias, vve (hall find by the 
Analogy of the Parts, Reafon and repeated Experience, 
that the Chordapfas, fo call’d by Cdfns, is a Difeafe in 
which the Inteftins and Omentum \ at other Times the 
Pancreas or Spleen ; nay, even the Mcfentery it felf arc 
forc’d through the Diaphragma into the Thorax. 
All thefe tender Parcs being flrongly comprefs’d, by 
the continual Motion of this Mufcle, muff by confe- 
quence caufe the fame Accidents as in the Buhonocele 
or com pleat Hernia, there being no difference in thefe 
two Cafes ; but that the firft is a ffrangling of the In* 
teflin by the Diaphragm, and the latter a choaking of 
the Intefiins by the Abdominal Mufcles. 
One Example of the many of the like Nature, that 
I can produce, will much confirm this Affertion, and 
may ferve to convince any Perfbn that is impartial. 
The Cafe is this: A Gentleman that came to Town 
yefterday was Sevennight in good Health, meeting with 
fome Friends, drank a great deal of new bottled Oat- 
Ale, after fome Pints of Wine. Thefe Liquors fer- 
mented fo violently in his Stomach and Inteftins ; that 
he was taken with a violent Cholick the fame Night. 
In the morning an Apothecary was fent for, who 
adminiftred a Clyfter, and took fome Ounces of Blood 
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