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after Death, and arifeth from the Spring, or Elater of 
the Air included,' getting the better of its Antagonifl 
Spring, or Elater of the mufcular Fibres of the Sto~ 
mach and Guts^ which have no longer the Afliflance 
of the Blood and Spirits to contrad them, and keep 
up their periftaltic Motion. But the Inflation and 
Diftenflon here fpoken of, was feveral Days before. 
Death, and, as I have been told, the very next Day after 
he received the Wound, though the Pulfe was appa- 
rently flrong and equal, and therefore a Defed of Blood 
and Spirits not to be fufpeded : And therefore it may 
be juftly concluded, that the Influx of the Gall inta. 
the Cavity of the Guts^, is as neceffary to the Strength 
of their Contradion and Perfedion of their periftaltic 
Motion, as that of the Blood and Spirits into their 
Sides'^ and that thefe three are the conjund Caufes of 
this Motion in Health, which would be defedive by the 
total Want of any of them. 
Hence we fee that in Scyrrhofities of the Llver^, 
where the Secretion,., and therefore the Excretion of the 
Bile is more or lefs defedive and in the yaundke-t 
where, by fome Obftrudion in the Biliary Dudls 
after Secretion, a Part of it is forced back, and regur- 
gitates into the Bloody and very little of it is thrown 
into the Guts : I fay, in thofe Cafes we obferve an 
uncommon Diftenfion in the Guts^ and Coftivenefs ^ 
which, if the Cafe proves incurable, terminates in an 
Acites, or Dropfy, in the Cavity of the Belly. 
It may alfo be worth while to enquire, whether 
that which is commonly called an Hyfteric, or ner- 
vous Cholic, generally attended. with a lelfer Degree 
o-f fuch like Diftenftons, , with Flatus'* s and Borhoryg- 
miy 1 fay, whether this Diftemper, wherein the anh 
