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in very fmall Dofes, are of fo much Ufe in fucli Cafes ; 
though it be certainly true, that all If rong ftimuiating 
Purgatives are very hurtful and improper. • 
II. But to return to our Cafe, there was no Rufus's 
or Flatus*s upwards or downwards, nor Borhorygmi^ 
notwithflanding this Diftenfion of the Belly and Infla- 
tion of the Guts. 
This, I think, fhews' very plainly that the Guts 
had loft all Motion, and were Paralytic by a total 
Want of Bile only, as much as if their Nerves had 
been totally obftruAed : For had any Motion remained 
in them, whether the natural and regular periftaltic 
Motion,’ or a preternatural convullive one, the Con- 
tradion of them either Way, would have propelled the 
contained Air from one Place to another, and would 
have occafioned Borhorygmi^ or would have expelled 
a Part of it upwards or downwards, when Nature 
had fo much need of it to relieve the diflended Guts^ 
and Art had contributed to that Intention by Clyfters 
and Purgatives given. 
Which ferves to illuftrate what has been faid above, 
cpncerning the defedive and convulfive Motion of the 
Guts in Hyflerick Cafes, where, through a Defed in 
the Quantity or Quality of the Bile^ or from both 
thefe, the Motion of the Guts becomes defective, ir- 
regular or convulfive, but is not totally loft through 
a total Want of it, as in this Cafe. 
III. He never went to Stool after he received the 
Wound, and the ftrongeft Purgatives and Clyfters that 
could be reafonably given, had no Effed. 
This feems alfo to be owing to the Want or total 
Lofs of the periftaltic • Motion and plainly fhews, 
that the ftrongeft purging Stimulus has not the Power 
to 
