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and kidneys, all fupplied with nerves from the inter- 
coJtaiSy have been cut in pieces without the animal’s 
ieeming to feel pain. And what is lefs liable to ex- 
ception, operations and difeafes in the kidneys, and 
ulcers in the lungs, fliew their feelings not to be ex- 
quiiite *. 
The ftomach, which has a very large portion of 
the eight pair of nerves bellowed upon it, by ligature* 
or this nerve, lofes its fallibility and contradive pow- 
er fo perfectly, that the food neither paffes down the 
oelophagus, nor is concoded in the ftomach, but, by 
lpontaneous corruption there, puts on the appearance 
Of the faeces themfelves in the great inteftines +. This 
proves what was aliened concerning the eighth pair, 
3 l ^'ng a fenfory nerve 1 and ’tis in confequence of 
the fallibility which the ftomach derives by means 
ot this nerve, as well as its own ftrudure, that the 
ftomach becomes the principal feat of hunger- 
“ And ( t0 ll, c the words of Dr. Whytt ±1 as ft is 
" ade '- ced with a mere difagreeable fenfation, when 
“ we h ave wanted food for any confiderable time, than 
“ t!ie gu ts, lo like wife it is more fenlible of an ao-ree- 
“ ? ble feebn S fr° m S ratefui fo ° d . and in thefe refpeds 
‘ J5. " la y ;’ e laid to be more fenfible than the inte- 
“ irics ' Baron Haller has obferved that parts which 
have nerves from ganglions are not fo diftindly pain- 
„ u ! as ol " ers > ‘‘ ut anima non adeo accurate locum 
do.entem diftinguat, fed obiter utcunque, et cutn 
a!,c l aa latitudine §.» And this confuted indeter- 
* • Irritab * et Whytt. Path. Eflays. 
t bee Vieuflens, Bruni, Morgagni, Haller.. 
1 t atn. .Lfl. p. 135. 
S El ™- %f. T. IV. p. 407. 
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