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minate fenfation is the fenfation proper to the inte- 
rnes, though in many inftances they are the feat 
of exquifite pain ; yet, in confequence of the con- 
courfe and commixture of the nervous filaments in 
ganglia , any painful difeafe feated in the inteftines, 
or in others of the vifeera contained in the abdomen » 
is lefs determinable to its particular feat, or rather 
is more apt to affect the parts contained in the ab- 
domen , not primarily affe&ed, than difeafes of a 
painful nature, which are feated in the ftomach itfelf, 
or other parts whofe nerves are unfupplied with gan- 
glions. And this leads to a natural folution of the 
caufe of that fympathy, that communion of fenfation, 
or imputation of fenfation, which fo frequently takes 
place, in the difeafes of the contained parts of the 
abdomen, from which fome writers (Linn. *) have 
very conclufively argued for the nece fifty of fuch a 
communication of the nervous filaments in ganglia 
as we contend for, from the bed anatomical autho- 
rity, and which appears to have fuch important ufes 
in the animal eeconomy, and to be the occafion of 
that fympathy or confufion of fintalion among the 
abdominal vifeera in particular y. 
* In Haller. El. Phyf. T. IV. p. 
f The folution of the problems concerning the fympathetick 
afFedtions, or content of parts, has employed the hands and pens 
of many ingenious, writers ; and if all the queftions relating to it 
were difeufled, volumes might be filled, and the fubjedt neither 
exhaufted nor underfto'od. The ingenious Dr. Whyte has with 
great acutenefs (hewn that fympathy in general is only to be ac- 
counted for from a fentient principle, feated in the fenforium 
commune , where all nerves begin, and communicate; his objec- 
tions to particular fympathics arifing from a connexion of nerves 
in ganglions feem inconclufive ; for he remarks that fuch a 
communication as is fu.ppofed in ganglia to occafion fympathy. 
