stomach._ 3. _Action of the intestines. Irritative motions connected
with these._ 4. _Effects of repletion._ 5. _Stronger action of the
stomach and intestines from more stimulating food._ 6. _Their action
inverted by still greater stimuli. Or by disgustful ideas. Or by
volition._ 7. _Other glands strengthen or invert their motions by
sympathy._ 8. _Vomiting performed by intervals._ 9. _Inversion of the
cutaneous absorbents._ 10. _Increased secretion of bile and pancreatic
juice._ 11. _Inversion of the lacteals._ 12. _And of the bile-ducts._
13. _Case of a cholera._ 14. _Further account of the inversion of
lacteals._ 15. _Iliac passions. Valve of the colon._ 16. _Cure of the
iliac passion._ 17. _Pain of gall-stone distinguished from pain of the
stomach. Gout of the stomach from torpor, from inflammation.
Intermitting pulse owing to indigestion. To overdose of foxglove. Weak
pulse from emetics. Death from a blow on the stomach. From gout of the
stomach._

1. The throat, stomach, and intestines, may be considered as one great
gland; which like the lacrymal sack above mentioned, neither begins nor
ends in the circulation. Though the act of masticating our aliment belongs
to the sensitive class of motions, for the pleasure of its taste induces
the muscles of the jaw into action; yet the deglutition of it when
masticated is generally, if not always, an irritative motion, occasioned by
the application of the food already masticated to the origin of the
pharinx; in the same manner as we often swallow our spittle without
attending to it.

The ruminating class of animals have the power to invert the motion of
their gullet, and of their first stomach, from the stimulus of this
aliment, when it is a little further prepared; as is their daily practice
in chewing the cud; and appears to the eye of any one, who attends to them,
whilst they are employed in this second mastication of their food.

2. When our natural aliment arrives into the stomach, this organ is
simulated into its proper vermicular action; which beginning at the upper
orifice of it, and terminating at the lower one, gradually mixes together
and pushes forwards the digesting materials into the intestine beneath it.

At the same time the glands, that supply the gastric juices, which are
necessary to promote the chemical part of the process of digestion, are
stimulated to discharge their contained fluids, and to s