tible matters taken into
the stomach, which may chemically or mechanically injure its interior coat.
There is however a slighter species of inflammation of this viscus, and
perhaps of all others, which is unattended by much fever; and which is
sometimes induced by drinking cold water, or eating cold insipid food, as
raw turnips, when the person has been much heated and fatigued by exercise.
For when the sensorial power has been diminished by great exertion, and the
stomach has become less irritable by having been previously stimulated by
much heat, it sooner becomes quiescent by the application of cold. In
consequence of this slight inflammation of the stomach an eruption of the
face frequently ensues by the sensitive association of this viscus with the
skin, which is called a surfeit. See Class IV. 1. 2. 13. and II. 1. 4. 6.
and II. 1. 3. 19.

M. M. Venesection. Warm bath. Blister. Anodyne clysters. Almond soap. See
Class II. 1. 3. 17.

11. _Enteritis._ Inflammation of the bowels is often attended with soft
pulse, probably owing to the concomitant sickness; which prevents sometimes
the early use of the lancet, to the destruction of the patient. At other
times it is attended with strong and full pulse like other inflammations of
internal membranes. Can the seat of the disease being higher or lower in
the intestinal canal, that is, above or below the valve of the colon,
produce this difference of pulse by the greater sympathy of one part of the
bowels with the stomach than another? In enteritis with strong pulse the
pain is great about the navel, with vomiting, and the greatest difficulty
in procuring a stool. In the other, the pain and fever is less, without
vomiting, and with diarrhoea. Whence it appears, that the enteritis with
hard quick pulse differs from Ileus, described in Class I. 3. 1. 6. only in
the existence of fever in the former and not the latter, the other symptoms
generally corresponding; and, secondly, that the enteritis with softer
quick pulse, differs from the cholera described in Class I. 3. 1. 5. only
in the existence of fever in the former, and not the latter, the other
symptoms being in general similar. See Class II. 1. 3. 20.

Inflammation of the bowels sometimes is owing to extraneous indigestible
substances, as plum-stones, especially of the damasin, which has sharp
ends. Sometimes to an introsusception of one part of the intestine into
another, and very frequently to a strangulated hernia or r