Principiò cœlum, ac terras, campofque liquentes, Earth, on whofe lap a thoufand nations tread, And Ocean, brooding his prolific bed, Night's changeful orb, blue pole, and filvery zones, One mind inhabits, one diffufive Soul Wields the large limbs, and mingles with the whole. VOL. II. THE THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1801. T. Bentley, Printer, Boit Court, Fleet Street, CONTENTS. XXXVI. The Periods of Difeafes. XXXVII. Of Digeftion, Secretion, Nutrition. ZOONOMÍA, SECT. XXX. PARALYSIS OF THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS. 1. Bile-dutis lefs irritable after having been flimulated much. 2. Jaundice from paralyfis of the bile-ducis cured by electric fbacks. 3. From bile-ftones. Experiments on bile-flones. Oil vomit 4. Palfy of the liver, two cafes. 5. Scirrhofity of the liver. 6., Large livers of geefe. II. Paralyfis of the kidneys. III. Story of Prometheus. 1. FROM the ingurgitation of fpirituous liquors into the ftomach and duodenum, the termination of the common bile-duct in that bowel becomes ftimulated into unnatural action, and a gre.ter quantity of bile is produced from all the fecretory veffels of the liver, by the affociation of their motions with those of their excretory ducts; as has been explained in Section XXIV. and XXV. but as all parts of the body, that have been affected with ftronger ftimuli for any length of time, become lefs fufceptible of motion, from their natural weaker ftimuli, it follows, that the motions of the fecretory veffels, and in confequence VOL. II. B |