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Show Chap. X XV III. 0f t/acRim of the tiger}. 16+ .6, Chap. X :5»: 2 ii Melentery, Omemum, err. \Vhicli is allb very evident in Bruits, and NI" ticularly in a Lion, the King of them, in which I {aw many large (Hands of a reddifli Colour, and {omen/hat large, adorning the @erzrwmmu, A . thg‘geff This curious Membrane is rendred very letvrceable by Nature, in its "Mm tires : The firl't is as a common Parent, to propagate a common Integumem to all the Vifcem lodged within its Circumference. "Ft-C rum The lecond life is to cherilli and conferve all the tender Boivels and I'zf. llriiliril; (cm, within its rare embraces, left any dilturbance flrould be given to them, by the motion of the Neighbouring parts, the Abdominal Mulcles. and by force opening and relaxingit, made by the'motion of the Body, 0dr b Coughing, Vomiting, hard Riding, or by carrying a great Burden, lou syeaking or by fierce Crying, which molt commonly force down the linall p fiines' and more rarely the Caul into the Scrotum; the firlt is the Hier- hire F tlie Intellines, called Emeroccle: The other Epiplotele; and if the gilt:do gently relax the procefs of the Teritouwum, they flop in the Groin, and then the Hernia is called Boubanaccle. . . And other times, the procefs of the. (Perttonwum, is relaxed by a Flattis, Thcfcvcral vatr Recrementspafling through it into the Strotunr, whence the Hcrnra kmdmmup of "Hell erofa or Aquofa, which are more rare, but the molt common is "i=5- l;:;izralh; which is often reduced (after an Einollient and Difcutient C HA P. Bath hath been Adminillred) by a dexterous Hand, into [liclr proper Situation, the Head being laid low, and the Thighs and the hinder parts being elevated, that the Intel'tines may be put tip into the Body 'by a gentle Hand: And afterward the Groin, is to be treated With an Altringent Bath, to clole and ftrengthen the relaxed procefs of the @crzlamvmn, to prevent . the falling down of the Intefiines into the Scrotum, and Aflringent Diet 3:353:52? XXVIII. Drinks are to be advifed, and Cataplalms and l'lail‘ters are to be applied to Rupture, T/Jc Tat/Jo/qgiv (f f/Jc Pcritonasuni, ama' Unit} the Groin, with good Trullbs to {ccure the lnteflines and Caul in their of 1/» (Belly. Pl(lljliziéugilegldllgtisnany kinds of Tumours feared in, and near the Belly, D'V‘" mours ofTl" the ' ‘H‘erent forts of Lit uor, fome Aiimentary and Viral, as l'.§"'¥,‘;§§‘i€§2: Aving dil‘eoui'fed of the curious Structure and {lies of the ?erilwmum, we will now Treat of its Parhologie, and of the Cavity of the Abdomen, adjoining to it; of the feveral Dilitafcs leated in the Perilonwun, and its Confines, which are Inflamimtions, Ablccfles, Ulcers, Rup. turts, Relaxations, and divers lorts of Tumours. An Inflammation taketh its rile either from too great a quantity of Blood (in a Plethorick Body) impelled by the Arteries, into the fiibl‘tance of the q) ri/onrmun, in \\l1lCl1 the Blood is deteined all?) by too much grolsiiels, by region the Minute Veins of this Membrane, are receptive of it ; whereupon the Vital Liquor being llagnant in the narrow lnterliices of the Velll-ls (belonging to the (Perilmla'nm) growetlr diliiirited, by realon of its loll Motion, whence it acquireth a putrid dilpoliiiuu: So that the Inflammation dcgenerares into an Abl‘eel‘s, flowing from the lilppurate d 8mm Nutritim, and the herons parts of the Blood ( lecerned from its Purple l iquor ,‘ whole unquiet and unnatural putrid Particles do Corrode the tender Conipage of the 'Pcritonwimr, by which Nature deligneth to make a breach in the Munbrane (productive of an Ulcer) t0 (filth-Argo the otl‘cnlive plitrid iVlatrcr, into the Cavity of the Bell i. Tnceircor The Curative part of the Inflammation (feared in the Pelimnwum) is f,",l,"j'l"m‘"" belt accomplillied by opening a Vein, which lelleneth the Math of Blood, and promotcth its Circulation, whereby it often difchargeth the aggrieved parts of its burden, and taketh 05" the Inflammati on, whence the Ablccfs, and Ulcer receive ii flop: But if lb great a force of Blood be impelled into the Interl‘tices of the Vellels, wherein it is fometimes fiagnant; {'0 that the Circulation cannot be made good by Blood-lett ing, and the Abfcels and thC Ulcer hiiidrcd: Vulnerary Drinks are to be advifed, confilling of DeterThccaukofa ng', Exiccating, and COTrOl-Wraflng MCdlClnCS, t0 cleanfe, dry) and conRupturciiro- folldltt' [hC Ulcer. r 'ClC h Fr m - r . , a‘ghlmgfi, Sometimes the 'Pcrrtomtimz is obnomous to a Rupture, but molt commonor Rupture of L, proce's Cf ly to 3 Relaxation, when the Can] or [ntefii nes are prefl'e d down :‘f-WW' procefs of the l' two/mum, pafling down through the Abdominal into the Mufcles, and ghclgihrllg gfilbldfland from divers Rdcrements, and Bloody Water, Puru- rclrmurcs. ' lenty Matter, and Liquor refembling Fat, encircled With Membranes, and from Vil'icles of Serous Liquor, and from Lympha and Urine : Thefe various Liquors are lodged in different places; form-times between the Mufcles of the Abdomen, and the 'Peritonoeum, and in the Duplicature of the (Pentonamm, and other times between the @critwm/mt and the Omcntum, and In- tellines 3 and in the Cavity palling between the Membranes of the Caul. A 5mm"; An Abdominal Swelling may arife from a quantity of Extravafated Chyle, derivcdfi'am which being grofs, giveth a check to the motion of it through the Milky Elam-urn" Vefléls, caufed fometime by the {welling of the Melenterick Glands, )cpmprefling the laé‘teous Veins, and intercepting the courfe of the Chylcfinltlo the common Receptacle, which being impelled by the contraction o t e Diaphragme, and the Perifialtick Motion of the Guts, doth overcharge the Laéteaz with too great a quantity ; whence the tender Veflels are broken, and the Chyle forced into the Cavity of the Belly, making an Atrophy of tthXIIiIIZliirisezd: Tumour hath been dilcovered in the Abdomen, deduced firming-d, from a great f'tore of Blood, flowing out of the Terminations of the Caliac 3:33:35, and Melenteric Arteries, into the empty {paces of the Belly, where it firfl Coagulares, and then putrefieth, fliewing it lelf in a blackifli Colour, and a ' ‘ ‘ >ll. "inklilligirldngwelling of the Abdomen, is derived from a Bloody Water, taking its Origeri from hot and thin Blood, which being not perfectly leyered from the Serous and Watry parts, doth difiil through the Extreamities of the Arteries belonging to the Caul and @eritomznm, into the CaVity of the l . Belle] youno Woman about Twenty Years old, after a proper Method of Phylick, cguld not be Recovered: And the .Belly, after all Arr had been Adminillred to Reduce it, was very much Tumified, loft in fome places, and hard in others. And after the Skin, the Mulcles of the Belly, and fi'mto- Xx 72mm: |