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Show \i8 Conclusion (f tbs First Part. Conclusion of the First Part. 1 19 there was an abscess in the right auricle of the heart, containing about an of the body.---The absorbents are always taking up the thinner part of the ounce of pus, and surrounded with coagulated laminated blood to a consi- bile; but on particular occasions, such as a gall-ston e sticking in the common duct, and preventing the flow of bile into the intestine, the gall- _ d ' derable thickness. Dropsies may destroy in a number of different ways-The terror of the pin: may combine with the debilityofthe body,in the first species ofdropsy, a; t e patient may be quickly cut oiffrom this cause. In (edema ofthe limbs,t c cu- ticle frequently ruptures atlast, andinflammation ofthe cutisunderneath is com- monly the consequence. Vv'hether inflammation takes place from this cause, or whether it takes place in consequence of scarifieations,e1thcr mortifieation takes place, which is commonly fatal, sometimes even in three days, or the in]flammation,without any mortification,is in thishabit ofbody accompaniedwiti such irritation as to destroy. The hydrocephalus kills by the too'great pres- sure it makes on the substance of the brain. The hydrotliorax kills by com- pressing the substance of the lungs in such a manner as to prevent respiration atlast. If the ascites does not kill by increasing the general .Clelllty of the body, preventing sleep, digestion of the food, and enerctse,_and in a great mlea- sure impeding the action of the lungs ; the Operation which is performer to relieve the patient, kills at last, by producmg peritoneal inflammation-The chief circumstance in the diseases we have mentioned is, that the lymphatics do not take up the morbidlyaecumulatcd fluid: that this frequently arises from some defect in the action of those vessels. We collect from this Circumstance, that medicines now and then stimulate them to absorption, and the morbidly accumulated fluids are removed. At other times, though no medicine whatever has been exhibited, the whole water of an ascites has bladder and the pori biliarii become uncommonly distended with the bile, and the lymphatics, to relieve this distension, absorb the bile from their ca- vities, carry it into the blood-vessels, and produce jaundice. After a woman has lain-in some days, she is sometime s taken with shivering, and other symptoms of fever; her milk disappear s, the fever goes on, and she dies. On opening the body, the cavity of the abdomen has on such occasions bepn found full of a whey-coloured fluid mixed with laminze of coagulated white matter. The fever, by many, has in this case been attributed to the absorption of the milk from the breast, and its being carried into the blood-vessels; believing the appearances they saw in the abdomen to be from the milk, they have given it the name of depot du fair. stantly found on inflamed surfaces. rated or filled up; the bone, of course, contains more solid matter, and is heavier than natural. I suppose this to be owing to the lymphatics not counteracting sufficiently the arteries, in removing the earth, in their usual proportion to its being deposited by the arteries. Most frequently, how- ever, this is the effect of inflammation of bones. . In the second place, diseases may arise from the lacteals and lymphatics taking up too much of the healthy and apparently sound solids and fluid: 0 I have seen the same appearances in virgins, who have died in consequence of the general irritation of fever becoming local, and by metastasis transferred to the abdomen. I have seen the same appearances in the dead bodies of men from the same cause. been removed in three days, from some stimulus in the constitution itself, ~ . ' given to those vessels. It sometimes happens that the eancelli and caVities of bones are oblite- I do not contend that the milk, in this case, is not absorbed; but I believe that milk would do no mischief in the blood-vessels. The appearances in the abdomen are peculiar to the peritoneal inflammation, and would have taken place if the patient had been a male instead of a female. The whey-coloured fluid is the fluid of surfaces increased in quantity, and mixed with pus; and the curdled matter is the coagulable lymph very con- After labour, the cavity of the abdomen is in part debilitated, from the great change it has undergone in passing from a state of great tension to a state of great flaccidity; and if the woman catches cold, or receives infection, the mischief falls on the abdomen, as the weaker part; just as a person liable to rheumatism or gout, or catarrli or diarrhea, on catching cold, is seized with these different complaints. There is another fluid, which the lymphatics also, on particular occasions , take up, and carry into the blood: I mean the urine. I am perfectly confident of this, from attending to what has happened to myself on a great variety of occasions. I have had the strongest calls to make water, and felt |