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apt for Fermentation with any Acid, and thenc.e according, to the
different Genius of the Acid, different effects ace produced; let
us then imagine the Bilious Particles either in the firff Paffages,
or in the mafs of Blood, alter’d from their Natural Cra.fi$by Saline,
Acid, Muriatick, pr other Acrid Bodies, by which means
the Bile becomes feculent, perhaps not unlike ¥itriolated Tartar
; The Glands of the Liyer hence become Oh&udted, and
its due fepretion forbidden, they then fwell beyond a common
Compafs, and the Particles ruffi qua via datur iiito theLympfaa-
tick Veffels, which they muff neceffarily Diftend, and Lacerate;
it is very common to our Obfervatioh, that where ever this fer-
culent matter is deposited the part tumifip even to a foj.uti0p.0f
continuity, from whence a Yellow Liquor continually djftilk* of
a bitter Pungent taft, which is a certain Argument of its being fa-
turated with Bilious Particles.
The Kidneys likewife obftru&ed by this feculcncy, we find
the Urine to b&ImaU, and of an high Colour, n # i;unhke ^ ^
wick Mum, its fediments Yellow , apd «often times Black and
Red, the Tongue Yellow and Dry, ajGontinual Thjr-ft, Pungent
Pains all over the Body, and a general Laffitude : In tfiefp. dfTpgr
rate Circumftances Mankind lives like ;aji Amphibia» Ammah
aqd in a Deluge of Waters breathing in Air whence through
defeat of Infpiration that difficulty of breathing etvfue?,.
As to the Lymphatick Propfy it may thus happen^ the Saline
Particles of the Blood, as Was alleged before m the Tteatifepf
Confumptions, according to their different fpecies Coagulating
the Mafs of Blood, in what ever part of the Body they are hefted,
there affuredly they condenfe the Lym$ba, and render it gelatinous
like thp Whitesof Eggs, and fo consequently muff fwell
and burff the Veffels as is above recited > One thing in this
kind of Dropfy is worthy our taking notice of, that the Patient
is not difturbed with Thirft, the Urine in. quantity and quality
laudable,the Appetite rather too craving than dejedfed, no pains
invade,faye that of bearing abputfo heavy a mafs of Water, and
this fort of Dropfy, if more incident to Women, than Men ,. and
though it has hitherto been nriffaken for a Tirnpapites , it,is, truly
a
l A t f C S Sm R E , CHESHIRE, &c.
7 i
8 Dropfy of the Rentm<wm^ ;the\Lympha:dudft of .which Mem-
brane are burff, and its Glandules highly tumify’d , hence and
noothervyife enfnes the T k^ n iw y g p g g be render^ appa-
r^jit by tqe Hiftopijes.
£ ° r a confirmation I refer you to Nucky Ettmullemt*
and Junpken, From what has been faid- the caufes of the Afiitei^
and Atyfam may deduced, wherefore I ffiall not inlift
longer on their ffjtipligies, but ffiall proceed to illuftrate our Hy*
p w h e f i * j m i h e h ■ ■ ••<■■■• ‘ '
The.hr^j ffiaji be oLMr, ^hn. Leeds’, j Rachelour of Phyfick
who prtffcfod ^ ^ ^ # s ' ' : .:in ;^ T ow n v i. he waa
^wed with the Black Jaundice, upon wfei^benfued,
and Afafarpa »no endeavours were wanting to relieve him, and
no Methods of Phyfick une%’d to Cope with the Difeafe, but
S3 v#in j; generally Befov’d, and mow as generally Lamented, he
Expired -i through the whole eourle of his Diftemper , his DL
gnftiou W3 S good, hig Thifft ljttle or nothing, at whjch I Worn
der d, his-Urine but fmall, yet for Colour and Confiftence like
BwmfakkMm,vfith a Black Sediment,his.-Body was Emaciated,
and hi§ Countenance Ghaftly and Waff; towards has latter end,
aCough was very troublefome to him: His Body being opened*
thirty, fix Pints of a Yellow bitter Water was difcharged. from the
Abdomen,. there was little op none of-the Omentum remaining,
the Stomach was fope what contracted but no ways inflamed,the
Spleen retained itsNatural Colour andState,the ConglobateGlan-
dules were of a futabje Magnitude,neither fohirrousnor;tumify’d,
the Ladteal Veffels as much as I ojifecved of them no ways alter’d.
But when the Liver was expofed, its whole- fubftance was indurated,
infoifion bemg mad^;imff it ; .thoreGkhdsfii^ dffcO-
vered by^^f^^wereturgent^iCKi large ascommon HailStones,
all impleted with a feculent Graft Bilefrorm> the whole it is undeniably
apparent, this rouft be. a Bilious DropIy and Challenges
no Original, either , from the Stomach inflamed, or theConglo-
h^fie GLnds indur^ed, but only from a feculent Bile obftrudting
b.qth the( Glandule* of the Liver,; and its Lymphatick Veffels :
Hp.w the Bile becomes thus degenerated is before Explain’d,