The hygrology, or chemico-physiological doctrine of the fluids of the human body

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I. mater fornas the greatest part of tiae chyle. 2. Oij cream , Rhicli is composed of hydrogene

3. Geme; Whicli, by the Vis vitalis, is composed of the carbune and agote os ille ingested i ood. . Eacth; sor laeteal calculi are frequently found in the receptaculum chyli, and in the coui se of the laeteal vesseis.

The reason why the chyle whicli is separated frona ingested Oegelabies, hoste nutritive principieS are, starch, the albuminous principie, Oil, vegetabie gluten and sugar ;) is of the fame nature asiliat prepared frona animal ingesta. whose alibie, or alimentary principies are, oit, jelly and animal gluten; is, that the principies of both are distatved

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164 The CHEMICO-ΡHYSIOLOGICA L Doctrine into their elements, whicli, are the same in animaland vegetable foods. Thus me cream of c te arise frona the carbone and hydrogene; and the chees o chyle, hom the carbone and agole of both animaland vegetable od. In a similar manner the sua gar of the milli and phosphoraled calx of the chyleis produced froni the admixture of Oxygene millitis baseS. Lastly, ali ille chyle is mixed with the alburni nous and gelatinous lymph in the thoracio dun, into whicli, est the lymphatic vos is of the bodyonerate themselves; thereby becoming more im- pregnated With the animal natui e, and 1endeIed

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. The chyle secreted in the breasts of puerperat WOnaen, Under the nanae of mire, constitutes the primary and most eXcellent nutriment of ali alimetits for new-born infantS.

THE ENTERIC JUICE THE limpid liquor, secreted by the cXhalent

In the linuli intestines, it is mixed With thec, me; but in the large, Willi the faeces; and When

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166 The CHEMICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL Doctrine

the inlesines are empy, it is absorbed into ille lacteal vesseis. Thc QuANΤi TY appears to be Very great, a is evident froni the amplitude and lengli, of the secretory organ ; from the immense number of secerning arteries; heat of the pari; aqueous diarrhaea; and from the Very great quantity secreteil after taking a purgative medicine. Yet there appears to be a greater quantity of thisjuice secreted in the simuli, than in the large intestines,as the rather solid consistence of the excrements of an healthy mala proVeS. The QUA LiTiEs of this juice are like those of the saliva: hence the constituent principies appearto be of the sanae nature, but tinged with bile. The UsE OP ΤHE ENTERIC JUICE, is, i. To dilute the chyine in the intestines, and to de- compound and change it into chylo.

a. To continuatly cleanse, deterge, and moistenthe intestines, especialty the large; to prevent

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of the FLUID3 of the HUMAN BODY. the excrement frona indurating into tuo compacts bala, and adhering to the intestines. SometinaeS also acrimontes are eliminaled withthe enteric juice from the blood, as would appear frona the critical diarrhaeas of dis eases,not gastric. Thus bilious flaver, meresy Venous froin the beginning, during its coui se is osten cured by diarrhaea.

THE mucus whicli lubricates the internat sur- face of the stomach, and smali and large intestines. The SECRETORY ORGAN is formed by the mu-iclparous glands, si tuaied under the villous coati of the primae viae. When abundant, it is elimi- naled illi the eXcrement of the large intestines. ONSISTENcE: In the stomach and si ali intes-ilines, thin; but in the rectum, mole copious and thic ker than in the nostriis. Iis ollier proper

ttes agi eo Rith the mucus of the nostriis.

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the c me may descend more eastly throughtheis mali intestines, and the eXcrementstrough the large. a. It prevenis the injury of the sensibie sursace of the stomach and intestines frona acrid and spirituous f oods, or acridity of the bile ; hen eheart-burn, tor na, and tenesmus, is this mucus be eliminaled by drastic purges.

large intestineS.It ARisSs frona the remaius of ingesta, Ubicli ille Uires coarices naturae, Or digestive poriers nature, are unable to convert into chyle; and has

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of the FLUID s of the HUMAN AODY.mixed with it the excrementitio us portion of the hile, and mucus of the large intestines. The alvine excrement is si st FOUNDin the in- Iesinum caecum ; for stercoraceous fetid scybala arefrequently deleo ted in the appendix of the colon. The SMELL of excrement, even of the mosthealthy man, is very dis agre ea ble, and peculiarto the species of animal; more intolerable in manand carnioorous, than in herbivorous animais, asthe horse, &c. The corruption os cow dung isso sim ali, that an odorous water is distilled frontit, called the aqua millesorum. Human CXCrementdried sor a long time, emiis a smeli almost like that os ambergris. In putrid di roses of men, and in primes, iis fetor is very detestabie, star p, and ostensive; froni being mixed with the volatile

aikali, arising frona putridity.

TASTE . fatuous. Those who have labourediander the pica sercophaga, and have eat humane X crement, declare that it is sive et .

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the large intestines, but by degrees it beComes like a thicla electuary in the extremity of the rectum, and is pressed through the narro sphincter of the intestine in a cylindric fortia. Is thes d be not weli digessted, the excrement descenes lain, and in greater quantity. Faeces retained longin the bo eis, forna, as it Uere, bard and drys obala. IisSPEci Fic GRAVI TY is so light, asto p im

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I. Mater, Whicli constitutes the grealest pari soris hen distilled by a sto xv gentie sire, it emiis sogreat a quantity os fetid Water, that it is reduced to a tentb part of iis weight. Thiswater is limpid and itis pid, yet has a stercora-

a. An o Grous fetid principis, whicli assedis thenostriis, and passes into the water, during distillation. 3. Infammabis carbonaled air, oblatned frona dis lilled excrement, Whicli upora being set sire io, burns wilh a bluisa green fame for in this manner, flatus emitted frona the anus ra thessanae os a candie, ta kes sire, and fies ossio ards the bach.

4. The remains of the ingesed jfori Thus in the faeces of Carnivorous animais there is ostende te fled the so und si bres of tendons; in ille album graecum os dogs, friable fragments of

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1 a The CHEMICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL Doctrine bones ; and in those, of herbivorous animais, the fragments of the lain, and membranes os grapes. The germinating power has not bella destroyed in seeds, which have been swallovied hole by man or any other animal. In the excrements of the Tenea Or molli, the colour of the woes predominales ; the red colour oflhe sorgus in the excrements of Italian rusties;

ation of the Elephant: and the black matteros swallowed iron, in the alvine faeces of tho Stork. Lastly, the scybala os metat workers, are sonaetimes covered Mith a mining leaden

Crust.

s. remaliis of tbe imguiliste humours. For thealvine saeces have miXed Uilli them, First, The excrementitious pari Ofthe bile, Whose nature it is to indurate very much, and lingethe eXcrement of a yellow coloui, heiace itfornas the colouring principie of the faeces.