Rational Pharmaceutics, Part 1

...consists of blood-bearing vascular networks original: "sanguiferorum", referring to vessels that carry blood, page 26. This is expressed more clearly in the Table illustration than in the description. The middle layer is fleshy, containing two orders of fibers: straight and circular, page 27. Their use is investigated, same page. The movement of the intestines occurs through fleshy fibers, along with their instinct and irritation, page 28. The outermost layer of the intestines is described, page 29. Vessels and ducts pertaining to the intestines, same page. Innumerable arteries and veins with very thick networks belong to these parts, page 30. Their use is explained, page 31. Concerning the large intestines, in which the seat of the iliac passion a severe and painful intestinal obstruction is mostly found, same page. Explanations of the figures in which the membranes, fibers, vessels, and glands belonging to the aforementioned internal organs are expressed, page 32 to 36.

SECTION II. CHAPTER I.

On Vomiting.

How the stomach and esophagus are affected in vomiting, page 37. By which fleshy fibers this emetic spasm is performed, page 38. Vomiting is a convulsive movement, same page. How it differs from other spasms, and especially from purging original: "Catharsi"; induced bowel movements through the lower parts, page 39. Its immediate cause is a violent explosion of spirits in the fibers of the fleshy layer, page 40. The spirits enter into such explosions when they are greatly irritated, same page. Emetic irritation in the stomach happens because of unsuitable things taken by mouth, or things generated in the stomach, or things poured there from elsewhere: and vomiting produced because of such triggers original: προφάσεις (prophaseis); the external or justifying causes for a condition is called idiopathic a condition that arises spontaneously or from a direct cause within the organ itself, page 41 and 42. Or, the irritation causing vomiting is inflicted in other places and affects the stomach through the passage of the nerves, page 43. These places are either nearby, namely, both openings of the stomach;