^4 Of the manijeft Signs SOMETIMES the peftikntial Jura is mixed with the Food, and fwallowed there- with, which after fonie Delay in the Sto- mach being digefled and diflblved, lets out the imprifoned Venom to vellicate the Fibres into Reachings and convulfive Motions : And to put this altogether out of Difpute, 1 have often obferved Perfons immediately to fall lick from a State of per fed Health after eat- ing, and to throw tip their Food, in other Re- fpe&s good and wholfome, as fame what cor- rupted and poifonous. VOMITING alfo may be promoted by Scents, as well as thofe which are fetid, as fuch as are contrary, by fome particular Antipa- thy to the Nature and Conftitution of the Patient *, and this I conje&ure happens from the Harmony and Coaferit of the Organs of Smelling with the Coats of the Stomach, in- fomuch that the Stomach immediately per- ceives any Thing that ungratefully ftrikes the Neie, and rifes up again ft it. In the mean Time 1 would however traniiently make this one Remark, that as in many Cafes the Ad- miniftrationof Emeticks was pernicious, whe- ther or no Evacuation of the firft Putrefacti- on at Stomach, might not be much better encouraged upwards by Scents as, on the con-
