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that which paffes down first, comes up first again to he Chewed. If thisFaculty leavehim it significs Sickncls, and he is nevcr well till it return.
He is about 20 Years ofAge, and was always thus since he can remember.
His Falber doesso sometimes, and in small Qaantiiies, but nothing like tothis. He was formerly bred up in ihe Mines, but now he is a Day-La-bourer, and of tolerable Sense and Reason.
I haveknown several in London, that do not fall to throw up an 111 -Tastedand bitter Maß, half anHour or an Hour after Fccding, and that to theirgreat Dilgust : but in true Rumination it returns Pleasant, and they Chew itehe sccond timc with Dclight.
XXIX. In May, or June 1700. A Labouring Min of MidJle-Agc, at
Stanton (7 Miles trom Bury) had for many Days rogether so inordinate an «• 16+.Appetite, that 1 had it attefbed to me from an Eye-Witncß, that he eat up S9 *'an ordinary LegofVeal roafted at a Meal. He would cat Sow Thistlcs,and divers otherHcrbsas greeddy, during the time his lasted, asthe
Beaststhat are wont to use soch Food; and all he could get was little enoughto fätisfy his Hunger. I am told he vöided divers Worms, as long and asbig about as an ordinary Tobacco. Pipe. After which his Appetite dcchn’dby degrees, till it came to be of a comnion Rate with that of others. Hecannot do so good a Day’s Work now as he was wont, but has almostrecover’d his wonted Strength again.
XXX. A Minister in Yorkjire was troubled with aCough, and other Miß f»e Order cs*.ichiefs; for Reliefagainst which he took a J urney to Lind.n, and that, for ’j’j/.sspsjjthe mostpart, on Foot: He liv’d not above a Fortnight after he came up. Sampson.». 10;.’In his Sickncss he was much addicted to drink Brandy, which hasten’d his^.' 4 ^
Death. We observ’d his Limbs to be much macerated, his Kelly was Swell’d
with some inequality, especially intheTract of the Right Museies: A const-derable Quantity of Watet was taken out of it; his Guts inflam’d, and ex-tended witÜWind; his Gall very Viseid ; his Lungs inflam’d, and besetwith divers Glandules, The Order of his Beweis were Invcrted ; his Liver,which was very large, lay in the Lese Hypochondre, and his Spleen in theRight; the Cone of his Heart was on the Right side, and accordingly theLarger and Thinner Vtntricle was found on the Lest; and the Thick one,which in others is on the Lest side, was in him on the Right. The GreatArtery Descended on the Right side, and the Vena Cava Ascendtd by bis Li~ver on the Lest. The Oesophagus descended to the first Orifice of the Sto-mach on the Right-side, which madethe Pylorus and Entrance of the Pan-creas be on the Lest, and the first Flexure of the Small Guts to be towardsthe Right: So that the beginning of the Colon, with its Appendicula, lay atthe Lest Os Ilion, and the Flexura Sigmvidaa, towards the Right. This In-verted Situation of his Bowels had not any evident Infiuenceupon his Difi-cases and Death. He was about 30 Years of Age, aMarried Man, had se-veral Children, was of a Middle Stature, Healthful till toward the satterend of his time : He had no Prominency on his Lest fide, more thun
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