As a symptomatic phenomenon, Diarrhœa is skittering, i.e., the discharges are composed of water, intermingled with particles of imperfectly digested food; from two to six or eight discharges may thus take place, and it is an invariable precursor of constipation.

(The person to whom the joke is being told repeats the name, followed by who?)

The Paſſage from Canton to Chao-kin is by Water. At the Diſtance of five Leagues we meet with Fo-chan, the greateſt Village in the World. I call it a Village becauſe it has no Walls, nor any particular Governor, though it is happy in a great Trade, and conſiſts of more Inhabitants, and even Houſes, than Canton it being computed to contain a Million of Souls at leaſt. The Jeſuits of the Province of Japan have a fine Church there, and a numerous Flock. Twelve Leagues above Fo-chan, the River is divided into three Arms; the one comes from the North, the other runs to Chao-kin and the third to Canton.

The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy.