If any Part of the Intestines, the Cavity of the Guts is closed up, whatever may have occasioned it, the Course or Descent of the Food they contain is necessarily stopped; in which Case it frequently happens, that that continual Motion observed in the Guts of a living Animal dissected, and which was intended to Detrude, or force their Contents downwards, is propagated in a directly contrary Manner, from the Guts towards the Mouth.
"Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health"
Samuel Auguste David Tissot