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ferted beneath the cuticle or fwallowed into the ftomach ; that 

 is, as they were formed by certain morbid actions of the ex- 

 tremities of the veflels, they have the power to excite fimilar 

 morbid actions in the extremities of other veflels, to which they 

 are applied ; and thefe by fympathy, or aflbciations of motion^ 

 excite fimilar morbid actions in diftant parts of the fyftem, with- 

 out entering the circulation ; and hence the blood of a patient 

 in the fmall-pox will not give that difeafe by inoculation to others. 

 When the new fibres or veflels become again abforbed into 

 •the circulation, the inflammation ceafes ; which is promoted, 

 after fufficient evacuations, by external ftimulants and bandages : 

 but where the action of the veflels is very great, a mortification 

 of the part is liable to enfue, owing to the exhauftion of fenfori- 

 al power ; which however occurs in weak people without much 

 pain, and without very violent previous inflammation ; and, like 

 partial paralyfis, may be efteemed one mode of natural death 

 of old people, a part dying before the whole. 



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