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predisposed to disease, because there is no state which does not 

 somewhere find a relation capable of producing change with some 

 or other external. Thus all bodies are predisposed to disease and 

 death by the relation of their properties with arsenic; nearly the 

 same thing may be said of the plague, of morbid poisons, &c. But it 

 is proper to confine the use of the term predisposition to those 

 states which have a relation productive of disease with natural and 

 habitual properties, or with those to which the same subject at other 

 times, and the rest of the species, may be regularly or occasionally 

 exposed without the supervention of disease. 



