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circulate blood. The spirit may be universally modified by the 

 same original disease, as that which finally produces death ; and 

 this modification is expressed in the changes of its phenomena, or 

 in symptoms: but the functions subservient to organic life by their 

 relation with the blood, are first impaired, and cease; and then the 

 diffused assimilating life becomes extinct. This is the usual order, 

 with but few exceptions, which belong to the examples of secondary 

 direct disease by communicated properties, possibly terminating 

 their progressive causation in death. 



