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^ columns, to return the circulating fluids 



^ from the extremities. Hence swelling in 



^ the legs of horses may be easily accounted 



' for, from a partial stagnation of the blood 



^ and jucies in the finer vessels, where the 



^ circulation is most languid ; and especially 



^ where there is a want of due exercise, and 



' a proper muscular compression upon the 



^ vessels to push forward the returning blood, 



* and propel the inert or half-stagnating 



^ fluid throuo'h their vessels.'' This is one 



reason (where a reason is wanting and must 



be obtained), and is quoted entirely for the 



service of those who require 710 other. But, 



as many may wish to receive more satisfac- 



tory information upon the subject it will be 



necessary to aftbrd it a nicer elucidation. 



Indeed it cannot be supposed that any 

 reader possessing the smallest degree of ra- 

 tional conception, will fall into this ridicu- 

 lous idea, and implicitly believe nature has 

 prevented her own laws, by appropriating to 

 certain offices vessels inadequate to the pur- 

 poses for which they were formed. That the 

 vessels are small in the extremities must be 

 acknowledged ; that the contents are pro- 



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