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making its efforts here (a^ elsewbere) for a 

 natural discharge, is obsttucted by the mass 

 of filth caked upon the surface, as before 

 explained ; and becomes, in the course of 

 time, too viscid and substantial to be again 

 absorbed and carried into the circulation. 

 This is palpably the state of the case ; and 

 Nature, said by Bartlet to be deficient 

 in her own office, is not so but upon com- 

 pulsion ; the constant flow of perspirable 

 inatter to the parts so evidently constructed, 

 totally overpower every eftbrt of nature ; 

 and, from the accumulation of matter, the 

 vessels certainly become inadequate to the 

 task of conveying treble the proportion 

 for which they were intended : the extre- 

 mities being by these means overloaded and 

 distended, the contents not only become, 

 from their stagnation, putrid and corrosive^ 

 but at length, by their acrimonious quality, 

 perforate the integuments in a foetid ichor ; 

 ^nd, by ^ particular sharpness in its cuta- 

 neous oozing, gives a callosity or hardness to 

 the edges of the apertures, small as they are, 

 constituting, in this disease^ a greater or less 

 degree of inveteracy, according to the state 

 and temperament of the bJood at the time of 

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