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becomes impervious, and render the lungs 

 by their constant accumulation and disten- 

 tion, too rigid for the great and necessary 

 purpose of respiration. 



How far this probable system of obstruc- 

 tion may come into immediate contact with 

 the judgment of others, I am yet to learn; 

 the conjecture naturally arising from a se- 

 rious and attentive investigation of the case, 

 , i . . . . 



is submitted to public opinion, as a far more 



rational mode of explanation than to trum- 

 pet or RE-ECHO an absurdity, that '' the 

 '' lungs are tob large for the chest,'* or still 

 greater, that ''foul feeding has made the 

 '' lungs fat,*' when a survey of the subject 

 shall instantly demonstrate the carcase to be 

 evidently poor. 



Whichsoever conjecture may be right re- 

 specting the cause, one opinion is universal 

 upon the cure, if it originates in a natural 

 deformity ; for, should (according to the cre- 

 dulity of former- writers) *' the lungs be too 

 *' large for the chest,'' or *' the chest too 

 *' narrow for the lungs,'' the effect being di- 

 rectly the saaie, it is not in the power of art 



